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.

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.

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.