Comments on: Free Backgrounds: Don’t Say I Never Gave You Anything!

By: dcr

dcr — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:56:14 +0000

Thanks!

I have one image on another website that gets around 100,000 views a month, mostly due to hotlinkers.

I swapped it out for an ad earlier this month, so it will be interesting to see how many views I end up with at the end of this month. I know some haven’t caught on yet.

Once I caught a blogger hotlinking one of my images. He neglected to include height and width tags. So, I swapped the image out with a huge ad that pretty much dominated his blog. He stopped hotlinking later that day…

By: dcr

dcr — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:53:40 +0000

That looks familiar…

By: Eric "Speedcat Hollydale"

Eric "Speedcat Hollydale" — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:30:29 +0000

HA HAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

he hee

By: Eric "Speedcat Hollydale"

Eric "Speedcat Hollydale" — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:30:06 +0000

One for DCR

By: Eric "Speedcat Hollydale"

Eric "Speedcat Hollydale" — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:29:09 +0000

I am going to hot link and pankake

By: David

David — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:31:11 +0000

“No hot-linking!”

I hate hot linkers, but now typically turn it into free advertising, by creating an image that has my URL and a brief message. However, I have some pretty funny screencaps of when I was not feeling quite as hospitable.

I know one guy that still has my advertisement up and hotlinks pretty much all of his images. I think it might be out of ignorance more than malice, but it doesn’t matter, because ignorance is no excuses. I contemplated notifying the sites he hotlinks or the siteowner himself, but never did it.

Neat Backgrounds BTW…