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How can we keep Google and other search engines from finding images?
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User: Don B. 10 years ago
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| How can we prevent images from ending up in a Google Image search or any other sesrch engines? Some of the photos I have I would rather not see in a Google image search. Thanks. | |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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You can use a robots meta tag like this... <meta name="robots" content="noimageindex"> ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Paul-RAGESW 10 years ago
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Just to clarify you should copy and paste the code provided by Roddy in Site wide header code by going to the File menu and selecting "Edit Publishing Settings".
------------------------------- Paul EverWeb Developer |
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User: Gregory K. 10 years ago
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I found this to be an excellent idea to implement so when I went to paste the code, I found I had already taken care of it but with slightly different code. I'm pretty sure I got it from this forum but when and from who....... Is there any difference in the end game? <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow”> |
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User: Roddy 10 years ago
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Quote: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow”> This will prevent the spiders from indexing ALL the web page content and from following all the links. The OP presumably want's has pages and links indexed but NOT the images. If you have "no index" in the meta tag, the images won't get indexed since the spiders won't crawl the page at all. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Don B. 9 years ago
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| Yes, that's sort of what I'm after but not fully. I want the robots to be able to find the pages and text on those pages BUT NOT the photos. My goal is to prevent just the photos showing up in the image searches. | |
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User: Roddy 9 years ago
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You can use ... <meta name="robots" content="noimageindex"> If you have access to the server you can use robots.txt to disallow your Images and ewExternalFiles folders. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Don B. 9 years ago
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So, Roddy a statement lime this would work: User-agent: * Disallow: /photos Is there a specific set of words that would be best to use for EverWeb? My website is on GoDaddy which gives me access to all my files but I'm unsure where this statement should go and how to get it there. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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User: Roddy 9 years ago
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If you created a robots.txt file with ... If you created a robots.txt file with this... User-agent: * Disallow: /photos ... and uploaded it to the root folder on the server, it would prevent the all bots that head this instruction from crawling a folder named "photos" which is also in the root folder. The problem is that you probably don't have a folder named "photos". When you insert an image using a widget, EverWeb exports this to an "ewExternalFiles" folder. If you drag an image onto the page it exports it to an "images" folder. If you are using directories you will have more than one of each of the above folders. All these folders - and the paths to them - need to be inserted into the robots.txt file. Each folder in the path requires its own line. Your original question stated that you wanted to stop Google specifically. If this is the case you would replace the asterisk with "Googlebot" - without the quotes of course. Its far easier, and there's less chance of errors, if you paste this into EverWeb's site wide head code box... <meta name="robots" content="noimageindex"> ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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