images, hotlinking and the weight

I am finding it little difficult to ask a direct question so let me explain the scenario.

Say we have an image with url somesite.com/images/picp.jpg

and some other site say bandwidththief.com hotlinks to that image picp.jpg

I think its clear that bandwidththief.com site is passing some PR weight to that image (correct me if I am wrong here).

So how can we pass this weight (or even some portion of) to the our somesite.com homepage?

If the exact scenario is not possible then please suggest any other similar one.

Jack

 

i really don't wish to bump this thread but seriously does no one knows answer to this question?

 

I don't think you can pass PR to an image. Get them to link to a page instead.

 

I'm not sure if pr can be passed off to an image. The only way that would happen as far as I know is if the image is on a real page. If the thief is infact passing pr to the image then I would just put a link on the image to the page that you want to pass the pr off to. Or just do a redirect.

Does that make sence.

 

to my knowledge, you can only pass PR to pages, not images. As has been said above...I would just redirect if it is a worry...

Best;

Eric

 

like i said before even if the image is on some page it still have its own url and if the thief uses that url and not the page's url then it won't work.

 

Only links in the form <a href=".... can pass PR. Images don't pass PR. What would be the point of images having PR?

 

If a site hot links to an image on my site, isn't that essentially a vote for content on my site?

Would google or other search engines give any kind of PR boost to my site?

It seems like they should give something.

 

no i don't think so.how come an image get a weight ? and even if it gets then thats for single image only, you can't transfer it to any of your html pages. can you?