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Google images is killing me!

Any way of requesting an images bot spider?

         

Iczer

1:23 pm on Mar 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I have a personal site that has a large amount of pictures with (apparently) popular names. Everything was fine when I was listed in the directory. Two months ago I got listed in Images and my bandwidth went up 5x overnight. I denied images bot in Robots.txt and added an .htaccess that gives a 404.

I have not gotten an images spider since then and bandwidth is still being sucked up. I do want want to put in a request to remove the site, but was wondering if there was any way to request an images spider or if there was anything else I might do?

Thanx,
Tim

Voxman

1:32 pm on Mar 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I would think it would take some time for Google to drop the images. It won't happpen overnight and to be honest I really don't know if they drop images like they do serps.

That might not be the only problem. Other people now could be connecting directly to your pics on other sites.

If you change the name of the images with something that is not a popular keyword that should fix it immediately in the short term. For instance our pics on our site refer to the inventory number of the product which means they won't show up in a search. If you change them to a letter number system, you might even find that you can track them yourself even better.

Just a suggestion and hope it helps

Iczer

2:07 pm on Mar 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

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The numbering system is a great idea. I might go to that.

I was having problems with a few sites linking to mine but the .htaccess has taken care of that so far.

Thanks

jezra

10:15 pm on Mar 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I had similarly related problem recently. An image from my site showed up in prominently in Google's images search. Quite a few people leeched the image for a post in various forums on the web. Everytime a page containing the post was viewed, my image would be displayed and my bandwidth would be consumed. I fixed the problem with an antileech plugin for my webserver. I suggest checking your logs to see if something similar is happening to you.

HughMungus

10:26 pm on Mar 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Turn those image hits into money: put a frame busting script on your website.

vabtz

10:29 pm on Mar 3, 2005 (gmt 0)



HughMungus please expand.

The Contractor

10:34 pm on Mar 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Turn those image hits into money: put a frame busting script on your website.

What he means is if you use a framebusting script and someone views the image in Google images they will be taken to your page where the image is.

Like:
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
if (top.frames.length > 0)
{
top.location=self.location;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
between your <head> </head> tags

HughMungus

10:49 pm on Mar 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Google uses frames to frame your images "in context" so you can just use this to bust out of the frame and send that traffic to your site:

<script type="text/javascript">
if (top!=self) { top.location.href = '<? echo $location?>'; }
</script>

You can also get really fancy and look at the referer and see what image they wanted to get is and send them to that image on your site.

vabtz

10:54 pm on Mar 3, 2005 (gmt 0)



oh geez thats a cool tip :-)

..thanks..

HughMungus

10:57 pm on Mar 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Oh, and, by the way, my "$location" is a URL I derived by looking at Google's referer string (so I could send people to the page that has the image they're looking for).

Voxman

8:41 pm on Mar 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

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We use frame busters as well.... why not take advantage.