{"id":25567,"date":"2026-09-05T02:45:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T23:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/remove-images-hosted-on-your-site-from-search-results\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T02:45:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T23:45:45","slug":"remove-images-hosted-on-your-site-from-search-results","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/remove-images-hosted-on-your-site-from-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove images hosted on your site from search results"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"warning\">\n  Trying to <b>remove images of yourself<\/b>? See<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch\/troubleshooter\/3111061\" class=\"external-link\">Remove your personal information from Google<\/a><br \/>\n  instead.<br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<h2 id=\"for-emergency-image-removal\" tabindex=\"-1\">For emergency image removal<\/h2>\n<p>\n  To quickly remove images hosted on your site from Google&#8217;s search results, use the<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/9689846#zippy=%2Cimage-url\" class=\"external-link\">Removals tool<\/a>.<br \/>\n  Keep in mind that unless you also remove the images from your site or otherwise block the images<br \/>\n  as described in the <a href=\"#non-emergency-image-removal\">non-emergency image removal section<\/a>,<br \/>\n  the images may resurface in Google&#8217;s search results once the removal request expires.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"non-emergency-image-removal\" tabindex=\"-1\">For non-emergency image removal<\/h2>\n<p>\n  There are two ways to remove images from your site from Google&#8217;s search results:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#robotstxt\">robots.txt disallow rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n    <a href=\"#noindex\">The <code>noindex<\/code> <code>X-Robots-Tag<\/code> HTTP header<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  The two methods have the same effect, choose the method that is more convenient for your site.<br \/>\n  Keep in mind that Googlebot has to crawl the URLs to extract the HTTP headers, so implementing<br \/>\n  both methods at the same time doesn&#8217;t make sense.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If you don&#8217;t have access to the site that&#8217;s hosting your images (for example a CDN) or your CMS<br \/>\n  doesn&#8217;t provide a way to block images with the <code>noindex<\/code> <code>X-Robots-Tag<\/code> HTTP<br \/>\n  header or robots.txt, you might need to delete the images altogether from your site.\n<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"robotstxt\" tabindex=\"-1\">Remove images using robots.txt rules<\/h3>\n<p>\n  To prevent images from your site appearing in Google&#8217;s search results, add a<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-txt-intro\/\">robots.txt<\/a> file to the root of the<br \/>\n  site that hosts the image, for example <code>https:\/\/yoursite.example.com\/robots.txt<\/code>. While<br \/>\n  it takes longer to remove an image from Google&#8217;s search results using robots.txt rules than it<br \/>\n  does to use the Removals tool, it gives you more flexibility and control through the use of<br \/>\n  wildcards or subpath blocking. It also applies to all search engines, whereas the Removals tool<br \/>\n  only applies to Google.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For example, if you want Google to exclude the <code>dogs.jpg<\/code> image that appears on your<br \/>\n  site at <code>yoursite.example.com\/images\/dogs.jpg<\/code>, add the following to your robots.txt<br \/>\n  file:\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\n  The next time Google crawls the <code>dogs.jpg<\/code> image, we&#8217;ll see this rule and drop your<br \/>\n  image from our search results.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Rules may include<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-txt-syntax\/#url-matching-based-on-path-values\">special characters<\/a><br \/>\n  for more flexibility and control. Specifically, the <code>*<\/code> character matches any sequence<br \/>\n  of characters which lets you to match multiple image paths with one rule.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  To remove multiple images on your site from Google&#8217;s index, add a <code>disallow<\/code> rule for<br \/>\n  each image, or if the images share a common pattern such as a suffix in the filename, use a<br \/>\n  the <code>*<\/code> character in the filename. For example:\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\n  To remove all the images on your site from our index, place the following rule in your robots.txt<br \/>\n  file:\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\n  To remove all files of a specific file type (for example, to include <code>.jpg<\/code> but not<br \/>\n  <code>.gif<\/code> images), you&#8217;d use the following robots.txt entry:\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\n  By specifying <code>Googlebot-Image<\/code> as the <code>User-agent<\/code>, the images will be<br \/>\n  excluded from Google Images. If you would like to exclude the images from all Google searches<br \/>\n  (including Google Search and Google Images), specify the <code>Googlebot<\/code> user agent.\n<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"noindex\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n  Remove images with the <code>noindex<\/code> <code>X-Robots-Tag<\/code> HTTP header<br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\n  Alternatively, you can remove images hosted on your site from Google&#8217;s search results by<br \/>\n  adding the <code>noindex<\/code> <code>X-Robots-Tag<\/code> to the HTTP response headers of the<br \/>\n  images you want to remove. In this case you must allow crawling the image URLs in order for<br \/>\n  Googlebot to be able to extract the <code>noindex<\/code> rule. To implement the<br \/>\n  <code>noindex<\/code> <code>X-Robots-Tag<\/code> HTTP response header,<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/robots-meta-tag\/#xrobotstag-implementation\">follow our documentation about <code>noindex<\/code><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Note that adding the <code>noimageindex<\/code> robots tag to a particular page will also prevent<br \/>\n  that images embedded in that page from getting indexed. However, if the same images also appear in<br \/>\n  other pages, they might get indexed through those pages. To make sure a particular image is<br \/>\n  blocked no matter where it appears, use the <code>noindex<\/code> <code>X-Robots-Tag<\/code> HTTP<br \/>\n  response header.\n<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-do-i-remove-images-from-properties-that-i-dont-own\" tabindex=\"-1\">How do I remove images from properties that I don&#8217;t own?<\/h2>\n<p>\n  See the<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/websearch\/answer\/4628134\" class=\"external-link\">Google Search help documentation on how to remove an image from search results<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A robots.txt file can prevent images from appearing in search results. 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