Just looked thorugh my log files. To many pictures are copied to other web sites. Mainly forums. When it's a commercial page, I perform counter actions by the .htaccess referrer redirect.
But they are mostly forum pages. People illustrating more or less strange discussions with my photos.
Now I have an idea.
if the referer is not example.com, I could return a picture with a description
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You are copying a picture from example.com to Your web site. This is something like a copyright violation.
But as long as You are a not commercial homepage, we allow You to use the picture by the following method:
<iframe src=http://cgi.example.com/cgi-bin/picture?theme.example.com/picture-url>
</iframe>
If You are a commercial site, please contact
us for proper licensing of our pictures.
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I thought my cgi should return
<html>
<body>
<a href=http://example.com/page-where-the-picture-is.htm><img src=http://http://example.com/page-where-the-picture-is.jpg>
</body>
</html>
Any input on my idea?
Hat somebody experiences with similar tactics?
Does Google count IMG links for link popularity?
Does Google count IFRAME links for link popularity?
