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    • KJI
      KJI last edited by

      I want moz to crawl when there are less people on the site

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      • holly_haymaker
        holly_haymaker last edited by

        Hi there!

        Rogerbot can't actually be told to crawl at a specific time. However, if you're finding that he is crawling your site too aggressively you could set up a crawl delay in your robots.txt file to set the number of seconds between requests to the same server.

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