SEOMoz site crawlers created an issue for our servers

[StephenALee]

I have set up a number of campaigns with your pro tool. Unfortunately we have 7 sites on our server and our IT dept have said that we had an issue when your site crawlers visited for several sites at the same time - is there any way that I can retain the campaigns but have the sites crawled on request rather than automatically?

[G-Force]

Hi Stephen,

If your server can't handle the SEOMoz spider, it wouldn't probably survive to all the malicious spiders out there... You should realy think into getting a new hosting account/server (or a new IT dept...).

In the "Campaign Settings" you have a "Weekly crawl completed _for campaign: _" checkbox that you could uncheck to disable the crawling of a certain campaign.

You might also want to use the "Crawl-delay:" directive into your robots.txt file, I don't know if it is supported by SEOMoz spider, but it might protect your server from other spiders.

Otherwise, like Barry Smith suggested, you should get in touch with SEOMoz team and see what they can do.  If their crawler doesn't support the "Crawl-delay:" directive, you might want to suggest them to implement it.

Best regards,
Guillaume Voyer.

[StalkerB]

Best to get in touch with them directly - http://www.seomoz.org/about/contact

customerservice@seomoz.org should get your email to the right people (as I don't know who best to contact about tools)

Alternatively you could use the helpdesk - http://seomoz.zendesk.com/home