jd01 - 10:09 pm on Nov 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

Just a thought...

Have you thought to move your images to another 'clean' directory, which has not been hot linked since you have the hot link blocks in place?

Doing so should get your images re-spidered, and since you now have hot link protection in place, this should act as a deterrent to future hot links.

Personally, I would think about moving all images to a new directory (EG from /images/ to /new-img/), then do not redirect the old location of the images, let them go 404, and change the URLs on your site.

It might take some work, but a bulk 'find / replace' should be able to take care of the URLs on your site and you may get them back in the Image Search if they are only associated with your site.

Justin