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noimageindex?

How do I allow a page to be cached without right clicking allowed?

         

NeedALife

6:50 pm on Nov 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I've noticed a ton of google searches for an image on my index page. I've got a java script disallowing anyone to right click and save the images to their own computer. How can I disallow google images (or all other bot images) from allowing right clicks? If I put in:
<meta NAME="robots" CONTENT="index, follow">
<meta name="robots" content="noimageindex"/>

Will the page be properly cached? Is there a way to keep people from stealing my art? What would be the proper syntax for a robots.txt file to do this? Wrong forum, but while I'm at it, I may as well ask anyway. If my distribution is not global, and I want to limit it to only the US, what is the proper syntax for the meta distribution tag?

Thanks in advance from someone who learns from trial and error than anything else... LOL

encyclo

6:58 pm on Nov 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



If you are talking about Google Images, you can block their image bot with the following in your robots.txt file:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

I haven't heard of the meta noimageindex tag and I doubt it is supported.

For your other questions, right-click disable scripts are at most annoying and they are usually completely ineffective. This is the nature of the web - in order to see the image, the browser has to download it. The rest is just a diversion to increase the difficulty of access and the side-effects are usually worse than the solution.

For the meta distribution tag, no public robot takes any notice of it.

NeedALife

7:44 pm on Nov 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Thanks. I'll change the robots file. What is the syntax for Yahoo images?