Hello again,

I notice all my images related to my K2 module are stored here:

www.mysite.com/media/k2/items/cache/

Therefore, if I want these crawled by googlebot etc, should I have the following line in my robots.txt:

Allow: /media/k2/items/cache/


Thanks!!

Hello boodoo,

By default Joomla! (not K2) blocks the media and images folders from robots.
You can comment out these two lines in your robots.txt with a hashtag.

Thanks for the reply.

If I do not allow bots to crawl the /media/ folder (via robots.txt), will the K2 comments on my website still be crawled if I have links to that page?

This is a template specific issue. Some templates have rel="nofollow" attributes in the comments sections.
If they don't have something like that then it's up to the search engine to honour the no-index request.

Thanks Krikor,

Last question. If I want my K2 images to be crawled by google image bot for example, which line should I add to my robots.txt (one with trailing backslash and one without).

Allow: /media/k2/items/cache/

or

Allow: /media/k2/items/cache

As I said I would comment out the entire Disallow: media and Disallow: images rules in your position