Wordpress - How do you stop images in tables being shown in Google Results??

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Hi All,

How do you stop Google indexing the images that you have inside tables on your wordpress sites.

I looked on Google at one of my sites this morning and i seem to have 20 pages listed which are just displaying an image taken from a table created with the WP Reloaded plugin?

I can't seem to find any info on resolving this problem on Google search that seems helpful...

Please help

Thanks
Mark
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  • I think this is what you're looking for:
    wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/41755/google-is-indexing-wordpress-attachment-pages
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  • Developdaly,thanks for trying to help with the problem that i have.

    I dont think that i explained the problem very well so i'll try again.

    I am having problems with images in the wordpress media library being indexed by Google. I understand that the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast can help me to put a 301 redirect on these pages back to the post that contains the images but i would rather not have the images within the pages indexed at all.

    How do i use robots.txt to control the indexing of these files? and furthermore is this the best way to resolve this problem?

    Can anyone help me with this problem please?

    Thanks
    Mark
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    • Could someone else advise me on this problem please??
      Thanks
  • hi, maybe this will help:

    Prevent your images from appearing in Google search results
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    • I realize this is an old thread and I don't know if you have solved the problem or not but I have been struggling with this for months. I added disallow: attachments_id to robots.txt which didn't work. Google ignored it and continued to index attachment pages. I added the Yoast redirect which worked. Users were redirected to the parent pages however Google was still indexing the attachment pages. I have looks at hundreds of posts and articles on this subject and no one has suggested the URL Parameters section in Google Webmaster Tools. In there you can list portions of URLs for Google to ignore.
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