Judy, The Search Engine Bot is getting the urls of your images from the links on pages that it has indexed, and without being able to use a .htaccess file or robots.txt, your options are limited. If you do not place an index.htm file in the images directory, anyone can easily get to the directory, and on doing so will be presented with a list of files. Needless to say, they can quickly be harvested. The short answer is, if you don't want images falling into the wrong hands, don't publish them on the web. An image can be published without the SE bot indexing it by using the following method:- <style> #imgOne {/* adjust url and dimensions to suit */ width:128px; height:128px; background: url('images/mypic.jpg'); } span.layer {/* this is to counter the "right-click" brigade */ position:relative; z-index:10; display:block; width:100%; height:100%; background: url(images/trans-10.png);/* 10px x 10px transparent img */ } </style> <div id="imgOne"> <span class="layer"></span> <div> That could stop 99.999% of viewers getting hold of the images, but those that know how will still get them, as there are other means available to recover them from the page. Though in the case above, the wrong people would normally have no reason to be viewing your page, i.e. the images would not appear in Search Engine results.