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#1 2005-10-25 23:38:34

MsContrary

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From: California

Registered: 2004-12-27

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Google images as referrer

Most of the hits I’ve been getting are from this referrer: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=www.hununu.org/images/7.jpg&imgrefurl=www.hununu.org/index.php%3Fid%3D13&h=494&w=504&sz=36&tbnid=a62FwB7ky2wJ:&tbnh=125&tbnw=128&hl=en&start=52&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dclover%26start%3D40%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

They’re coming from all over the world!

It’s weird because it’s just a blog entry with a picture of some clover, not anything er, racy (unless you’re a cow).

Following the link brings up a google images page that usually says Error, Not Found but does have a thumbnail of the image that links to my blog entry. But sometimes it also shows the blog page.

Should I be happy to have “visitors” or wary?

M

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#2 2005-10-26 07:04:06

colak

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Re: Google images as referrer

Block it with your htaccess file

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#3 2005-10-26 09:54:11

Jeremie

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Re: Google images as referrer

Why block them ?

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#4 2005-10-26 10:05:59

Neko

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Registered: 2004-03-18

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Re: Google images as referrer

I get them too. I guess the “not found” thingy is caused by TXP referrer logs that truncate the Google URL.

If you prefer to have your images not being crawled use a disallow rule in your robots.txt file, exluding the images folder.

#5 2005-10-26 17:31:19

MsContrary

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From: California

Registered: 2004-12-27

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Re: Google images as referrer

Thanks for the replies!

I don’t feel so paranoid now if it’s happening to others. ;)

M

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#6 2005-10-26 19:55:36

paularms

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From: University of Minnesota

Registered: 2004-10-21

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Re: Google images as referrer

If you prefer to have your images not being crawled use a disallow rule in your robots.txt file, exluding the images folder.

That actually doesn’t work. Crawlers follow links and markup on pages, they don’t actually crawl through every directory in your server (it isn’t possible because it would be a severe security issue).

So if the image is on a page, it will be seen by image search engines and some make a guess that the full size image is whatever the image links to, which can get odd hits.

#7 2005-10-26 20:52:38

Neko

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Registered: 2004-03-18

Posts: 458

Re: Google images as referrer

Well, anyhow Google has some tips: http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/remove.html#images

Last edited by Neko (2005-10-26 20:55:07)