In the last month (April) Googlebot has used up over 130Gb of
bandwidth from my server!  This is really excessive and totally out of
the ordinary.

How big is the site?
Are you showing alot of big images etc.?
(Or maybe even huge PDFs?)

Are you sure it's the real 'googleBot' and not a spoof?

One step you can take is to request a change of Googlebot's crawl rate
of your site using Google Webmaster Tools:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=48620

To investigate the cause of this increased activity, take a look at
your logs and see if Googlebot is crawling any duplicate URLs. As
JohnMu suggested, these may include URLs containing session IDs or
other parameters not necessary for indexing. Examples of how this
issue can be caused and resolved are documented in the Help Center:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=76329

As Autocrat suggests, you may also want to confirm that the busy bot
is indeed Googlebot. You can find instructions for doing that here:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-to-verify-goog...

For more help with your particular site, feel free to post back here
with your URL so members of the group can take a look.

- Wysz

On May 22, 3:46 pm, JohnMu wrote: