Block or remove pages using a robots.txt
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I want to use robots.txt to prevent googlebot access the specific folder on the server,
Please tell me if the syntax below is correct
User-Agent: Googlebot Disallow: /folder/
I want to use robots.txt to prevent google image index the images of my website ,
Please tell me if the syntax below is correct
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
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Yes, that is correct.
Once you have it set up, you can test what pages are blocked in your GWT account. Health > Blocked URLs > select which bot you want to test at the bottom of the page.
Resources:
Google's bots - http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1061943
WMT Blocked URL testing - https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/robots-analysis
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