We found out that a reverse image search on google images was able to link to a set of images that are on Private Pages.

Is there a plugin that can fully protect these images? if not what coding technique can achieve this wizardry?

We found out that a reverse image search on google images was able to link to a set of images that are on Private Pages.

Is there a plugin that can fully protect these images? if not what coding technique can achieve this wizardry?

• private
• google-search
• search-engines

• You can try to use robots.txt methods to block crawlers on indexing certain folders or images. varvy/robottxt.html – middlelady Commented Apr 3, 2019 at 19:16
• i think this will do the trick! wordpress/plugins/private-uploads – Arturino Commented Apr 4, 2019 at 21:21

1 Answer 1

I don't know about a plugin, but if you could just add the img URLs to your Disallows in robots.txt.

Also, Google is probably getting the image URL from the image sitemap.