__/ [Big Bill] on Friday 17 February 2006 14:24 \__
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:58:25 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>__/ [Big Bill] on Friday 17 February 2006 09:41 \__
>>
>>> <meta name="robots" content="follow,noimageindex,nomediaindex">
>>>
>>> It's a new one on me. It looks like wishful thinking.
>>>
>>> BB
>>
>>It seems to be something ancient, which dates back to Altavista.
>>
>>http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum11/1260-1-15.htm
>>
>>I haven't heard about these tags until you mentioned them. All the ones I
>>know reside in a page that I use as a reference:
>>
>>http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/metatags.html
>
> Ta. I don't think they actually do anything.
>
> BB
The way to avoid indexing of media is to centralise it under sensible,
aptly-names directories, e.g.
/images
and
/videos
Then, in robots.txt
User_agent: *
Disallow: /images
Disallow: /videos
Best wishes,
Roy
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