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

swedguy · 2005-04-24, 07:32 PM

No, with blocking I just meant a general hotlinking block (the same that everybody else is using).
Most of the people redirect to a HTML page, which will result in a broken image if it's hotlinked from another HTML page.
But if it's coming from Google it usually redirects to the HTML page (depending on if the image is on a HTML page or not). Example: http://images.google.com/images?q=po...ff&sa=N&tab=wi pic #2, #4, #5

Some redirect to another image with an URL on it (that's what I did).

The more I think about, the more I think both ways are bad. Both serve different content than what the spider found.
They might not mind or taken care of it right now. But further down the road I think we might face the same consequences as if we redirected a HTML page (banned).

Probably the only one that might be ok, is if the hotlink protection sends a "Forbidden". They know as well as we do that hotlinking is a problem.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/gui...s.html#quality
"Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects."

2005-04-24, 07:32 PM	#13
swedguy Vagabond Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,374	No, with blocking I just meant a general hotlinking block (the same that everybody else is using). Most of the people redirect to a HTML page, which will result in a broken image if it's hotlinked from another HTML page. But if it's coming from Google it usually redirects to the HTML page (depending on if the image is on a HTML page or not). Example: http://images.google.com/images?q=po...ff&sa=N&tab=wi pic #2, #4, #5 Some redirect to another image with an URL on it (that's what I did). The more I think about, the more I think both ways are bad. Both serve different content than what the spider found. They might not mind or taken care of it right now. But further down the road I think we might face the same consequences as if we redirected a HTML page (banned). Probably the only one that might be ok, is if the hotlink protection sends a "Forbidden". They know as well as we do that hotlinking is a problem. http://www.google.com/webmasters/gui...s.html#quality "Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects."