Comments on: Free Website Marketing! Try Hotlinked-Image

By: Fernando Hal

Fernando Hal — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:43:46 +0000

Great. Hope this post is useful for you and others as well…

By: Held

Held — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:14:39 +0000

AMEN Brother! Damn I wish I had read this before leaving my comment on the �Social Media Post� because just reading this now has my mind working at 160mph.

By: I Love The Web » Blog Archive » Image Hotlinking, Good idea, Bad idea ?

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:25:33 +0000

[...] There are numerous examples of web masters discouraging this behavior including this ingenuous example where the hotlinked images are swaped with images advertising the original site. Which led my thoughts to pupularity in page ranking. As you may know, when you talk about page ranking, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a very relevant topic. [...]

By: demonsurfer

demonsurfer — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 19:01:53 +0000

bah.. didn't display very well. first line:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?YOURWEBSITE\.com/ [NC]

next line: RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?SOMEALLOWEDWEBSITE\.com/ [NC] next line: RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ next line: RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /path relative to htaccess file/ALTERNATEIMAGE.jpe [L]

By: demonsurfer

demonsurfer — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:55:54 +0000

use a .htaccess file – much easier. eg:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?YOURWEBSITE\.com/ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?SOMEALLOWEDWEBSITE\.com/ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/blogpics/bandwidththeft.jpe [L]

The first line obviously means you don’t block your own site, the second is an example of adding another website to allow them to hotlink your images, and that last line determines which type of files are blocked and the image that is displayed instead when someone tries to hotlink one of those files (note extension is .jpe).

Save this file as .htaccess (yes, it starts with a .) and place it in your main directory – anything in that directory (including other directories within it) will be dealt with.

By: nortypig

nortypig — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:49:07 +0000

serving them your ads and paying for the bandwidth isn’t so bad at all. Since I did it on MySpace accounts who were sucking my bandwidth by hotlinking to images my traffic has increased somewhat significantly…

i just never liked paying for their visual enjoyment lol.

Great stuff, one more for the good guys Dont’ get even get advertising.

By: Cracker

Cracker — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:20:02 +0000

i mean their site

By: Cracker

Cracker — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:19:35 +0000

and codding it with php is not a complete sollution as any 1 can save that page upload images on any image hosting site and than any body can publish it on that site.