Joomla Talk

[fwpro145]

This file is found in Joomla and appears to limit the indexing of images and certain other content by Google making it near impossible to get good SEO results. Here is what it looks like:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/

Which ones can we remove from the list and is it still safe for our website? I have an image based website (with news articles) and just found out that this is the reason I am not anywhere to be found on Google Image Search.

Thank-you.

[jonahh]

Only thing i would allow out of that list is /components

[fwpro145]

I read on other forum that my images are not indexed because of this so I adjusted by removing both Images and Media. Is there a reason why you would only remove Components?

Thank-you.

[jonahh]

Because this is the only directory that your site uses to create frontend urls from that google will see.  no reason for the bots to look in the other folders.  As for images and media most likely that is the reason for them not showing in image results I was only thinking for content and URLs so if you want your images in the results disallow those 2 folders also