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Hello, You can add a crawl delay to your robots.txt file. It would look something like this: User-Agent: rogerbot Crawl-Delay: 5 (time is in seconds between page requests) Hope that helps! Kenny

Thanks for the good points, we are going to trial out building our own in-house SEO team with local staff + outsource staff, but under careful management, I will implement a strong approval, auditing and monitoring process. I think the problems arise when you just let people go free and do anything, by setting them what task to be performed in details, what to do and what not to do with local or outsource staff who are referred, I think that would remove most of the risk of blackhat SEO occurring. - At the same time, I am going to dump our SEO company for someone who is transparent with their work without a commitment. I think your right about contracts, whatever these guys say, you wont know if they are good at their work until you get started. And you need that option to drop (like I am about to with our current SEO). I will check out the companies featured on SEOmoz community and your recommendations, I think a SEO community referral is much more objective than the crap out their on topseos.com and the web in general. If you have anymore recommendations for SEO companies, I would love it.

Good points, we are going to dump our SEO company and choose one without a contract and who will be transparent. Thanks for the good advice.