I have grown tired of Google Image search and wish to attract visitors to this site for something other than a picture…

To that end, I have created a robots.txt file that tells the spiders and Google bots to NOT index directories which hold pictures.

It has worked like a charm. I’m now registering hits from normal readers (you guys) and standard Google search strings. Well, some aren’t so standard, but at least I don’t get any more hits in from image searches…

Or so I thought…

*sigh*

There is one post I wrote back on August 28, 2006 in which I joked about Google ratings and certain search strings. In doing so, I referred to the amount of traffic the good people over at File It Under receive concerning a certain actress and a certain picture of her undergarments being exposed as she bent over to tie her shoes which carries with it a funny euphemism. All because they posted a picture of said event.

Notice how vague I’m being.

There is a reason.

I can’t get the Google Bots to stop indexing that post in image searches. The reason being I linked to the picture over at File It Under, rather than host the picture on my site. As a result, they still keep indexing that picture.

My solution? I deleted the link to the offending picture.

As of today, I’m still not having any luck.

Here is a screen shot:

Out of the 20 visitors shown, 11 of them came looking for that one picture. This is typical.