Will blocking google and SE's from indexing images hurt SEO?

[James77]

Hi,

We have a bit of a problem where on a website we are managing, there are thousands of "Dynamically" re-sized images. These are stressing out the server as on any page there could be upto 100 dynamically re-sized images.

Google alone is indexing 50,000 pages a day, so multiply that by the number of images and it is a huge drag on the server.

I was wondering if it maybe an idea to blog Robots (in robots.txt) from indexing all the images in the image file, to reduce the server load until we have a proper fix in place.

We don't get any real value from having our website images in "Google Images" so I am wondering if this could be a safe way of reducing server load?

Are there any other potential SEO issues this could cause??

Thanks

[AlanMosley]

Besides the google images thing you said you dont care about, I dont think you will have a problem.

I have seem where Matt Cutts has said that having items blocked from indexing is a signall of spam, but should not be a problemm alone. But if somthing else gives a signal of spam, then hiding css, js and img files can be seen as suss.