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Author Topic: Preventing Google and Yahoo image searches?  (Read 2652 times)

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keithj

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Preventing Google and Yahoo image searches?
« on: February 20, 2006, 05:03:32 pm »

I searched the forum here and found that I need to put robots.txt and .htmaccess files and add some information to my template headers to prevent Google and Yahoo image searches but I am wondering if that is really necessary.  I really don't know anything about how their searches work but if I have my site set to login access only, how would the Google and Yahoo robots be able to figure out what images I have on my site if they can't log in?  I could see how they'd get through my site if I didn't have logins activated but can they somehow bypass the login page and find my images?

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Re: Preventing Google and Yahoo image searches?
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2006, 05:22:36 pm »

If your gallery requires login, then you don't have to worry about the bots accessing the images.
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Re: Preventing Google and Yahoo image searches?
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2006, 05:47:27 pm »

Thanks.  That's what I kinda thought but figured I'd make sure.

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Re: Preventing Google and Yahoo image searches?
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2006, 09:58:25 pm »

Well, they can't access the pages that are password-protected, but if someone posts a direct link to the image file in a public place, the images could be accessed by the bot and other humans.
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