How to use hotlinkers and Google Images to build natural links to your site

Wow. Neat idea. Thanks.

Great tips

The script doesn’t work in your example… you can simply right click on the image and save it. Tested in Firefox 2.0

Hi Brandon.

The script should work on most browsers, including Firefox, unless you have Javascript support turned off.

It’s not really intended to stop people taking your images, the intention is to try and get a few links from the people who do.

Even if it only works for 50% of the users it gets you 50% more links than without using it.:)

ok there are 3 parts to add this to my blogger?
(just one page?)

#1) Where do I add the “preg_match”

#2) add a safeguard to handle posts with no images.( where do I get this safe guard?)

#3) the script goes in the body?

Thanks
Gerald

Gerald I don’t think you will be able to run the php parts of this script using Blogger.

However I will produce and test a version that is compatible with Blogger and other sites that can’t use php and post it to the blog later today.

Thanks so much.

g

Sound like a great idea, Thanks

Waiting for the WP Plug! ;o)

Trying to add it to the footer of www.forumjunkies.net and get the following errors -

The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/forumjun/public_html/includes/adminfunctions_template.php(3596) : eval()\’d code on line 44

This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish.

Interesting and great idea… I will try it.

great plugin , 10x

neat idea. thumbs up.

I am not quite sure I understand how to use the script. Does just including it one each page make it work? By looking at the code, it looks to me as if you need a little more code to wrap each image on the page into the imagelayer stuff. Like a regex to grab all the images, and then embed them in the layers in a foreach.

Is that correct?

Another question. How is this script licensed? May I make a plugin for a CMS using it?

You would need to use a regex to grab the images and put them in the code. I have released a Wordpress plugin and there is another developer working on a Joomla plugin.
We are happy for you to create a plugin as long as you tell people where you got the idea and link back to this site.

I was actually thinking about Joomla. How far is he?

martin, i was planning on the Joomla version however have not yet got round to it to be honest got a bit tied down with other work and the issue with Joomla GPL licensing that has got us developers in a stir.
If you are willing to do it then by all means go ahead. If not I will try to make some time for it.

This does not work in Opera (I didnt expect it to work, Opera blocks all the right-click Scripts). If it really doesnt work in FF, then there is almost no sense in using it at all. I would use a layer above the image (the blank-trick).

It works in FF and IE 90% of the time.

Thanks for information … does anyone has an example url to check the backlinks given from this script?

I am a commercial Joomla developer myself, and the licensing issue is truly annoying!

I need it for a private site so the licence issue does not matter here, though.

Are there any way for this to work on Blogger account ?

This doesn’t really work. Repressing the ability to right click doesn’t really stop anyone. You can still get to the images by File > Save as..-ing.

The only real way to stop people from hotlinking is rather supressing it entirely or exchange it with a replaced image.

Hello Patrick,
Thank you for the idea. I’ve just implemented your script on our website, but it works not exatly the way it is supposed to work.

When I right-click somewhere on the page (for example, I want to copy some text) the box with the code appears, but user expects to see context-menu and click “Copy”.

Could you please tell if it is possible to make the code appear only when user right-clicks on the image, but not anywhere on the page?

My Joomla website is very image heavy, I would kill for a Joomla mambot that would automate this script. Can you add me to some type of mailing list in case you ever release a Joomla version please?

Hmm I can’t get this working. Do I add the php to my main template then the script to a content item?

I’m testing the script, however getting an error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected \’{\’ in …
line is
if (isset($_COOKIE[\”imagesearcher\”]) {

Not sure what the error is, { it is opening, but do not know where it close ??? Any idea

A great idea, but I should prefer to wait for the Wordpress Plugin.

greatings from germany
klaus

It would be good if you could make it so that the code box is displayed without having to right click. So it is permanently there. Is there a way to do that?

As right clicking on any where on the page will bring up the code box.

Do you have a page/forum/area with a more detailed description on how to install/add this for noobs? I really like the idea and it looks like it works awesome here in the sample but I am completely lost on how to add it to a non blog site. I would like to add it to a site like this myspace comment site http://givemelip.com but the code given above as the script confuses me a bit (total noob unfortunately lol). It looks like the code includes the code for the dog image above so does that mean we have to add this code to every page that has images and change the bottom part where the dog code is for each and every image? Are there other steps than just adding the code to the page? Maybe a step-by-step for a total dumbass noob somewhere lol?

Regardless, it’s an awesome script and I hope I can figure out how to use it. Thanks for providing it!

You do realise that anyone who knows html will be able to just delete the link to your site. Good idea though.

Again this may not work for some users, they may just copy the image source “http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/images/firefox-puppy.jpg”
not the whole code

In iceweasel 2.0.0.6, this script works without disabling right click. I think this is the best result for both site owner and visitors.

wow… this is a great idea =)

Nice idea, if they hotlink (and use your bandwith), you obtain an IBL in return. Seem fair.

I’ve been chuckling for the last 5 minutes. What a great way to turn an irritation into a bonus! Talk about out-of-the-box thinking. Last month we had 3791 inbound links from Google Images, this month (on the 3rd) we’ve already had 652. This was beginning to become a problem. I’ve been manually re-branding my images with an ugly warning whenever I found someone hotlinking. I like this idea much better.
PS- You can thank Text Link Ads for sending me to this article.

I can see a benefit from tying to gain backlinks.

But if someone is capable of creating an image on their site hotlinked to yours, then they should be able to view the page source and find the image src for ‘firefox-puppy.jpg’.

On top of which, the print screen button works wonders for capturing stubbon images from web pages.

What a cunning way to link build!

Having just said how much I like this solution on SEJ I thought it only polite to thank you in person!
Thank you for a great - out of the box - method of gaining links.

IS it applicable now to a blog site., I have a blog and I want to put that script on it., Is it possible.,?

Hello, how is it looking with wordpress plugin? Thank you for reply.

Patric, is script supposed to prevent me from copying the above image from this post? If so it does not do it for me. I have tried from both IE and Firefox and was able to get the image in both. Am I missing anything?

That’s seriously neat.
You got yourself a new reader