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B.Barnato · 12-08-2011, 05:04 PM

Has anyone experimented or come to a definite conclusion with their own projects concerning allowing/disallowing hotlinking? What kind of impact does it have?

Besides the obvious advantage of gaining popularity though watermarked images of course.

If for any reason you do not want to or are not allowed to watermark the images you serve I can suggest the wordpress plugin "Watermark Hotlinked Images". This lets you impose your url or a message on to the images being displayed by the hotlinking websites.

(It costs 9 USD, I have no affiliation with this plugin)

12-08-2011, 05:04 PM
B.Barnato So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 3,618	Allowing Hotlinking of Pictures - SEO Advantage? Has anyone experimented or come to a definite conclusion with their own projects concerning allowing/disallowing hotlinking? What kind of impact does it have? Besides the obvious advantage of gaining popularity though watermarked images of course. If for any reason you do not want to or are not allowed to watermark the images you serve I can suggest the wordpress plugin "Watermark Hotlinked Images". This lets you impose your url or a message on to the images being displayed by the hotlinking websites. (It costs 9 USD, I have no affiliation with this plugin)