Re: Prevent indexing images <img>

sitemaps should be dynamically updated or they go stale quickly.

But back to rel - I know it is currently used for relationship with 
external document, but reality is, it's instructions to indexers.

things like rel="nofollow" are so specific to search engines they cause 
confusion to some users who don't want to use the attribute because they 
psychologically want their users to follow it (e.g. affiliate marketing) 
and the phrase "nofollow" is counter to that.

I don't think a second attribute to instruct search engines is needed, 
just expand the definition of rel to also encompass the relationship of 
the node to the document when it isn't a node that generally links to an 
external source (such as a[nchor] and link)

With the source element, the meaning of the attribute (and what 
attributes are legal) changes depending upon the parent node, so there 
is precedence for context influence attribute meaning already.

On 03/10/2015 01:03 PM, contact@aurelienlheureux.com wrote:
> @Andrea :
> Could you give me an exemple of code ? but this way need to specify
> height and width ? The advantage of image tag is the autodetection of
> these properties.
>
> e.g. I have a character in my html page animated with jquery and i want
> that the page to be responsive and i can't use breakpoint.
> I have just to specified percentage width and let the height adjust itself.
> When I resize the window, the character resizes itself, and jquery
> calculates news coordinate for the animation.
>
> Anyway, aside from my example that was just here to bring my thoughts, I
> supposed that others persons had maybe encountered this problems of some
> unwanted indexed images.
>
> By the way, concerning  the intellectual property, I agree with Michael.
> You can reproduce an illegal situation of a copying a book on a html
> page, use the noindex meta tag and diffuses it even if you are not the
> author, it is probably illegal, but you can do it.
>
> @Michael
> Rel attribute is used for a relationship with another external document
> from a source to a target, but considering that an image is already
> included in the content, this would make it to do a relationship from
> the source to the source, do not you think ?
>
> A sitemap image node could be indeed another approach.
> The subtilitie is that with an attribute you can change the src of image
> without impact the fact that you don't want that this image particulary
> is indexed. Moreover with a dynamic content displayed with a loop, you
> can specify this attribute without take into account the image source.
> Finally you can apply the non indexation on a fully range.
>
> Whereas the sitemap need to be continually updated with the sources
> unwanted.
>
>
>
> Le 10/03/2015 13:32, Michael A. Peters a écrit :
>> What about something like rel="nofollow" ??
>>
>> That's what we do when we don't a link to be construed as related to
>> our page content itself (e.g. an advertisement)
>>
>> But perhaps the right place for this isn't in the html itself but in
>> the sitemap file - maybe an image:priority child of the image:image node.
>>
>> As far as intellectual property implications :
>>
>> A) It is not the job of HTML itself to protect intellectual property
>>
>> B) If it isn't being indexed in the image search, then it may still be
>> an intellectual property violation, but at least isn't one that is
>> bringing new business to the site away from the real intellectual
>> property owner.
>>
>> On 03/10/2015 03:42 AM, Andrea Rendine wrote:
>>> Hi Aurélien
>>> I haven't tested any case yet, but I usually prefer to maintain graphic
>>> elements and page content separated in my pages too.
>>> Now, it depends on what you mean by "no choice but to use an image
>>> instead of ...css".
>>> I incorporate graphical elements in form of transparent 1px gif images
>>> and use the "real" graphic as a CSS background element.
>>> Then I wrap all the content which is to be replaced by the image in an
>>> element with display:none, so that only the graphic appears.
>>> Would this solution help you?
>>> BTW, I don't think that such an attribute could be implemented.
>>> As a very basic caveat, consider the malicious use that could be done of
>>> such an attribute, hiding potentially illegal content present in the
>>> page.
>>> Regards,
>>> Andrea
>
>
> Le 10.03.2015 13:32, Michael A. Peters a écrit :
>> What about something like rel="nofollow" ??
>>
>> That's what we do when we don't a link to be construed as related to
>> our page content itself (e.g. an advertisement)
>>
>> But perhaps the right place for this isn't in the html itself but in
>> the sitemap file - maybe an image:priority child of the image:image
>> node.
>>
>> As far as intellectual property implications :
>>
>> A) It is not the job of HTML itself to protect intellectual property
>>
>> B) If it isn't being indexed in the image search, then it may still be
>> an intellectual property violation, but at least isn't one that is
>> bringing new business to the site away from the real intellectual
>> property owner.
>>
>> On 03/10/2015 03:42 AM, Andrea Rendine wrote:
>>> Hi Aurélien
>>> I haven't tested any case yet, but I usually prefer to maintain graphic
>>> elements and page content separated in my pages too.
>>> Now, it depends on what you mean by "no choice but to use an image
>>> instead of ...css".
>>> I incorporate graphical elements in form of transparent 1px gif images
>>> and use the "real" graphic as a CSS background element.
>>> Then I wrap all the content which is to be replaced by the image in an
>>> element with display:none, so that only the graphic appears.
>>> Would this solution help you?
>>> BTW, I don't think that such an attribute could be implemented.
>>> As a very basic caveat, consider the malicious use that could be done of
>>> such an attribute, hiding potentially illegal content present in the
>>> page.
>>> Regards,
>>> Andrea

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