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Originally posted by andy_jacko google seems to be going mad on a customers site, its used 1.5gb of transfer in a couple of weeks, is there a way to slow down google, or limit the ammount of time it returns or anything. help regards andy

1.5GB? that's about £4.

Margins must be tight in his business.

Lots of people would happily pay G**gle 10 times that to visit more often and hoover up more pages. Ask him/her how many customers he/she could send a mailing to for that price - then tell him how many visitors G**gle gets per

couple of weeks

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I'd say, explain to your client why it is money well spend (invested might be better terminology)

I seem to recall something about Gift-horses and Mouths? - anybody know?

Yes, there is a way - ban the Googlebot in your htaccess file - course the site will drop out of the G**gle index in due course but he'll save £4 every couple of weeks.