Got pictures you do not want indexed by search engines? These guides show you how!

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22 Mar, 2022

 There are many ways to prevent search engine index images on your website. In this article, I will show you how to do it with the Apache server using the .htaccess file, with the robots.txt file, or with the NGINX server in the file config. I will walk you through every method to let you choose the right one for your website. These steps by step guides are available for someone such as web developers, website owners, or anyone who know well about this. And please back up your website or files before you make any changes.

Noindex images in search engines tips and tricks

Robots.txt

When you want to keep images from being indexed by search engines, there are a few things you can do. You can use a robots.txt file to tell search engine robots not to crawl certain image files. 

For example, if you have an image called "dog.jpg" and you don't want it to be indexed by search engines, you would add the following line of code to your robotstxt file: disallow: /dog.jpg 

This will tell the robots not to crawl any files located at "/dog.jpg".

Here is an example of code added to the robots.txt file:

User-agent: * Disallow: /dog.jpg

Here is an example of code to tell with Google bot does not index images from your sites:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /

Here is an example of code to tell with Google bot does not index all images from your sites:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /

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Here is an example of code to tell with search engines does not index all images in the folder /images/ of your sites:

User-agent: * Disallow: /images/ Keep in mind that the folder where your images are located may not look like this.

Here is an example of code to tell with search engines bot does not index GIF images from your sites:

User-agent: * Disallow: /*.gif$

Here is an example of code to tell with search engines bot does not index PNG images from your sites:

User-agent: * Disallow: /*.png$

Here is an example of code to tell with a search engine does not index JPG images from your sites:

User-agent: * Disallow: /*.jpg$ 

Here is an example of code to tell with a search engine does not index PDF files from your sites:

User-agent: * Disallow: /*.pdf$ 
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How To Make WordPress All Images not index in Search Engines

Here is an example of code to tell with a search engine does not index WordPress's images from your sites:

User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/

.htaccess Apache server

Here is the way to set Header X-Robots-Tag noindex with the .htaccess Apache server. Header X-Robots-Tag is a way to tell the search engine not to index the specific images or files listed in the list below. This can be done by adding the header to the .htaccess file on an Apache server. The code is:

<FilesMatch "\.(bmp|gif|jpg|png|tif|svg|webp)$"> Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex" </FilesMatch>   
This will tell the search engine not to index the images with these extensions bmp, gif, jpg, png,tif,svg,webp but to still follow any links on the page. 

This example of code will prevent search engines index all .PDF extensions

<Files ~ "\.pdf$"> Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow" </Files>

NGINX Server

This example of code will prevent search engines index all .PDF extensions with NGINX

location ~* \.pdf$ { add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow"; }

### This example of code will prevent search engines index images extensions png, jpeg, gif, tif, bmp, webp, pdf with NGINX

location ~* \.(png|jpe?g|gif|tif|bmp|webp|pdf)$ { add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex"; }

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