Check out this thief website. I don't have cPanel, so I was treading slowing in creating an .htaccess file, but thanks to help from DP family members, I have one in place. However, I'm having some issues on specific "allows" for places, like DP that I do want to be able to post my pics. Let's try ... EDIT: Cool, my "exception" for DigitalPoint seems to be working
This page of mine gets ripped off constantly or at least they try to rip it off. I have this show up when people try and steal the pictures. Works great. There are sites that have been displaying that image for well over a year now. I do have a question though. I have all those car pictures in a separate directory with it's own .htaccess file. I have most of my other images in another directory and don't really want to completely block linking but I would like to block a couple specific site (mainly myspace). Anyone know how to do that? I know how to block all sites and allow some but I don't know how to allow most and block some. Thanks
Upon reading this thread and I checked my stats and totally have someone hotlinking to my pics. Unfortunatly my logs just say http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm instead of the full url. Plus I'm not sure which pics is being used... I'm gonna have a major temper tantrum if I cannot figure out the specifics on the to optimize my revenge
Wow a lot of myspace users steal my pics. I was hoping to make new custom pic with the person's name ei:"John Smith likes making love to sheep". There isn't anyway to turn these in to backlinks is there?
img tags do count as baclkinks (in google at least), thats why while you dont want to dissuade it, you want to minimize its impact.
Well here's a company that didn't get the memo - they were responsive, helpful, and expedient. I've had zero luck ever trying to deal with online communities and rarely even take the time to report offending sites as it mere equates to wasted time .... Lycos changed my perspective - take a quick look
So everyone has here said what they do but a few code examples would sure be great for us novices. I am looking for a method that would allow us to still provide images but get some marketing in return. I'm trying to do one of two options: 1) replace image with image and html text below it. Click here to see more images. This would still let users use the image and we would get some traffic. 2) or option 1 plus the image being linked to our webpage. Anyone with this sort of code please send it out. Thanks,
I run a couple celeb sites and get hotlinked pretty bad. I have also changed some images to my benefit. I use hundreds of gigs a month in bandwidth, so I am not too concerned with small theives. However, one day my site shut down. I had 100,000 hits within a few hours! It was coming from a site http://www.nciv.nl/ Interesting site. I have admitedly used it since, but I had to block all sites with .htacess file. Since I am pretty clueless, I was lucky that my host support added it for me. On some of my new sites, I am seeing images get hotlinked. I'll let it go for a while and then maybe swap images. I read a one of ShoeMoeny's blog posts on this: "How to prevent scraping of web pages? Well this is pretty much impossible. Its the double edged sword to SEO. You want to make your site nice and index able by search engines yet you don’t want to make it easy to be read by scrapers. This may come as a shock but I do not even try to prevent scraping and pirating. Every document taken from my server has a randomly generatedfilename.zip and included in the archive is a README.html file which contains information about my originating site and also contains a 10$ paypal donation button. I started doing this about 3 years ago and in 2005 I averaged about 80$ a day in paypal donations alone. (that is about 30k/yr for those of you in Rio Linda). Considering theses are only spread through my archived files I think this is a nice ADDON bonus income." Shoemoney It sounds awesome, but I haven't a clue how to implement something like that. Anyone know, I would be most grateful.
I've had hotlinking protection on through .htaccess, and never had a problem with bandwidth thieves. I just block the images, rather than substituting something else. I do wonder, however, if I should go to the trouble of watermarking all my images anyway. Because if people can't hotlink then they may just copy the images direct to their webspace. If I put a difficult-to-remove watermark over them then that's free advertising I could be getting. The trouble is, because I disabled hotlinking there's no evidence in my logs that would tell me how popular my images would be with hotlinkers. This might be something that happens very rarely for me.