Keeping Googlebots Out of Images Folders

Googlebot not respecting my robots.txt file

[hermosa]

I have tried everything to stop Googlebots from indexing my image folders. How do I do it? Will that mean that the images won't show up in the caches of my HTML files?

Thanks.

[forumposters]

I've not heard of Google not listening to your robots.txt commands. Perhaps try the nofollow attribute wherever you link to these folders.

[g1smd]

This should be all you need:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/

Remember to have a blank line before the next User-agent declaration if there is more than one in the file.

[hermosa]

Thanks.

Now will that mean the images won't show up in the caches of the HTML files (which is not what I want) or just that the images won't show up separately.

[g1smd]

For normal Google search, the images shown in the Google cache are actually pulled live from your server by the browser.

See the cache of any of your pages, and note the <base href="http://www.yourdomain.com/yourpage.html"> tag that Google inserts in their preamble if the base tag is missing from your page itself.