Google bots attacking "thin" sites
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I've been having tremendous trouble keeping my "thin" sites up on a very robust dedicated server at Servint. Too many wp-cron.php and MySQL queries and Googlebot crawls have overloaded my server's RAM & CPU at least 5-6 times every day for many weeks now, and my EPN income has basically dropped to toast as a result of traffic loss.
I solved the wp-cron.php problem with a DISABLE and then re-enable-through-staggered-cron-jobs strategy, but today my loads were worse than ever, and this is what I heard from Servint.
According to Servint, myself and a number of other people with "thin" sites are getting slammed by Google's image bot, which is now recrawling every time a new image loads, effectively stopping traffic for anyone with autoblog sites with lots of live image reloads.
It is appears to be a deliberate, not unintentional, tactic by Google to bring down thin-style and Mage-style autoblogs. Servint is suggesting I put a hard block on Google's imagebot, hoping that it will not also block SE traffic to the long tail eBay keywords associated with each auction. Any advice is welcome, thanks
Sal
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