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Google indexing my attachment pages

by zonkow
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I have recently added 3 image galleries to my site. Each gallery includes about 70 images. I have realized that Google has indexed each image as an attachment page. The pages includes an image only, no text.
I know that this is dangerous in terms of SEO.
So, how can I make Google to deindex them?
#attachment #google #indexing #pages
  • Profile picture of the author manishchauhan
    Just make sure that you have following lines added in your robots.txt:

    Disallow:/*.jpg
    Disallow:/*.png
    Disallow:/*.gif
    Disallow:/*.any other image format
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  • Profile picture of the author Moriarty
    Manish is right. There is another way and that is to use a folder that is also disallowed using the robots.txt file (which I presume you know about?).

    then your image url would be http://yoursite/images/your-photo.jpg

    and the robots.txt would look like this:

    User agent*
    disallow /images/

    Do check the exact syntax as this is from memory and I don't change my robots files very often.
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  • Profile picture of the author aakon7
    I know that this is dangerous in terms of SEO.
    I would have to disagree, Google knows these are just attachment pages and will not penalize your site for this.
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