How to change url or image name to block Google Images

  • I set up a robot.txt to block google image-bot only (not Google search) for my blog some months ago and it did kick in. Google is not scraping any of my new cartoons posted.

    However, they have already stolen dozens that are still up. I want to do anything I can so Google will no longer show them. As you know, they are hotlinking all these fullsize images, barely mention copyright, and don’t link to blogs in a useful way to US.

    I’ve tried changing the permalink, deleting the image and uploading it again with a new name, and more. Within 10 seconds of changing the permalink, Google finds that post again, and I’ve lost juice from the original permalink.

    I don’t care about rank for certain posts anymore. I just want Google to get a 404 and stop hosting my cartoons.

    What can I change so they can’t see that cartoon or post? Does this have something to do with pretty permalinks? My site: https://donnabarstow.com/

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  • Thread Starter Drawer2

    (@drawer2)

    If I just change the published date, would that be enough to block Google from linking to my image?

    Thread Starter Drawer2

    (@drawer2)

    I tried deleting the original image through the Media manager. It’s gone from the library. Yet, Google is still linking to it.

    Then I had to go to my FTP, and I could see it still in my uploads, even though it’s gone from the Media Library! This seems like a flaw/glitch in WordPress.

    So in FTP, I deleted the 2 bigger sizes, and kept the thumbnails for 2 cartoons, and tested that in Google. Interestingly, they are so greedy and desperate for images that they first enlarged the 150px wide thumbnail image to 255px in one and 231px in another, under image info, and then they enlarged the whole thing again, extrapolated and blurry, to 500px.

    I read once that there is a way to serve Google only thumbnails. Could someone please tell me how to do this?

    You can go into your robots.txt file and disallow indexing of all of your media folders – that should help.

    Here’s another thread about it in further detail https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/robotstxt-8?replies=15

    Thread Starter Drawer2

    (@drawer2)

    Hi, Kori,

    As I said in the first paragraph, I already disallow indexing of images. However, that is only for images I uploaded after I wrote the robot.txt – it doesn’t affect images Google snatched before that, unfortunately!

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