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Posted By: annie7 45 days ago
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If we look into hotlinking from an SEO perspective, are there any benefits in getting your images hotlinked by another website? Would hotlinking be worth as much as regular links?

Please share your thoughts!
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from WayneSmallman 45 days ago #
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Strange this topic should come up, since it’s one of the no-no’s I mention in an article of mine from yesterday. Personally, I wouldn't link to someone else's images.

In fact, I'm thinking of setting up my .htaccess file to block people from doing it with my images.

As a discussion, it’s novelty value will diminish the very second Google decides hot-linking is “evil”, should they go that way…

from jameskm03 44 days ago #
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Yeah this is evil because the reasons mentioned are mainly to steal bandwidth and copyright infrigement.

One way I've explored hotlinking is if you have a website that speed is of the absolute essence then offloading your images to an Amazon S3 account or something to speed up load times.  Of course the same could be done for CSS and JS files.  In a far fetched way that scenario is beneficial to SEO because search engines do look at load time as a factor in their algorithm.

But just to be honest, if your that serious about optimizing for bandwidth then you should be fully optimizing web graphics as I mentioned in this post I wrote a while back, Why and How to Optimize Graphics for the Web.


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