Stop Indexing Image
:A Complete Tutorial
Stop Indexing Image
If you are a private person and don’t wish to include the images on your page to appear in a search engine like Google, you can use the noimageindex value in the head portion of your HTML page, as shown in the following example:
<meta name="robots" content="noimageindex"></meta>
However, if other webmasters directly link to your images, then Google may still index those images, as they explain on their help entry on the subject.
A more better way to protect your images would be to put all your images into a special folder on your webhost, like “/images/” Then, you can add a entry inside your robots.txt file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/
This will tell the spider not to crawl that folder, and so they won’t be able to generate any thumbnails of your images and put that on their server.
Then again, the question is why you’d want to keep spiders from indexing your images in the first place. There may be some small bandwidth costs involved when crawlers download your images, but Google Image Search can send tons of free traffic to your site.
