Google indexing uploads folders

  • Hi,

    I just saw that Google has indexed the uploads folders on my blog.

    Here’s an example of a page: domainname.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/

    I’d like to have those pages removed and blocked. I’m not sure how to go about it.

    I’m not sure a Robots.txt block will work as these same folders are where all the images are located and these should be allowed to be indexed for Image Search.

    Does anyone know how to solve this?

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  • Hi,

    On my website, as I don’t want Google index my images (.jpg etc…) and other files in wp-content, wp-admin and wp-includes folders, by default I block search engines by this way :

    User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: MSNBot
User-agent: Slurp
User-agent: Teoma
User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /wp-*

    Like that, the search engines Google, MSN, Bing, Yahoo will not index files at all in wp-content, wp-admin and wp-includes.

    And here below is to block Google Image indexing :

    User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

    As soon as you put this in place, do not forget to ask Google to remove the indexed pages using the Webmaster Tools Google.

    Regards

    Thread Starter johnddd

    (@johnddd)

    Thanks,

    I’m wondering why shouldn’t we want Google to index our images. I just want the index files of those images in the Uploads folders to be removed from the index

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