Will Google stop indexing my images if I block hotlinking?
 

I am getting far too many spammers using my blog images and I am going to block hotlinking, I got an idea about how to edit the .htaccess file to stop hotlinking but I am worried that may also stop Google from indexing the images.

Anyone knows if that is the case?

you can allow google, bing and yahoo and block the rest.

i agree with that

How do you do that? Can I have your .htaccess code?

google the problem

I wasn't talking to you.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*)?google.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*)?yahoo.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*)?bing.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(bmp|gif|jpg|jpe|jepg|png|jpeg)$ - [NC,F,L]

Yes, you can allow them and block the rest ... I did this at my virtual hosting with one-click and have no problems with Google ...

i ate some pie