Igal_Zeifman - 8:57 am on Jun 5, 2012 (gmt 0)

[Sheesh...
Not necessarily, if you are talking 50-90% of internal links go to .jpgs]

True.

2 years ago I received a new client with PR0 penalty. After a while I found out that almost all images were "hijacked" from another site. This was done unintentionally (he was a distributor who simply wanted to use images from the main catalog) and still it took us almost 2 month to remove the penalty.

It`s always better to use your own assets.

BTW: Penguin is much harsher on hot-linking.

Nothing is "too small" that`s why it`s called "optimization".