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Posted May 1, 20168 yr 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.
May 1, 20168 yr Help if you could provide: link to an example profile that has got a photo that is hidden. link to an example profile that has got a photo that isn't hidden. The actual entries you have in the robots.txt file.
May 1, 20168 yr Author @Nathan Explosion Thanks for reply. None of my profiles are hidden. Is it required to keep hidden to avoid indexing? link to profile which is not hidden and indexed by google image http://thedoc.org/profile/124-abu-hasan/ 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§ion=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§ion=friends Disallow: /index.php?app=core&module=reports Disallow: /index.php?app=core&module=global§ion=login&do=deleteCookies Disallow: /index.php?app=core&module=global§ion=reputation Disallow: /index.php?app=blog&module=actions§ion=report Disallow: /index.php?app=forums&module=extras§ion=rating Disallow: /index.php?app=forums&module=forums§ion=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/
May 1, 20168 yr 8 minutes ago, Himadri Goswami said: @Nathan Explosion Thanks for reply. 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/
May 1, 20168 yr Author 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
May 1, 20168 yr 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.
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