noimageindex
A robots directive asking search engines not to index the images on a page, so they do not appear in image search as coming from it. CrawlCheck reads it in the meta robots tag and the X-Robots-Tag header and shows it in each page's directives.
What noimageindex does not show
It applies to that page's images only; the same image embedded on another page without the directive can still be indexed from there.
Where noimageindex comes up on this site
- Meta robots vs X-Robots-Tag vs robots.txt: which one controls indexingLayer 2: meta robots and X-Robots-Tag are about the fetched page Both carry the same directives, noindex , nofollow , nosnippet , noimageindex , max-snippet , unavailable_after , and a crawler applies whichever it finds.
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Related terms in Indexing and discovery
Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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Questions about noimageindex
What is noimageindex?
A robots directive asking search engines not to index the images on a page, so they do not appear in image search as coming from it. CrawlCheck reads it in the meta robots tag and the X-Robots-Tag header and shows it in each page's directives.
What does noimageindex not show or guarantee?
A robots directive asking search engines not to index the images on a page, so they do not appear in image search as coming from it. It applies to that page's images only; the same image embedded on another page without the directive can still be indexed from there.
Which area of the glossary does noimageindex belong to?
Indexing and discovery: Whether a page can be found and kept, separately from whether it can be fetched.
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