ken_b
msg:4518034 | 2:52 pm on Nov 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I block my image folders in robots.txt.
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nomis5
msg:4518305 | 12:17 pm on Nov 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
When I click on one of my images the full sized version is displayed but below it is my website page.
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lucy24
msg:4518315 | 12:56 pm on Nov 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I put in a nifty rewrite in htaccess. Goes like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www\.example\.com/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^-?$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !{a couple more hand-picked exceptions}/
RewriteRule (paintings/\w+/)blowups/large(\w+\.jpg) /$1thumbs/small$2 [L]
It's clean and simple because every full-size picture in the gallery section comes with a thumbnail whose name is exactly parallel. These are not my only images, but they're the biggest ones in filesize. Thumbs are exactly the same but only 5-10% the size, hardly bigger than the No Hotlinks image. So the picture is visible in search results-- but if they want to see the real thing they can jolly well come to the page.
So far Bing Image Search hasn't been nearly as plaguesome as That Other Search Engine. They don't behave any better or worse in themselves-- but they're not nearly as popular with people looking for hotlink fodder.
I do notice a big increase recently in Bing Preview. Or is this something they only just started doing, so I didn't notice it because it didn't exist? Will have to start paying attention.
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chrisv1963
msg:4518352 | 3:46 pm on Nov 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| When I click on one of my images the full sized version is displayed but below it is my website page. |
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And people don't need to visit your website because they can see the full size version on Bing. What you see below the image is a framed version of your website.
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StoutFiles
msg:4518355 | 4:11 pm on Nov 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| You could try to work around this with a frame breaker but this will only work until Bing crawls your website again. |
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Could you check the user agent and not show the frame breaker script to Bing when they crawl? This would leave them oblivious.
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HuskyPup
msg:4518761 | 4:38 pm on Nov 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| When I click on one of my images the full sized version is displayed but below it is my website page. |
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Me too and it displays my watermark perfectly and the source code, for me, shows it coming from Bing plus I have some pre-watermarked images still in Bing that when clicked go to the new watermarked images on my sites.
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matrix_jan
msg:4518775 | 5:29 pm on Nov 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
@chrisv1963
Mine breaks out of it just fine, the image isn't even starting to load when it redirects.
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matrix_jan
msg:4518784 | 5:48 pm on Nov 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
It's been a while since I checked yahoo and bing last time, my main traffic comes from g. It seems like yahoo doesn't even bother to show the original page in an iframe. So i guess there is nothing to breaking out from... They even created a nice gallery style browsing with right and left arrows, just pick whichever picture you like... People spent time and resources to create those pics and pay for the hosting so that yahoo can just give it to the users for free.
It's like having the whole page without ads shown in the search results, why would anyone bother to visit your website if it's already there?
I guess I have to put a huge watermark for requests from yahoo saying click here to go to the website!
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matrix_jan
msg:4518785 | 5:51 pm on Nov 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Just a small update, putting click here won't work because clicking on the image does noting, you have to click on the small link on the bottom to go to the website...
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chrisv1963
msg:4518816 | 7:32 pm on Nov 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
@chrisv1963
Mine breaks out of it just fine, the image isn't even starting to load when it redirects.
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It did work for me, but stopped working after about a week ...
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