Google Crediting others for your Work

Hello.

Well, there are a few images I have that are actually hosted on my website and someone is just sharing the direct link to my images on his website page where-as I myself share the direct link of those images on my pages too.


At Google Images search,

I see my images but "Website for this Image" button shows another website instead of mine.


How can I get it right ?

 

Look up image hotlink protection and you should find scripts you can use. They'll still be using your images, but if they do whoever views their site will see a message instead of the image so they won't bother leeching off you.

 

Ok its a Wordpress plugin right ?

And it won't affect SEO for my website in Google right ? Like it may cause my images not to appear in Google at direct links ?

 

Use this Hotlink Protection script generator to create a .htaccess file for your site. Add your domain and images.google.* to the allowed list to permit your own site to use the images and all Google image servers.

 

Would this do it for adding domains:

Just to be secure,

Also, Google gives the direct-link to my image indexing that site, this would still cause Google to index the image but what benefit would I get ?

 

Once you have put the hotlink script up the image will no longer display on the third party site, thus the only way Google will find that image is from your site and the link credit will be put to your site. Note that it may take a little while for all these changes to take effect, but the first step is blocking the hotlinking so that the third party site can no longer display your images.

If it transpires that they have not hotlinked but have instead stolen the images and are hosting them on their own server, then send a DMCA to their hosting company to have their sites taken offline. You will need to go over to the legal section of the forum for more advice on this.

 

Hello.

This is the text generated out of the hotlink protection:

But due to some reason it won't work when I add it to the index of my htaccess file. 500 error at my website

 

Not sure, but try also adding www.mixupdate.com

 

Ok.

I've added this:

This works but then more than half of the images do not work fine or even display a thumbnail, on clicking they just redirect to www.mixupdate.com as specified. But quite a number are working. Not sure why others wont work ?

 

Change it to this and let us know how that works:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?mixupdate.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.|images\.)?google.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.|images\.search\.)?yahoo.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?bing.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ - [NC,F,L]

Code (markup):

This should allow your site, all Google servers, all Yahoo servers and all Bing servers.

 

It works good but only in Firefox

And even in Firefox, when I redirect like this:

Instead of redirecting, instead it says No Index file at that link.

 

Only Firefox is detecting that.

Not even Internet Explorer, nor Opera.

 

I'm not sure that you can redirect like that because it would be a form of browser hijacking when an image is attempted to load from a third party web site.... the browser is expecting you to return an image because that is what was originally requested or nothing, e.g. what was originally provided.

 

Well, it does redirect like that and I saw it working.

However even without the redirect or with, the hotlink protection doesn't work for Opera or Internet Explorer and works for Firefox only at half of the images.

What could be the issue ?

By working I mean, my website and Google servers are stilll able to access the image, but the website that had my image is also able to access it.

 

This is not how it is designed to work. As I said, this would constitute a form of hijacking.

What else do you have in the .htaccess file?

What is the third party web site which is using your image? PM it to me if you don't want to mention it in public.

 

Ok I've PM'd that to you . Thanks!

 

Ok, couple of things:

1. The code appears to be working fine for me. I tested the URL you gave me in Firefox and IE. If you are still seeing the images please make sure you are not loading the site from cache by hitting CTRL + F5 when viewing the page.

2. To block images from multiple URL's, you need to add the .htaccess file to each domain and replace mixupdate.com with the domain you are adding it to.

 

Are you sure, it's working for you ?

I've tried deleting cache and cookies, and all history but it doesn't work. Even tried on other computers.

It maybe that you have older version of Firefox or IE, also try Opera.

Even in firefox, it works partially.

 

Yes I am sure it's working for me. Browser version makes no difference, it's server side.... although I do have the latest IE and FF.

I just tested the URL you gave me again and CTRL + F5 the page. The first and second image don't load (I know the second is not yours) and the 9th and 10th image on the page don't load. Thus, it's working.

 

Ok, do you see the redirect to website home-page ?

Not sure why it won't work for me. I've tried that on like 10 machines and 10 proxy websites too.

Do you use Msn, Yahoo or Skype ?