Quick Tip: How To Block Google Image Search

Google image search (and similar search engines) are fairly worthless for website administrators for 2 reasons. 1) It is very rare that a visitor who comes to your site via image search will become a repeat visitor or customer, and 2) It wastes bandwidth and greatly increases the threat of bandwidth theft (MySpace and forum users love to hotlink images they find via image search).

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

I’ve recently started doing that after repeated cases of bandwidth theft via image hotlinking. I’m sick of it, so I’m making it harder for people to find them.

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