link from spam site with adult content - what to do?

should I redirect; turn off adsense? site has no contact info

[FrostyMug]

Does anyone have any suggestions? somehow a link from image/video linking site for all kinds of images, including pron got linked to a page with an image on my site (this image is 100% OK under adsense guidelines).

traffic is about 5 hits an hour, pretty harmless, but I do not want my site to be associated with this kind of a site link. I do not want to shut down a page either... maybe i should do a redirect back to the site if I see referrer is matched up?

[edited by: FrostyMug at 7:05 am (utc) on Jan. 18, 2007]

[joelgreen]

You could try asking webmaster of that site to remove link. But I think you should not have problems with few pron inbound links. Google warns us about outbound links only.

maybe i should do a redirect back to the site if I see referrer is matched up

I would not do that. If Google's crawler somehow got redirected from your page to that site it could be counted as link from your site to that bad site, thus causing problems. IMO.

[iwannano1]

You can turn on Apache image hot linking. It is quite easy with CP. Try a google search "Apache prevent hot linking howto" for more info :)

[frox]

Just rename the page and update your links: their link will be broken.

Other links to the page will be broken too, so if the page is REALLY important you could think about doing a conditional redirect:
referrer from bad site?
output 404 (page not found)
else
output 301 (move)

BTW: are they linking to the page or are they hotlinking an image?

[FrostyMug]

thanks for replies.... I removed adsense ads and I'm not going to do a redirect (thanks joelgreen). I hope removing the ads will save the situation. It's an extremely under performing page anyway, I've long debated getting adsense off this group altogether because the ads have never been able to match the content. About 30 pages earn at most $1 a day.

frox, they actually have a thumbnail of the image hosted on their servers and a link to my site under that image (by image description, not site name). there's nothing on that site that even remotely mentions owners or contact links, just a grid of images on the homepage with descriptions under them.