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Google may still index pages excluded by robots.txt if the pages are backlinked either internally or externally. For best results, use meta noindex to tell search engines they're not allowed to show the link in results, and meta nofollow to tell robots not to follow any links on the page. Webmaster Tools Help: Using meta tags to block access to your site You can also explicitly address goooglebot in the meta tag, as opposed to just robots. If you use both a robots.txt and meta robots tags and there are conflicting directives,  googlebot will follow the most restrictive one.

Shalom - Your blocking the images folder in your robots.txt file.

Thanks for your feedback, but I'm talking about newspaper websites in particular. Would you use this for a news website? Also, if you have the budget how would you go about link building? From what I gather, all budget, time and effort should be put in towards generating interesting content and then promoting it via all possible channels on the internet. Right?