Comments on: How to Protect Yourself from Hotlinkers

By: Cher Lloyd X Factor

Cher Lloyd X Factor — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:27:04 +0000

Thanks for the information. I'v not heard of hot linking before, but I'll bear it in mind

By: cher lloyd

cher lloyd — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:01:54 +0000

Never heard of hotlinking before until my brother got a letter from his isp telling him that his bandwidth for that month had been exceeded. He though he had unlimited but it had gone over the fairplay usage amounts and it was only when looking at his files he found that he had been "hotlinked"- lesson learnt!

By: Marbella Property

Marbella Property — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:07:24 +0000

We have to take a look at the source before using that they have been affected by Hot linkers or not!

By: Sulumits Retsambew

Sulumits Retsambew — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:05:06 +0000

Very helpful tricks. The question is it really save for google?

By: gas cards

gas cards — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:41:19 +0000

I have a question… I'd like to implement a form of blocking the hotlinkers… but How do I find who is hotlinking my content? I would rather see the website that is using my stuff first before taking any action.

-Randy

By: MBTraining

MBTraining — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:54:57 +0000

Yet another great post! When I started paying attention to my weblogs I was seeing strange URLs and didn't understand what they were. Today after reading this post I went back to a copy of my stats and realized that there are several webmasters (or so called masters) that were linking not only to my images but also taking copies of my entire webpage in order for them to publish my material on their websites as my affiliate. Thanks to you I now know my problem and exactly what I have to do to address the problem altogether.

By: Tnomeralc web

Tnomeralc web — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:58:27 +0000

nice tricks, I was looking for a way to use the swf to redirect the scrapper site to my arcade site and found this site. I have already implemented this to save some bandwidth. Now looking for solution for site scrapper.

By: thank you

thank you — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:18:27 +0000

thanks for the info, protection is a must

By: iPod

iPod — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:33:42 +0000

Someone was hotlinking to my image and I just simply emailed them asking for a link back. They replied and said, "sure". Saved me from having to do all this redirecting stuff (goes straight over my head)

Stan

By: Webmaster Radio

Webmaster Radio — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:40:56 +0000

Image Hotlinkers killed my bandwidth a while back, I did the same thing as Busby SEO and added my url to the image and my traffic raised.