I get a huge amount of google serches for some rather popular images that I have put up over the last year and a half. Is there any way to "block" the google search as they eat up a huge amount of my bandwidth....
any ideas besides quit blogging ;-)
Posted by GM Roper at March 18, 2006 06:33 AM | TrackBackI think if you go to google's main page, there might be a link on how to prevent the googlebots from archiving your pages and images.
Posted by Madfish Willie at March 18, 2006 07:31 AMYou have to have this in robots.txt:
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
I'm not a Munuvian, so I don't know if you can do this. It might be a central file for everyone, and I'm thinking most people wouldn't want to exclude it.
Details here:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/remove.html#images
and
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion-admin.html
Yep, you can update robots.txt (and .htaccess, if you need to). It's a separate file for each blog, so you can do anything you like.
Posted by Pixy Misa at March 19, 2006 12:25 PM