How Do I Ban Google From Seeing A Folder?

Hi,

I am using a special "images" folder with only images in it for a site. I "pull" images from that folder to all pages on my site. This is only for good-organization of my work.

But Google results finds/shows this folder without "real content". And I don't want the folder to show up in Google.
(it shows up when people type in site:www.myside.com)

Probably I can ban that with robots.txt or with what?

I only want to exclude the folder. I've been excluding certain pages like iframes, but never had to exclude an entire folder...

Suggestions/help are warmly appreciated

 

You just add in your robots txt:

 

Update your robots.txt file with

Disallow:/foldername

 

There are bots specifically for images, so you could also disallow them entirely from your site (in case at some point you end up with images outside of /images/ directory).

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

User-agent: MSNBot-Media
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexImages
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexMedia
Disallow: /

User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Disallow: /

Code (markup):

 

OK, so I will disalow 'that foler', but that folder contains a bunch of images.

How will this affect those images? Will anyone be able to find them via Google Images search? (because a large part of my traffic actually comes from image search)

Thank you all for helping!

 

You should add description with HTML <img src="..." alt="..." /> It also be middle by alt tags while attaching image.

 

You don't need to disallow anything then if you want the images to show up in image search. Just don't make a link to the images folder or put an index file in there and you'll be fine. The images will still be indexed, but not the folder name as a "web page". You're over-thinking things.

 

You can use wildcards too...this is very useful. I recently had to prevent Google crawling aspx pages in tha folder but allow the html pages to be crawled, very useful.

Also I don't think anyone has mentioned that Google webmaster tools is great for testing what disallows you have in the robots.txt. I usually use it to make sure that the pages I DO want crawling are still available to the Googlebot.

 

Actually I had same problem. Ya you can disallow these link using Robots.txt but user can still access your folder. So I would suggest you use .htaccess file. In that file use

which will block all folders to access from smart user. I hope it will helpful to you.
Thanks