HOWTO: Prevent Google Images from Indexing Your Blog's Images

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If you review your statistics you may see that your blog's images are being found through Google's Image search (http://images.google.com/). This in itself is not bad. However, what sometimes happens is that people come across an image on your site and then reference the image in a blog post, online forum post, etc. which causes your bandwidth to be used.

To prevent Google from indexing the images on your site, add the following to your robots.txt file:

Code:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

This will tell Google's Images spider to not index any images on your site. For more information, see Google's information page. If you don't already have a robots.txt file, just create a file named robots.txt using a text editor and add the above to it. Save it and upload it to the root of your blog using the File Manger in the Publisher's Control Panel.

If you want to prevent other sites from referencing your images on your Blogzerk blog, you can change your settings in the Publisher's Control Panel under Settings and Security/Advanced to uncheck Allow sourcing of files and images.