I searched the forum here and found that I need to put robots.txt and .htmaccess files and add some information to my template headers to prevent Google and Yahoo image searches but I am wondering if that is really necessary. I really don't know anything about how their searches work but if I have my site set to login access only, how would the Google and Yahoo robots be able to figure out what images I have on my site if they can't log in? I could see how they'd get through my site if I didn't have logins activated but can they somehow bypass the login page and find my images?
Keith
If your gallery requires login, then you don't have to worry about the bots accessing the images.
Thanks. That's what I kinda thought but figured I'd make sure.
Keith
Well, they can't access the pages that are password-protected, but if someone posts a direct link to the image file in a public place, the images could be accessed by the bot and other humans.