Turning A Hotlinked Image Into A Backlink?

Hey everyone
I have noticed a lot of sites hotlinking to animated gifs on my site. Which is fine, lack of bandwidth isn't really an issue for me yet. But is there a way I can automatically turn one of these gif images into a live link?

 

No, you can only really do that with a flash file

 

If you find the answer let me know

 

Simplest answer is always the best... How about emailing them and asking?

 

Just contact them and tell them that you don't mind, but if they could put a link back to your site, that's would be nice.

I did it, and many of them gave me a link. Other removed the hotlink.

It's not automatic, but it's work.

 

I think its actually a great way get links.

• You create some kickass image, or controversial image
• it spreads
• You do a yahoo link search for the image URL in Y!
• Email all of the webmasters that stole your image
• Find a page of theirs you want a link on and kindly ask for it.

You could end up getting some quality backlinks that way. Much quicker than with article or directory submissions, its a one-way link, and you can choose a quality relevant page.

Its like a link exchange only not conventionally trackable by G

 

You could also watermark your URL. Not that you'd build backlinks, but at least create some awareness if the photo becomes popular

 

Now there's some great initiative to make something out of nothing. Green for you.

Col

 

Awesome idea
Think I'll try that!

 

Ok I'm trying a little experiment, hopefully people will use the code if they find the animations "avatar worthy"
http://www.your3dsource.com/animated-avatars-gifs.html