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User Agent
Politeness and Tobots.txt Directives
Tips
Jybebot IPs

User Agent

Our useragent is Jybebot. This should be indicated clearly in your server access logs, and should also include a URL to reach this page.

It is possible that other bots are masquerading as us. Please see our IP list(link) to see where Jybebot runs from.

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Politeness and Tobots.txt Directives

We scrupulously respect the Robots Exclusion Standard If there are directories/pages on your sites that you would like to exclude from spidering, please add Disallow directives for those paths.

In addition we also respect the Yahoo Slurp extension Crawl-delay directive. If you see us spidering you too quickly, please increase the crawl-delay. In most cases, this will never be required.

You may add a Crawl-delay: x.y" directive, where "x.y" is a gap between successive bot accesses. This maps approximately to the number of seconds between accesses to your site.

This number ranges from 0 to 10. Please start with a small number like 0.5 and increase as appropriate.

An example:
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 0.5

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Tips

  • Place the robots.txt at the root level of your domain eg; if your site is www.site.com then the robots file should be locatable at www.site.com/robots.txt
  • Check your syntax. Google provides a great set of tools for testing your robots file. Please check them out at Google's Webmaster Tools.
  • We will follow jybebot specific directives, and failing that * directives. We do not follow the instructions for googlebot, slurp or other spiders.
  • Once you update your robots file, it might take Jybebot a day or so to catch up. Please be patient.
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Systems Guru

  • Place the robots.txt at the root level of your domain eg; if your site is www.site.com then the robots file should be locatable at www.site.com/robots.txt
  • Check your syntax. Google provides a great set of tools for testing your robots file. Please check them out at Google's Webmaster Tools.
  • We will follow jybebot specific directives, and failing that * directives. We do not follow the instructions for googlebot, slurp or other spiders.
  • Once you update your robots file, it might take Jybebot a day or so to catch up. Please be patient.
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