Massive Hits From MSNbot
 

I am being hit byt massive MSNbot hits from last 2 days brining massive amount of RAW hits to stats.

Here's some of what I see with no referrers:
65.55.215.96 - - [05/Feb/2013:00:00:36 -0800] "GET /track/desipapa.1.23.48.0.2762.0.0.0/img/b10.jpg HTTP/1.1" 302 - "-" "msnbot-media/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
59.184.54.183 - - [05/Feb/2013:00:00:46 -0800] "GET /gallery/desipapa.1.22.46.0.2798.0.0.0 HTTP/1.1" 302 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.2.0.0 Safari/537.17"
199.30.16.54 - - [05/Feb/2013:00:00:51 -0800] "GET /track/desipapa.1.24.55.1.2870.0.0.0/img/tour_preview4.jpg HTTP/1.1" 302 - "-" "msnbot-media/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
65.55.215.96 - - [05/Feb/2013:00:02:16 -0800] "GET /track/desipapa.1.22.46.0.2810.0.0.0/assets/images/content/pre21.jpg HTTP/1.1" 302 - "-" "msnbot-media/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"

What are these for? Are these real hits counted or they are just fake hits. They are eatign bandwidth as well. Need to know what to do with them..... info required asap please

Congrats!

We have that sometimes. Yesterday was crazy, so we used this trick and it worked immediately:
http://www.bing.com/community/site_b...er-msnbot.aspx

Just call Spacedog. He will keep them busy.

It's probably crawling your site to add your pics to Bing Images. Do you also complain when googlebot does the same? :D

One of my sites is being eatin up by MSNBot-media too, and my results suck on bing.

how much bandwith is the bot eating ?

cant be all that much

bing crawler...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...ic-irregularly

add this to robots.txt

User-agent: msnbot
Crawl-delay: 1

I said that ;-)