| How can I avoid Google Image Search traffic? Is it possible?
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Oxydada
msg:3675377 | 5:50 pm on Jun 15, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Hi there Since about 3 days I'm having huge loads of traffic coming from Google Image Search - I have an entertainment blog, so half my content are pictures, half text and news.
This kind of traffic is really hurting my stats: bounce rate now is 25% up and my Adsense CTR is down 40% - people just look at the picture for just one second and they're gone.
My blog is optimized and it has good content and used to have a nice bounce rate. Is there any way to avoid this traffic? Is is possible to 'opt-out' from Image Search?
Any trick to avoid my images being indexed?
What about the nofollow tag on pictures? Would that work? Thanks in advance and please excuse my English.
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Bones
msg:3675396 | 6:52 pm on Jun 15, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Can't you just disallow the Google Image bot in your robots.txt? Something like (I think): User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
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Atharva
msg:3675417 | 7:23 pm on Jun 15, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Do not reject such traffic i feel. What you can do is have a frame break out script where if the user clicks on your image, it redirects him to the actual content page. It takes a long time to be included or excluded from google image index
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tedster
msg:3675509 | 11:42 pm on Jun 15, 2008 (gmt 0) |
If you're sure you don't want Image Search traffic, you could also use robots.txt to disallow the /images/ folder altogether. Either do it just for googlebot, or probably better in your situation, make it a universal request for all bots. User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/
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