How to prevent search engines from  indexing your images

If you don’t want the images on your blog to appear in Google, and other search engines, you can block the robots from indexing them.

How do you remove a picture from Google images?

If you do not want your images indexed by Google, place the following in your robots.tx file.

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

How to remove your copyrighted images from Yahoo

To disallow Yahoo!’s image crawler from accessing your image files add

User-agent: Yahoo-MMCrawler
Disallow: /

Picsearch

Picsearch indexes images from the web. To avoid being index include the following in your robots.txt file.

User-agent: psbot
Disallow: /

Msn

To prevent MSN from indexing your images include the following in  your robot.txt file.

User-agent: msnbot
Disallow: /*.jpg$
Disallow: /*.jpeg$
Disallow: /*.gif$
Disallow: /*.png$

To disallows all robots (User-agents) access to the images directory use the following.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images

Check to see if your images appear on Google Image Search

To see if your images are being indexed by Google- go to Google and click on images. Type the following into the search bar

site:yourblogaddress.com

This query will filter only the results coming from your site.

Unfortunately if your blog is hosted on Blogger, you cannot  edit your robots.txt file.

Do you block your images from appearing in image search?

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