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NoIndex Images URL

December 3, 2019 at 12:41 pm #910

[anonymous]

What’s the easiest way to disable indexing of Media and Assets folders in Publii?

All images and assets URLs are indexed by Google which is not ideal.

December 3, 2019 at 4:35 pm #916

Bob

Hi,

I think you can try to use robots.txt with the following rules:

Block one folder
`User-agent: *
Disallow: /folder/
`
Block one file
`User-agent: *
Disallow: /file.html
`
More detailed information you can find here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt

December 3, 2019 at 4:40 pm #917

[anonymous]

Robots.txt only works after you’ve NoIndexed existing image URLs. Otherwise Googlebot will never be able to reach those URLs in the first place.

If there’s no direct/simple way to achieve this, another way of addressing my concern would be – how to ensure Publii doesn’t generate dedicated pages/URLs for Images? This has been a major issue with Yoast SEO on WordPress sites in the past.

December 3, 2019 at 4:50 pm #918

Bob

What do you mean by dedicated pages/URLs for Images?

December 3, 2019 at 4:55 pm #919

[anonymous]

So I see links like `https://example.com/media/posts/2/abc.jpg` generated from my posts where I’ve uploaded pics.

December 3, 2019 at 5:02 pm #920

Bob

Yes, this is normal behavior; images must be located somewhere, and if you want to display them on a web page linked from that location.
To remove the full src path, you can try to use Relative URLs in server settings, but I’m not sure if it helps.

December 3, 2019 at 5:18 pm #921

[anonymous]

Is there no way to add NoIndex tag on images URL?

December 3, 2019 at 5:24 pm #922

Bob

There is no Noindex tag for an image element, instead, try to use X-Robots-Tag https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_tag

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