The purpose of this post is to review best practices for image search, also to inform people who haven't heard, you can now include images in your XML sitemaps.
This article comes on the heels of a few website redesigns and relaunches that the SEO team and I have had to work through over here at People To My Site.
It has become common practice to implement robot.txt files to prevent the search engine spiders from crawling your webpage and having it show up in the search engine results page (SERP).