Googlebot & Images - How To Exclude?

[Gazley]

Hi there,

Using an Image field, PW stores the images in 'site/assets/files'. For a photography site, all of the "public" images should be crawled and available in search results. However, if the photographer publishes a "private gallery" for his/her customers to view their images for selection after a photo-shoot, these too would be stored in an Image field, just like the rest of the public facing images.

I can't see a way using Robots.txt to exclude these folders from being crawled because I don't know what folders they are in ahead of time. There is nothing I know of in PW to compartmentalise one set of images from another so that they may or may not be specified in Robots.txt.

The private "My Gallery" routine on the site in question dynamically creates the gallery pages only after the customer logs in to the site via SSL. If you're not logged in, you get a "page not found" and routed to the site map.

Any thoughts or suggestions around this concern?

Thanks.

[Pete]

If the gallery is private (I.e. requires a password to sign in) then Google will never find the images anyway will it?

[horst]

And for pages that should be public but excluded for robots, you can use: http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html