Hey everyone I have noticed a lot of sites hotlinking to animated gifs on my site. Which is fine, lack of bandwidth isn't really an issue for me yet. But is there a way I can automatically turn one of these gif images into a live link?
Just contact them and tell them that you don't mind, but if they could put a link back to your site, that's would be nice. I did it, and many of them gave me a link. Other removed the hotlink. It's not automatic, but it's work.
I think its actually a great way get links. You create some kickass image, or controversial image it spreads You do a yahoo link search for the image URL in Y! Email all of the webmasters that stole your image Find a page of theirs you want a link on and kindly ask for it. You could end up getting some quality backlinks that way. Much quicker than with article or directory submissions, its a one-way link, and you can choose a quality relevant page. Its like a link exchange only not conventionally trackable by G
You could also watermark your URL. Not that you'd build backlinks, but at least create some awareness if the photo becomes popular
Ok I'm trying a little experiment, hopefully people will use the code if they find the animations "avatar worthy" http://www.your3dsource.com/animated-avatars-gifs.html