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I want my images to not appear on Google image search results.

Itay Taragano
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For any Cloudinary plan

Cloudinary supports adding a custom header of X-Robots-Tag that you can add to all your uploads:

headers=>"X-Robots-Tag: noindex"

For more information on how to upload assets via API, please refer to the Upload API reference.

To add this header to already uploaded assets, please use the Upload API Explicit method. 

Alternatively, you can add `noindex` as a `meta` tag of your page. For more information on this, please refer to the Google Search documentation.

For our Advanced Plan and above

This header can be added globally on our side. If you are interested in this feature, please reach out to support@cloudinary.com or via our help center. 

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9 comments

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  • Fabian Schebanek

    Thanks Itay,

    how can I add this header to all already uploaded files/images in a folder?

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  • Roee Ben Ari
    Edited

    Hi Fabian, sorry for the very late reply. You can add the headers to already existing resources using the Explicit API -> 'headers' parameter.

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  • Ran Rubinstein

    For customers using their own domain to host images , If your images are already indexed, you can claim your domain on Google Webmaster Tools and remove them with that tool. Also, for Cloudinary Enterprise accounts, you can set your own custom robots.txt.

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  • Brian Wright

    noindex header for Fetch method would be ideal and is in my bucket list :-)

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  • Stephen Doyle

    Hi Brian - You could use a script to update your existing resources via the API Roee mentioned above, or use noimageindex on the HTML pages which include your images, that should provide the same effect.

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  • Daniel G.

    Google skips the noimageindex parameter. Some of the images it has indexed despite having it on the web page. 😟

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  • Tamara Yulevich

    Hi Daniel, I'm sorry for the delayed response. Since this is a Google feature, if it's not working as expected, I recommend reaching out to Google support for further assistance.

    Please let me know if there's anything else I can help you with.

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  • Pete Ng

    Is there no way to add this header in the cloudinary admin console?  Do I have to re-upload the image through an api?

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  • Loic Verger Del Bove

    Hi Pete,

    You can add the header as part of an upload preset and use this preset for your uploads. 

    For already existing assets, you can use the Upload API explicit method to pass this header so no need to reupload it.

    Please let me know if there's anything else I can help you with.

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