Comments on: Dealing With Image Hotlinkers http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/ BizExcellerated Internet Marketing: Achieve mastery in blogging, affiliate marketing, social traffic generation at Andrew Wee Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:18:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andrew Wee http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/comment-page-1/#comment-209598 Andrew Wee Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:00:34 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/#comment-209598 I'm not sure about the x-rated pictures on the MSN blog... bait and switching happens all the time, not just with images, but web addresses too. I’m not sure about the x-rated pictures on the MSN blog…
bait and switching happens all the time, not just with images, but web addresses too.

]]> By: Stephan Miller http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/comment-page-1/#comment-202956 Stephan Miller Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:56:02 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/#comment-202956 Users at Stumbleupon did this to me once. I made the mistake of uploading huge pictures to my site. Their photoblogging feature burns a lot of people. I found a way to fix it that only allowed urls on my domain to hit the image folder. But yours is a better ides. Didn't someone use this trick to get an X-rated picture on an MSN blog once. Users at Stumbleupon did this to me once. I made the mistake of uploading huge pictures to my site. Their photoblogging feature burns a lot of people. I found a way to fix it that only allowed urls on my domain to hit the image folder.

But yours is a better ides.

Didn’t someone use this trick to get an X-rated picture on an MSN blog once.

]]> By: Andrew Wee http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/comment-page-1/#comment-202008 Andrew Wee Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:24:55 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/#comment-202008 Hi Con, Thanks for sharing your feedback. There's no assumption that hotlinkers are "evil", though bandwidth leakage still occurs. There's a trade off between emailing all the people who hotlink (and might require further followup - mostly as you say they might be new) and taking immediate action. Hi Con,
Thanks for sharing your feedback.

There’s no assumption that hotlinkers are “evil”, though bandwidth leakage still occurs.

There’s a trade off between emailing all the people who hotlink (and might require further followup – mostly as you say they might be new) and taking immediate action.

]]> By: Andrew Wee http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/comment-page-1/#comment-202005 Andrew Wee Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:23:02 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/#comment-202005 Great resources, it looks interesting on a first glance, and I'll be checking it out. Tks. Great resources, it looks interesting on a first glance, and I’ll be checking it out.

Tks.

]]> By: Con von Hoffman http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/comment-page-1/#comment-201799 Con von Hoffman Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:11:53 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/#comment-201799 I think emailing them first is a good step. I was doing this and didn't even know what the impact was on other sites. Someone swapped a couple of pictures I was linking to with ones similar to those above and I stopped doing it. While that was effective, I would also have responded to a plain old email about it. Don't automatically assume that everyone who does this is evil. Some of us are just plain ignorant. I think emailing them first is a good step. I was doing this and didn’t even know what the impact was on other sites. Someone swapped a couple of pictures I was linking to with ones similar to those above and I stopped doing it. While that was effective, I would also have responded to a plain old email about it. Don’t automatically assume that everyone who does this is evil. Some of us are just plain ignorant.

]]> By: Hawaii SEO http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/comment-page-1/#comment-199377 Hawaii SEO Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:12:44 +0000 http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/social-traffic/dealing-with-image-hotlinkers/#comment-199377 Use this WordPress Plugin. blogstorm.co.uk/blog/build-links-from-google-images/ It's ingenious. You can set it up so you display images hosted on your site and get the benefit from image search but serve an image hosted on flickr to the hotlinkers with a link back to your blog. Use this WordPress Plugin.
blogstorm.co.uk/blog/build-links-from-google-images/

It’s ingenious. You can set it up so you display images hosted on your site and get the benefit from image search but serve an image hosted on flickr to the hotlinkers with a link back to your blog.

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