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Old 02-04-2008, 10:14 PM
memaggiem memaggiem is offline
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Default Re: Excluding the "good" BOTS from /images folder

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Originally Posted by Penman View Post
we completely disallow our images folder in our robots.txt file. This does not prevent the images from showing in the cache on the search engines as they use links to our images on our site instead of caching the images them selves.
GREAT! This is exactly what I was hoping for!

and TechEvangelist - I will do the META tag within the index.htm in the /images/ directory just for good measure too!

Thanks all very very much!
Maggie


Now, if anyone wants to take a gander at why MSN kept looking for my content within the /images/ folder when it found the index.htm file - not that I really care; it's just something I find very odd!
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