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09/12/2005 03:25:52 PM · #1 |
Greetings all,
I have a slight problem, one of my images on my smugmug site is being linked too (at least) from another site, without my permission, eating up a ton of bandwidth, and annoying the heck out of me. I have talked to Smug's CS folks, and they have no way to tell from where its getting linked, and suggested I just shut of the external links feature, which I hate to do. I have been getting like 500 - 1000 small size views a day of the image below, for the last week, which frankly never got that much traffic in its life. This happened at the end of last month also, but to another of my images, and before I noticed it it shifted to this one. I put a warning/note on the image asking for info about where it was being linked from and no-one replied (of course) so I'm hoping someone on here has seen it or knows how perhaps I could track where its been linked from....Thanks for any help in advance....
Mike
//www.mikefairbanks.com
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09/12/2005 03:29:45 PM · #2 |
Sorry can't help with that. But rally like the photo. Great dynamics of the water and the brook's direction.
It's not my place but maybe a but of burning of the trees to the left could emphesize the brook even more. Anyways, like the shot.
Message edited by author 2005-09-12 15:31:47. |
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09/12/2005 03:31:05 PM · #3 |
| Smugmug not being able to tell where it's being linked from seems pretty bogus to me. Can you replace photos on smugmug and have them keep the same link? If so, I'd do that and replace it with a note about being lifted from someone else. |
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09/12/2005 03:31:54 PM · #4 |
| Not sure if this would work, but I use Statcounter on my photoblog. It gives me all kinds of information on IPs and what sites people come from to view my page. Is there a way to set up something like that on the page of your photo? |
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09/12/2005 03:36:19 PM · #5 |
They could tell if they wanted - talk to somebody else there (they could also stop it or all external links).
I would just change it with another image - maybe a nice version with reference to your photos (free advertising) or a version with stop stealing type of message or other variations that might get them in trouble with their ISP (careful of your terms). |
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09/12/2005 03:51:16 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by mk:
Smugmug not being able to tell where it's being linked from seems pretty bogus to me." |
I mentioned this to Smug, heres there response "I am sorry but we don't have any way to track things like that. We don't require anyone to register in order to view the images so we don't track where hits are coming from."
Originally posted by mk:
Can you replace photos on smugmug and have them keep the same link? |
Asking that now, if so, I'm gonna have to take a nice portrait of my hairy butt!
Originally posted by mk:
If so, I'd do that and replace it with a note about being lifted from someone else. |
Tried that, attached a caption to the photo stating the copyright and asking to be notified from where it was being linked, almost a week, 5000+ views, and no response....
Thanks for the ideas and help folks, maybe someone will have seen this shot and let me know where, or know how to search for it on the web in an efficient manner...
Mike
//www.mikefairbanks.com
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09/12/2005 03:52:15 PM · #7 |
do a googlesearch like this:
link:(picture url)
it will show every website that's linked to that one URL
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09/12/2005 03:58:24 PM · #8 |
| I gave it a quick Google to see if anyone had linked to it, but I couldn't tell. However, you've disabled right clicking on it which really does annoy me (I feel this way about all right-clicking disabling). I can't be bothered to get the link so I can check for you... and I don't know what you're trying to achieve with it. It's simple enough to get around, as you've found out. |
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09/12/2005 03:58:42 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by LedZeppelin588:
do a googlesearch like this:
link:(picture url)
it will show every website that's linked to that one URL |
I tried that. Didn't bring up anything except his own site.
Originally posted by mfairbanks:
Tried that, attached a caption to the photo stating the copyright and asking to be notified from where it was being linked, almost a week, 5000+ views, and no response....
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No, no...I mean actually make a jpg from the message. Like, "this photo belongs to me and you're ripping off my bandwidth!" But a hairy ass would probably work just as well. |
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09/12/2005 04:03:12 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by LedZeppelin588:
do a googlesearch like this:
link:(picture url)
it will show every website that's linked to that one URL |
Wow, THANKS LED, ok perhaps a little more help, I'm not that familiar with googles searches as I usually use Yahoo's, I went to googles main page, in the blacnk search bar i typed in "link://mikefairbanks.smugmug.com/gallery/479564/2/19056862"
(minus the " of course) and it came back with nothing found, did I mess something up, I also tried this from the image search bar page...
Mike
//www.mikefairbanks.com
Message edited by author 2005-09-12 16:04:11.
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09/12/2005 07:32:15 PM · #11 |
Mike, I hate sites that disable the right-click as well, however I have ways around this, anyway, I found the exact link to the image in question, the direct links are:
//mikefairbanks.smugmug.com/photos/19056862-S.jpg
//mikefairbanks.smugmug.com/photos/19056862-M.jpg
//mikefairbanks.smugmug.com/photos/19056862-L.jpg
//mikefairbanks.smugmug.com/photos/19056862-O.jpg
The 4 links are for the Small, Medium, Large and Original sizes respectively.
I tried all of them in google but could not find any results either, most likely the site that is linking to your image is not searchable.
If I were you, I would just rename the image causing the external link to stop functioning. |
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09/12/2005 07:41:58 PM · #12 |
If a website logs its hits, one of the bits of information that typically gets logged is the "referrer" site. A lot of sites pull links from other sites, and browsers typically add the referrer site to the request for the link. So SmugMug should have that information. The problem is getting them to give you that same information.
Good Luck |
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09/12/2005 07:42:13 PM · #13 |
I would think they would be able to tell the url link people use to go to that page but then they have a lot of users and may just not find it time-efficient to check it out.
Can you just delete the photo and reupload it so that it has a new url link? A bit of a pain but at least it solves that one issue. |
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09/12/2005 08:29:30 PM · #14 |
I'm guessing that Smugmug makes money when you use a lot of bandwidth.
If so I wonder how long it would take Smugmug to find the link if you had replaced the picture with an image saying bad things about Smugmugs policy. |
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