MSN Bot gone wild

[wilber]

is it just me or has the MSN bot gone wild and taking up all the resources on my server?

[geek]

They hardly spend time on my site but when they do come they come like there is no tomorrow. It does not follow the robot.txt file either.

[phpmotion]

They must have recently changed something because it is scouring the site more than ever now and I found that kind of strange, i see I'm not the only one.

[wilber]

Bing is probably not living up to the expectations they put out so they are trying to index everything now.

[clipshare]

Maybe MSN / Bing found something good about your site and decided to give it a go, you can only benefit from the extra exposure I think.

[geek]

I saw it once for a couple of days straight and then it disappeared. maybe it takes time on your site and leaves after.

[youtube]

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to have MSN index my site since so few people come from there.

[geek]

Even if it still just sends a couple of visitors its still worth it because those might be buyers.

[wilber]

That is true and it just takes the one but the chances are less likely. I get most of my hits from Google.

[phpmotion]

No other search engine can really compare to the results that Google gives, but a lot of people still use MSN so don't discount them yet.