How to reduce the number of google spiders...?

[CyprusGrump]

Hi,

I'm in the process of trying to reduce the number of hits my site receives as the traffic has been very high recently.

I've got bad behavior running and that is working well...

But at the moment I am overwhelmed with 'visitors' to the site - when I check the IP address it resolves to google.

Keen as I am to have Google crawling the site, is there a simple way to restrict the numbers...?

Thanks in advance for any advice...

[Ricky.]

You can use a good  robot.txt to disallow unwanted area on your site, there was a thread for that , try searching for it. It will eventually decrease amount of data google need to index. Secondly, read following:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48620

[CyprusGrump]

You can use a good  robot.txt to disallow unwanted area on your site, there was a thread for that , try searching for it. It will eventually decrease amount of data google need to index. Secondly, read following:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48620

Thanks!