Hotlinking - What to do about it?

[ProfKahn]

Long story short, someone has hot-linked to an image on our website for use on their website. An image that took a lot of research to create. I could replace the image with something like two goats ****ing to screw with them, but I was wondering if there is a better solution? One that might result in some positive link juice and/or drive traffic back to our website.

Thoughts?

 

[Wilson Grant Fisk]

Long story short, someone has hot-linked to an image on our website for use on their website. An image that took a lot of research to create. I could replace the image with something like two goats ****ing to screw with them, but I was wondering if there is a better solution? One that might result in some positive link juice and/or drive traffic back to our website.

Thoughts?

Instead of the goats just change it to a text image saying "to see the original image visit xxxx.com"
Plenty of anti hotlink scripts and plugins out there.

 

[Deleted member 720373]

I'm sure I've seen scripts that overlay the image with a no hotlinking text and the original website it came from.

Don't know if it's a plugin or custom script though.

 

[ProfKahn]

Yea, I saw some scripts for WordPress. Unfortunately, we use Drupal and nothing is ever very simple

 

[BassTrackerBoats]

Yea, I saw some scripts for WordPress. Unfortunately, we use Drupal and nothing is ever very simple

Why don't you migrate away from Drupal then?

 

[ebiz101]

If you use cpanel they have hotlink protection, never use them but from the name it should something you need

 

[The Blackhat Guy]

Pretty weird

 

[ProfKahn]

Why don't you migrate away from Drupal then?

The honest truth on that question is that I can't because I'm not tech savvy in that way and, on this particular site, our IT guy... controls it. Even if I could, I can't imagine what it would take to convert a couple thousand pages of content over to WordPress from Drupal. Probably more work than we could hope to do. We're kinda in a position where it works reasonably well and we don't want to screw it up. But we are handicapped.

 

[Wilson Grant Fisk]

Yea, I saw some scripts for WordPress. Unfortunately, we use Drupal and nothing is ever very simple

https://www.google.com/search?name=f&hl=en&q=Drupal#hl=en&q=drupal+hotlink+protection&*