no, images don't count, so if your planning to have banner exchanges, you should put anchor text below them.
He's apparently talking about hotlinking images from another site - do the hotlinked images count as backlinks to the site. No, they apparently don't. But, watch out: not only are you stealing bandwidth from that person, you are also in danger of them trading that nice image out for a very nasty one if they discover you and don't like what you're doing. Better just to download the image to your harddrive & upload it to your site.
Well Hot links can trackdown its not good using them. But I asked coz i saw a huge debate about this another forum. What if you make it as a image link ? link back to the site. Im not talking about the one who make the hot link but about the original site owner. do they count as back links to the original site ?
If the other website which uses your image on their website is linking back to your website then it will surely be counted as a backlink. Example : Many people use Imageshack.us service and upload images there and when they link to the images from forums or websites they normally use the code which links back to imageshack.us website. This is the reason imageshack.us has got just 3,666,571 backlinks
Uh, it's still kind of early here, but I think it MIGHT count as a backlink to that specific image - but not to the page on which the image sits. And why would you want any linking boost to just an image? You want a boost to a page that image sits on, where your advertising is. A link to an image sitting on your server (or hosting account) does you no good. You want people looking at that image WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF YOUR SITE - i.e., with your logo and advertising surrounding it.
But in case of imageshack thumbnails are linked backed to the full res picture which is displayed on an imageshack page.
<img src="yourdomain.com/wow.gif"> = no backlink weight. <a href="yourdomain.com/wow.gif"><img src="yourdomain.com/wow.gif"></a> = yes backlink weight Not the best backlink but it still helps [the domain] on the whole.
Wyla's correct. I would also add the alt and title attributes just for luck. <a href="yourdomain.com/wow.gif" title="Keyword phrase"><img src="yourdomain.com/wow.gif" alt="Keyword phrase" ></a> = yes backlink weight
the question was about hotlinking...meaning displaying an image that is not stored on your server....it is not counted as a link...