Disallow a single image?

Is it possible to block the search engines from indexing a single image?

[PrattTA1]

Is it possible to tell the search engines not to index a single image, but allow them to index the rest of them?

In other words, we only have one image on our site we don't want the search engines to index - is there something we can put in our robots file?

[Marshall]

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/image_name.gif

Should do the trick. Just make it the appropriate file path.

Marshall

PS - You can also stick it in your _private folder. I didn't think ofo an already disallowed folder. Sorry.

[edited by: Marshall at 3:29 pm (utc) on June 26, 2007]

[Staffa]

Or you can put your image in an already disallowed directory and make it easy on the SEs not to have to sift through your other images for just one.

[PrattTA1]

Great! Thanks everyone!