For some odd reason my post Blog is the new magazine was consistently my highest trafficked post. If you look under “Greatest Hits” in my sidebar, it’s on top. I couldn’t figure out why until I saw that I was getting hits from Google for the term “magazine”.
I Googled the term only to not find a link to my site in the first 10 pages. Then I clicked image search, and I saw the image I used in that post (now removed) as the second result. The hits we’re not “legitimate” but were just people scraping the image from Google search. Usually not a big deal, but then the hotlinks started to come.
Seriously, I warned them.
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If anything good comes from hotlinking, it’s the ability to mess with hotlinkers.
A Boston Redsox fan stole one of my Yankee images one time, so I made him a Yankee fan.
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Kudos. Excellent move. If only it was their site banner.
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Too bad they both stink
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I am a closet hot linker. It isn’t anything I am proud of, but I can’t help it – it’s a sickness. It started with free music, then free video, now free images. I need an intervention. I got off the free media cold – oh how it burned – but now I have to kick the hotlinking habit. I am going to do this for you, Sean Blanda, Internet Jesus.