1/2 of my 404 traffic is Fusker.Leww

**slapass** · 01-30-2005, 08:59 PM

Originally posted by 49thParallel

Wow. I must say that I am surprised by how many webmasters followed this thread and implemented .htaccess. Even a couple of days ago, you could go to fusker and 99% of the galleries showed pics. Now, it's about 1/2 pics and 1/2 red x's or advertising messages.

And slapass, the method for .htaccess you have chosen will work. Just so others know the difference between the htaccess I provided and the one you listed...mine is used to block specific domains, such as fusker. Yours prevents hotlinking from any and all sites, except for your own domain.

The only reason I prefer my method better is that some TGPs pull a thumbnail from your gallery, and display it on their front page, which then links to your full gallery, complete with your advertising. I don't want to block this legitimate use of images.

Gotcha. I do not need to worry about that. I did add a bunch of stuff over there so I could generate so more ads. Lets see if they work.

**Der Schleicher** · 01-30-2005, 09:02 PM

Originally posted by 49thParallel

The traffic is useless. If you dig deeper, you will find that they are not seeing your gallery, only the pics from the gallery. They don't see your advertising. Plus, you can't redirect them. (You can't redirect an image, just an html page).

What I did is put a command in my htaccess file to substitute all images called by fusker with another hotlink image. You can still make money with this. Make the image an ad for your site. And then add some kind of wording the indicates that the surfer must type the url into his browser's address box.

Otherwise, you are simply providing free images to fusker, with no chance of making a penny.

Ditto, ditto.

**slapass** · 02-15-2005, 07:40 AM

update: They convert on AFF. not huge but 200 this month on 10k hits a day. ACC might do better with all the amateur porn pics versus "real" people at AFF but i have my reasons. The switching the pic is not the huge money maker I was hoping for.

**fris** · 02-15-2005, 07:43 AM

i found some interesting stats on fusker.lewww.com on adbrite where you can advertise on their page. they get 2 million page views a day

**Manowar** · 02-15-2005, 08:14 AM

send it to LoudCash - $5 per 1000 impressions.

**emmanuelle** · 02-15-2005, 08:40 AM

Has nobody considered that they are indeed a source of targeted advertising?

They type a keyword into the search to find your images- if they are watermarked, then it's free, targeted advertising.....

**V_RocKs** · 02-15-2005, 09:23 AM

Create a domain that sends the user to your sponsots affiliate code, now put that domain on a banner and send hotlinkers there....

**fris** · 02-15-2005, 09:36 AM

http://www.avnads.com/mb/commerce/pu...1270&rdfrom=ab

**rowan** · 02-15-2005, 12:54 PM

Originally posted by slapass

update: They convert on AFF. not huge but 200 this month on 10k hits a day. ACC might do better with all the amateur porn pics versus "real" people at AFF but i have my reasons. The switching the pic is not the huge money maker I was hoping for.

How do you track this? Dedicated domain or did you manage to cram http://go.adultfriendfinder.com/p398...923324/3128074 into your image?

I wonder how well the paid fusker.lewww advertising converts...

**rowan** · 02-15-2005, 12:56 PM

BTW, I wouldn't mind making 200 bucks (or is that 200 free signups) from serving 300,000 images. Sounds like easy money to me.

**slapass** · 02-15-2005, 08:32 PM

I do not number my images in sequence so they get a 404 if they "look" for the missing image. Not sure how many images i serve.

**jeffrey** · 02-15-2005, 08:40 PM

I have used htaccess to block fusker for a long time... well since I noticed one month refferrers from fusker used 400 gigs of bw.

**slapass** · 02-15-2005, 09:29 PM

I feed them a gif with a URL on it. it is a small gif so not a huge draw on bandwidth.

1/2 of my 404 traffic is Fusker.Leww

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