Image Hosting help.

Discussion in 'General Business' started by Faint, Mar 8, 2008.

  1. #1
    Basically I searched around and can't find the answer to the following things.

    1. When users are linked directly to the full image, how do I redirect to the page with ads? Also, the user should then be able to click the scaled image, which shows them the full sized image.

    2. Is there anyway to change a full sized hot linked image to thumbnail?

    I will be adding +rep to anyone that offers any form of help.

    Thanks :)
     
    Faint, Mar 8, 2008 IP
  2. silveraden

    silveraden Banned

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    There are a lot of free scripts..image hosting scripts that do this... if you are using cpanel..you should have it their in fantastico..

    Basically, I am not 100% sure if I understand your concern..
     
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    That would disable hotlinking completely and still doesn't fix the first issue.
     
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    Are img hosting sites profitable ?
     
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    There are scripts out there that suppose this.

    The idea would be to do it such as this on a forum though:

    (url to page with image and ads)(thumb sized image)(/url to page with image and ads)

    Here is an example from imageshack:
    [​IMG]
     
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    I don't think it's a viable option.

    If that was happening, when you embed the image like this:
    [​IMG] it would show up with an error because the image would have HTML etc coded into it. Do understand what I mean?

    You could watermark images from free clients in a bid to gain some brand awareness or some more traffic, but other than that I don't think theres anything to do this.
     
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    If done correctly it shouldn't do that. There are plenty of image sites that do this. It is needed to get users to see ads, increasing profit.
     
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    Can you show me a few please?
     
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    [​IMG]

    Thumb version works fine though, which is what I want.
     
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    I already have this. I'm trying to get it so that when a user clicks on a DIRECT IMAGE LINK unless the referrer is the same as the site hosting it, it redirects to the scaled image page that has ads.

    None of the solutions presented yet have helped me do this. Yes, hot linking full size images will be disabled, oh well, that is what I would have done in the long run.


    Something similar to this is on the first site I linked look:

    Linking to full image (redirects to page with ads):
    http://www.heyimage.com/files/2wh93uunfugdkfxzr692.jpg

    When you click the image is does a live resize of the image. If I can just get it so that when a person clicks my link to a full image it redirects to the page with ads, I can do the javascript resize.
     
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    ok , ok my question is how to advertise those images ? i saw someome uploaded some ... naked girls .... is not risky to place adsense ?
     
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    Use other ad networks that allow adult content.
     
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    i don't want to allow adult
     
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