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Thanks Matt for your time and assistance! Leona

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your feedback!

It is not my belief that Googlebot overwrides googlebot-images otherwise specifying something for a specific bot of Google's wouldn't work, correct?

I setup the following:

User-agent: googlebot

Disallow: /community/photos/

User-agent: googlebot-Image

Allow: /community/photos/

I tested the results in Google Webmaster Tools which indicated:

Googlebot:  Blocked by line 26: Disallow: /community/photos/Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions

Googlebot-Image:  Allowed by line 29: Allow: /community/photos/Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions

Thanks for your help!

Leona

Hi!

I have pages within my forum where visitors can upload photos.  When they upload photos they provide a simple statement about the photo but no real information about the image,definitely not enough for the page to be deemed worthy of being indexed.  The industry however is one that really leans on images and having the images in Google Image search is important to us.

The url structure is like such:  domain.com/community/photos/~username~/picture111111.aspx

I wish to block the whole folder from Googlebot to prevent these low quality pages from being added to Google's main SERP results.  This would be something like this:

User-agent: googlebot

Disallow: /community/photos/

Can  I disallow Googlebot specifically rather than just using User-agent:  * which would then allow googlebot-image to pick up the photos?  I plan on configuring a way to add meaningful alt attributes and image names to assist in visibility, but the actual act of blocking the pages and getting the images picked up... Is this possible?

Thanks!

Leona