Googlebot-Image
Owner of the robot : Google Inc.
Country : USA
Robot type : search engine
Description : Googlebot-Image crawls pages to build and maintain Google image index.
Be careful when using robots.txt to disallow Googlebot! Blocking Googlebot with the following code also blocks Googlebot-Image and Googlebot-Mobile.
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /
To disallow Googlebot and to allow Googlebot-Image at the same time, Google recommends to use these non-standard robots.txt instructions:
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
It is very likely that Googlebot-Image uses Google caching proxy technology that makes the collected data available to all Google services.
User Agent transmitted to the visited web server :
- Googlebot-Image/1.0
IP address range :
- from 66.249.64.0 to 66.249.95.255 (googlebot.com)
(last visit in January 2008)
Access control options understood by the robot :
- robots.txt
- META NAME=”robots”
- rel=”nofollow”
User Agent to use in the robots.txt file : Googlebot-Image
URL’s for more information :
- http://www.google.com/bot.html
- Webmaster Help Center - Remove an image from Google Image Search
- Webmaster Help Center - How do I block Googlebot?
Our pages about other Google robots:
February 13th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Is it a mistake to disallow the Googlebot-Image for SEO and page rank purposes?
February 13th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Disallowing Googlebot-Image will not change the PageRank of your pages. It is probably not going to change the way your pages are indexed at all.
On the other hand, you are going to lose the visitors coming from Google Image searches. If your web site contains many images, this can be a lot of lost visitors.