Images robots.txt in Webshop

[Happy-SEO]

Hi Guys,

i'm considering to prevent Google to crawl all the images on a webshop (3,432), because a the amount of pages that have to me crawled. Will this affect any search results?

Thanks!

[BlueprintMarketing]

Hi

As a whole images are good and unless you are doing something unhelpful like using duplicate images stolen images etc.

Then keeping Images in Google's index will help especially if using alt text and correctly named will boost your rankings.

it sounds like you have figured out that your  crawl budget is being exhausted and you're not seeing Google index your site properly?

The URL below a larger photo of the one below showing the type of data I hope you have before making this decision Can you tell me how you cut to this conclusion the images should be removed?

This URL: http://i.imgur.com/BE3AOdS.jpg

Can you tell me more about the method in which you determined Google is not indexing your entire site?

I can only tell you what to do if I know more about what is wrong.

strongly recommend you view this slide deck if you would like to know more about your site I can run it on Deep crawl for you.

1. http://www.slideshare.net/annadeepcrawl/laying-the-foundations-of-seo-deepcrawl-semrush
2. http://www.slideshare.net/annadeepcrawl/mark-thomas-10-step-technical-seo-game-plan-annotated-edition-46822641

Sincerely,

Thomas

BE3AOdS.jpg

[DirkC]

Agree with Thomas -  based on the number you give , your site doesn't seem that big. Blocking 3500 images will not change a lot, and it will rather have a negative impact (think about image search).

You might want to check this post on crawl optimisation before taking a decision like that.

Hope this helps,

DIrk

[Happy-SEO]

Thanks!