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Is there a pattern for these spammy sites?
The traffic it sent me was huge,
I ban most hotlinking.
In my previous version of my website I had embedded the SVG in the page and this eliminated hot linking completely but it also prevented Google image search from showing the images.
This results in a very low CTR from image search, which can be interpreted as showing a lot of images through Google Image Search with very little benefit.
In my previous version of my website I had embedded the SVG in the page and this eliminated hot linking completely but it also prevented Google image search from showing the images. When I created this latest version of my site I intentionally showed my graphs as images in an attempt to capture more clicks from image search
What hotlinking do you allow?
But hot linking protection are not preventing Google image to index others sites, with your images.
Sorry I don't follow. If you prevent the images from being shown by blocking the hot-linking then there will be nothing for those sites to show. Without content those sites will no longer appear in search for the keywords in question (one would hope!).
all the image searches will still display the infringed images no matter what you do.
@keyplyr
all the image searches will still display the infringed images no matter what you do.
I'm not sure why you make this assertion. Are you saying that the offending sites have copied to the images?
If you prevent the images from being shown by blocking the hot-linking then there will be nothing for those sites to show.A search engine doesn't know this. All it sees is (a) an <img src> tag in the offending site's html, and (b) an image file found in the specified location. Google (specifically) routinely sends a referer with requests for scripts and stylesheets--but not for images. So any hotlinking protection on your own site is meaningless when it comes to search-engine requests.
removed at the request of the copyright holder@NickMNS, yes that's exactly what those sites are (were) doing. Only allowing Googlebot-Image. In effect hijacking image traffic, using our images as click-bait for ad revenue.