To block or not to block, that's the question.

swedguy · 2005-04-17, 11:12 AM

Google and Yahoo image searches, that is

I started to think about it yesterday since I got 1500+ from Yahoo for just 1 keyword. Right now I block it and show a picture with the scorpiolinks.com URL in it. I got about 200 extra hits to Scorpio Links, so it shows that some people type in the URL at least.

But if the traffic is of good quality, then it's probably a waste to have the hotlink protection on for Yahoo and Google.
What I find is that it's not very well targetted. So that's one reason why I would still keep the hotlink protection on and send the traffic to a generic site. BUT, Google/Yahoo is probably not very fond of it, since the surfer doesn't get the same image as the spider found. So they might penalize you.

What do you think?

2005-04-17, 11:12 AM	#1
swedguy Vagabond Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,374	To block or not to block, that's the question. Google and Yahoo image searches, that is I started to think about it yesterday since I got 1500+ from Yahoo for just 1 keyword. Right now I block it and show a picture with the scorpiolinks.com URL in it. I got about 200 extra hits to Scorpio Links, so it shows that some people type in the URL at least. But if the traffic is of good quality, then it's probably a waste to have the hotlink protection on for Yahoo and Google. What I find is that it's not very well targetted. So that's one reason why I would still keep the hotlink protection on and send the traffic to a generic site. BUT, Google/Yahoo is probably not very fond of it, since the surfer doesn't get the same image as the spider found. So they might penalize you. What do you think?