9259 sites linking to a picture on my site, does it help?

Having the links pointing to a jpg file on your domain does not help much at all. Spiders will follow the link and see nothing when they get there.

DO THE REDIRECT PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED. Redirect it to a page that has the photo on it. This way people following the link and expecting to see a pic will still see it. And the SE bots get to find some content when they crawl the link, and can see the rest of your site from your nav links.

A mere watermark is not enough. Don't waste these links and the traffic.

redirect asap

 

hahaha... hilarious. nice one

 

O.K. Redirect sounds good but how do you redirect a request for a jpg to a html page? As far as I know you can only redirect to another image file.

 

You're redirecting a URL with a 301 redirect in .htaccess. You can redirect it to any URL you like.

 

But, if I redirect it, the image will no longer show on blogs or anything.

Here's a good example: http://www.30kchallenge.com/blog/

Now, if I were to redirect the picture to an html page, the picture on that blog wouldn't show up any longer. There is really nothing I can do I don't think.
Any ideas?

 

shoot, your right about that. Wait till these blogs add new content and your post gets burried. Add the redirect after you see there are not many hits to the pic any longer.

 

Oh well, lesson learned. =[

You guys think it will end up in Google Images maybe for the keyword "funny" or something?
The picture is also named "funny.jpg"
That would be a positive form this entire ordeal. =\

 

redirect to a page that has the picture on it, but on the page change the name of the actual image file and disable it from being hotlinked.

 

Nice capture.

 

omg that pic is hilarious!

 

just use photoshop for watermark.

 

Personally in this case I wouldn't do a redirect, as its basically been offered up as an image to thousands of bloggers etc, many of whom have linked it up. IMO if you now turn around and put up a redirect, you will lose face.

If it were me, I would watermark that current pic at its existing URL. Even if those untold millions of people seeing the picture may not type in your URL, you're still getting it seen.... and once people start seeing a sites URL over and over, it becomes known, and mentioned elsewhere.

A slower result than the snatch and grab redirect, but more long term IMO.

 

Hahaha i saw that pic on collegehumor.com
But it has their watermark.

 

I would do what everyone said and redirect the picture. Also It probably a good lesson to everyone to watermark their images.