Blocking Google Image Search

sirensofsong

Since Google Image Search allows right click downloads even on protected galleries, I wanted to use some code to prevent google from indexing my images. I know I need to use:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

but don't know where to put it. Do I need to create a robots.txt file or can I do it through the advanced customizer with a meta tag?

Thanks!

Andy

Just set Hello World (in gallery settings) to no, then google won't find your images at all

sirensofsong

Thanks for the quick reply, Andy. I was under the impression that turning off Hello World would mean Google wouldn't index the gallery pages.
I'm all for people finding my gallery pages through Google; I'm not a fan of how the Google Image Search has a pop-up of images that people can right-click and save.

Andy

It would mean google wouldn't touch the gallery at all.

sirensofsong

Okay...looks like I better look go the robots.txt route. Thanks!

SamirD

I'd resize the image and put a watermark. It's free advertising on Google!

denisegoldberg

sirensofsong wrote: »

...I'm not a fan of how the Google Image Search has a pop-up of images that people can right-click and save.

Right click protection is just a bump in the road. It won't stop folks from grabbing your images from your smug site. See ORIGINALS = a gateway to free photos, & right click protection is NOT PROTECTION.

From the help page at http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93342:

Gotcha: Right-click protection is a deterrent for image theft but it should not be considered fool-proof. To truly protect your images, lock galleries with a password or apply a watermark and disable original-sized image viewing.

You're limiting access to watermarked images with the largest size of Large, so you do have that level of protection. But it's easy to grab the images from the browser cache.

--- Denise

Andy

denisegoldberg wrote: »

From the help page at http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93342:

--- Denise

WTG Denise for using our new help pages!

denisegoldberg

Andy wrote: »

WTG Denise for using our new help pages!

I always use your help pages - I really can't understand why more people don't go there first!

--- Denise

rainforest1155

sirensofsong wrote: »

Okay...looks like I better look go the robots.txt route. Thanks!

Brian, you can't manually edit the robots.txt for your SmugMug site. It's provided by us and you can't manually exclude certain user agents. You can only disallow search engines as a whole via the "hello world" gallery / control panel setting.