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Blocking Image Access via Robots.txt

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darchell



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Post Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:01 pm
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Hi Folks,

I'm looking for some input with regards to the use of a robots.txt file to block search engines from trolling and indexing image directories.

Personally, I've found very little value in letting the search engines index image directories on my server. For the most part, it just ends up sucking up a lot of bandwidth (by the bots) and provides a handy tool that people can use when trying to find images for their own sites.

I can see how the indexing of images could help some sites (ie. a site that sells artwork) but outside of that ... has anyone ever noticed any significant perk for having your images indexed?

Also, are their any downsides to blocking the engines from accessing your images, besides the obvious of not being listed in image specific directories?
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Post Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:16 am
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I generate traffic from images. One site in particular was bringing me in a fair amount of traffic from a .jpg I had named with a keyword phrase. I was suprised at how many people found the site that way. I don't se many images on my sites and I don't name them 2568a.jpg or something that doesn't describe the image so for me it works.

I don't worry about bandwidth because the hosts I use and the plans I use have way more bandwidth than I'll ever use on those projects. My niches are tightly defined I don't expect millions of visitors.

And you can put whatever you want in your robots text file and if Google Yahoo or MSN or whomever wants to ignore those files they will.

So the best strategy is to figure out how to benefit from having your images crawled and indexed.

Copyright theft is another issue. And there are scripts to prevent this theft.
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