Google is hotlinking my pics
 

How do I stop this from happening?

It's taking a good chuck of my Bandwidth. :helpme

.htaccess it to:
http://www.om1.us/images/bubba.jpg

they were doing that 2 me also a few months ago.
I fixed there ass, a lot work but I did it

.htaccess is your best answer just don't let them in...

What do I put in the .htaccess file?

keep the traffic
there is a way without .htaccess keep the traffic.

I posted once what i did, not going 2 post it again

Google's allowed to hotlink.

Don't - cha ya know?

154206276 hit me up please! :D

Profit from it...

First off place a smaller version of the picture so it doesn't soak much bandwidth..

Then on the page that is being hotlinked.. place a simple frame buster script..


If google is using enough of your bandwidth for it to be a problem then you should be looking at some nice profit from it..

.htaccess against hotlink.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

You could check the referrer and redirect to the front of the site if it is from google.

Or just .htaccess them out.

See Above... It's best not block GOOD traffic from your site, just learn to capitalize on it... :cool-smil

You can specify it in your robots.txt file also.

robots.txt - you can instruct them on what you permit them to do (including their image bot).

meta tags to manage cach/no-cache

.htaccess is good to manage hotlinking

you can also request them to purge their cache.

You should balance all the above are steps with any potential positive impact.

I know I get lots of valid surfers from Yahoo's thumbnail searches - they actually copy my content and create their own thumbnails. They do come to my site and sign up.

With G's recent fiasco 'algo change', I'm inclined to 'moon them' with any images they try to hotlink using .htaccess

-Dino

Here is what I do using .htacces and Javascript.

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