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About a month ago, we asked our readers if they are or plan on blocking Google Images after they noticed a huge drop in traffic since the new image search design launched.
The results are now in and while 37% said they will not block Google from indexing and ranking their images, 35% said they will or have blocked Google Images. Currently 28% are not sure what they should do in this situation, which likely means they will just keep the status queue. Here are the poll results:
- 11% already blocked Google Images
- 24% will soon block Google Images
- 27% will not block Google images
- 28% are not sure if they will or will not block Google Images
Here is the pie chart:
Forum discussion continued at WebmasterWorld.
Disclaimer: Please see my poll disclaimer post before coming to any conclusions on these results.
This story was scheduled to be posted today and was not written today, as I am offline today.
Comments:
ethalon
05/16/2013 12:48 pm
This just in: 35% decide to shoot themselves in the foot after they stubbed their toe.
StevenLockey
05/16/2013 02:16 pm
I think you mean Status Quo not Status Queue Barry :) I bet thats a spell-checker fail there :)
Guest
05/16/2013 02:17 pm
Heh, I think you mean Status Quo, Not Status Queue Barry, bet thats a spell-checker error there ;)
Josh
05/16/2013 03:23 pm
*rolls eyes*. Less competition for me, at least.
Barry Schwartz
05/17/2013 02:11 am
:) I guess I should just leave it now. :)
Guest
05/17/2013 04:57 am
How do I block Google images? I'll block...I get virtually no traffic from them any more anyway
Mathieu Chimei
05/17/2013 04:59 am
How do I block Google images? I'll block. I don't get views from them any more anyway.
Mathieu Chimei
05/17/2013 05:00 am
no wait...I need to steal images from there and use them...I guess 37% of others already thought of that
Jimmy Maddox
05/17/2013 02:59 pm
Jimmy Maddox
05/17/2013 03:01 pm
im sure Google , knowing them, will have a way to penalize sites who block images... kind of like IRS going after teabaggers for their beliefs....
Fedor
05/17/2013 07:36 pm
There are hijacking/redirect scripts already running in the new image search. The only thing they did with the update is eliminate the phantom pageloads.
Bob
05/20/2013 01:42 am
i will block, sure
Salman
05/21/2013 09:58 am
Add this to your robots.txt file: User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: /