Need effective way to hide profile photos from image search

[Himadri Goswami]

I am running a medical site with IPB. However google was indexing all the profile photos. Then I moved all the profile photos to uploads/profiles folder and added noindex for images in the robots.txt. That removed most of the images from google. But not all. IPB staff advises to add noindex to all upload folder, while doing that will remove lots of images that bring traffic to my site.

Please advise me an effective way to do that.

[Nathan Explosion]

Help if you could provide:

1. link to an example profile that has got a photo that is hidden.
2. link to an example profile that has got a photo that isn't hidden.
3. The actual entries you have in the robots.txt file.

 

[Himadri Goswami]

@Nathan Explosion

Thanks for reply.

1. None of my profiles are hidden. Is it required to keep hidden to avoid indexing?
2. link to profile which is not hidden and indexed by google image http://thedoc.org/profile/124-abu-hasan/
3. robots text entries:

   User-agent: *
   
   Disallow: /admin/
   Disallow: /cache/
   Disallow: /converge_local/
   Disallow: /hooks/
   Disallow: /messenger/
   Disallow: /ips_kernel/
   Disallow: /retail/
   Disallow: /public/style_captcha/
   Disallow: /index.php?&unlockUserAgent=1
   Disallow: /index.php?app=core&module=task
   Disallow: /index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=forums&area=forumsubs
   Disallow: /index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=forums&area=watch&watch=topic
   Disallow: /index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=forward
   Disallow: /index.php?app=members&module=messaging
   Disallow: /index.php?app=members&module=chat
   Disallow: /index.php?app=members&module=search
   Disallow: /index.php?app=members&module=search&do=active
   Disallow: /index.php?app=members&section=friends
   Disallow: /index.php?app=core&module=reports
   Disallow: /index.php?app=core&module=global&section=login&do=deleteCookies
   Disallow: /index.php?app=core&module=global&section=reputation
   Disallow: /index.php?app=blog&module=actions&section=report
   Disallow: /index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=rating
   Disallow: /index.php?app=forums&module=forums&section=markasread
   Disallow: /*app=core&module=usercp
   Disallow: /*app=core&module=usercp
   Disallow: /*app=members&module=messaging
   Disallow: /*&p=
   Disallow: /*&pid=
   Disallow: /*&hl=
   Disallow: /*&start=
   Disallow: /*view__getnewpost$
   Disallow: /*view__getlastpost$
   Disallow: /*view__old$
   Disallow: /*view__new$
   Disallow: /*view__getfirst$
   Disallow: /*view__getprevious$
   Disallow: /*view__getnext$
   Disallow: /*view__getlast$
   Disallow: /*&view=getnewpost$
   Disallow: /*&view=getlastpost$
   Disallow: /*&view=old$
   Disallow: /*&view=new$
   Disallow: /*&view=getfirst$
   Disallow: /*&view=getprevious$
   Disallow: /*&view=getnext$
   Disallow: /*&view=getlast$
   Disallow: /*?s=
   Disallow: /*&s=
   
   User-agent: Googlebot-Image
   Disallow: /profiles/
   Disallow: /emoticons/

    

 

[Nathan Explosion]

8 minutes ago, Himadri Goswami said:

@Nathan Explosion

Thanks for reply.

1. None of my profiles are hidden. Is it required to keep hidden to avoid indexing?

A profile whose image is hidden from Google (i.e. not indexed)

Also, where is the line in the robots.txt that is disallowing the images in /uploads/profiles? You've got Disallow: /profiles/

[Himadri Goswami]

ok

here is one http://thedoc.org/profile/94-badshah-ajb/

@Nathan Explosion

[Himadri Goswami]

33 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said:

A profile whose image is hidden from Google (i.e. not indexed)

Also, where is the line in the robots.txt that is disallowing the images in /uploads/profiles? You've got Disallow: /profiles/

No, i have only added  Disallow: /profiles/            only

 

[Nathan Explosion]

Then, if you haven't already done it since last post, update the robots.txt to disallow /uploads/profiles as that is where the files are.