Mon
Jul
07

What happens when you hotlink me

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.

4 Comments

  1. 7/7/2008 at 10:50 pm
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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.

  2. 7/7/2008 at 10:51 pm
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    Kudos. Excellent move. If only it was their site banner.

  3. 7/7/2008 at 11:06 pm
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    Blanda

    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.

    Too bad they both stink :-P .

  4. 7/8/2008 at 1:01 pm
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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.

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