Google Images

[Jim]

They probably get a little pissed off if you screw with that traffic, right?

[Maj. Stress]

Originally Posted by Jim

They probably get a little pissed off if you screw with that traffic, right?

I read an article earlier this year (can't find it now) on C-net written by John Dvorak that said Google had been sued for hotlinking websites images (google images). Since then I have noticed that images traffic goes to my root index and I do make a few sales a month from that.

If you don't want to try and make some profit from the traffic, I'm pretty sure there is a way to stop the images bot from spidering your site using robots.txt.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Jim

They probably get a little pissed off if you screw with that traffic, right?

Some people redirect it and claim no problems.

I think it would depend on how important the domain was - if you do end up attracting google's human review attention, well, the question is, are the signups you get from redirection worth having your name on one of google's shit lists.

Last I checked, they don't specifically prohibit redirection of image traffic. But I haven't checked on it recently.

Some people use framebreakers - I've tried that, I can't say it made a huge difference.