Hi does any body use this feature on Google Webmaster Tools

enhanced image search - looks to be away for Google to index images on your
site.

worth doing or not?

cheers

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I've enabled that for a few sites, just to see what happened.

What happened was, I get a boatload of worthless traffic that consists of
people looking to steal my images. Mostly they hotlink to the image on my
server, so it's easy to find them.

Just for heck of it, I've edited the stolen images to display the URL of the
site it was stolen from. So far, none of the image thieves seems to have
noticed. At some point I might disable hotlinking, but sometimes I want to
hotlink to my own images, so I'm resisting that solution for now.

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On 3/7/08 8:56 AM, "B" wrote:

> Hi does any body use this feature on Google Webmaster Tools
>
> enhanced image search - looks to be away for Google to index images on your
> site.
>
> worth doing or not?
>
> cheers

thanks for the info

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"Sonjay" <my-name@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> I've enabled that for a few sites, just to see what happened.
>
> What happened was, I get a boatload of worthless traffic that consists of
> people looking to steal my images. Mostly they hotlink to the image on my
> server, so it's easy to find them.
>
> Just for heck of it, I've edited the stolen images to display the URL of
> the
> site it was stolen from. So far, none of the image thieves seems to have
> noticed. At some point I might disable hotlinking, but sometimes I want to
> hotlink to my own images, so I'm resisting that solution for now.
>
> --
> Sonjay
>
>
> On 3/7/08 8:56 AM, "B" wrote:
>
>> Hi does any body use this feature on Google Webmaster Tools
>>
>> enhanced image search - looks to be away for Google to index images on
>> your
>> site.
>>
>> worth doing or not?
>>
>> cheers
>
>

B wrote:
> Hi does any body use this feature on Google Webmaster Tools
>
> enhanced image search - looks to be away for Google to index images on your
> site.
>
> worth doing or not?
>
> cheers
>

My personal site has in the last couple of weeks suddenly got bombarded
by google images, but each one seems to be a different countries
version, but they only look for 2 images, one is off a tattoo I had
done, and the other was a photo of optimus prime, I was given him for
Christmas. I get hourly hits on the 2 pages on my site, its very
strange, and I haven't told google to search my site for images.

Steve

interesting - I need to look at my stats in more detail - I've seen google
image search (I think), in my analytics reports, but have not taken much
notice.

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"Dooza" <doozadooza@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>B wrote:
>> Hi does any body use this feature on Google Webmaster Tools
>>
>> enhanced image search - looks to be away for Google to index images on
>> your site.
>>
>> worth doing or not?
>>
>> cheers
>>
>
> My personal site has in the last couple of weeks suddenly got bombarded by
> google images, but each one seems to be a different countries version, but
> they only look for 2 images, one is off a tattoo I had done, and the other
> was a photo of optimus prime, I was given him for Christmas. I get hourly
> hits on the 2 pages on my site, its very strange, and I haven't told
> google to search my site for images.
>
> Steve

B wrote:
> interesting - I need to look at my stats in more detail - I've seen google
> image search (I think), in my analytics reports, but have not taken much
> notice.
>

My site normally gets random hits from google searches, but now its
getting loads of referrals from google, I just don't understand it. I
think I will setup Google Webmaster Tools and tell it not to index my site.

Steve

If you do decide to block hotlinking, I wrote a short article that might
be of interest.

http://divahtml.com/articles-tutoria...inking_ie6.php


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If google uses a diffterent spider for its image searches (it does for
adsense), you may be able to just disallow that spider using the robots.txt

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"Dooza" <doozadooza@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>B wrote:
>> interesting - I need to look at my stats in more detail - I've seen
>> google image search (I think), in my analytics reports, but have not
>> taken much notice.
>>
>
> My site normally gets random hits from google searches, but now its
> getting loads of referrals from google, I just don't understand it. I
> think I will setup Google Webmaster Tools and tell it not to index my
> site.
>
> Steve

B wrote:
> If google uses a diffterent spider for its image searches (it does for
> adsense), you may be able to just disallow that spider using the robots.txt
>

Now thats a good idea, I didn't think off that, time to dig thru my logs :)

Steve

If you find that they do use a different spider - post back.

Good luc digging

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"Dooza" <doozadooza@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>B wrote:
>> If google uses a diffterent spider for its image searches (it does for
>> adsense), you may be able to just disallow that spider using the
>> robots.txt
>>
>
> Now thats a good idea, I didn't think off that, time to dig thru my logs
> :)
>
> Steve