stankbrooks: hey Planer, i have a random link development/seo question for you
me: sure
whatsup?
stankbrooks: i think i found my answer, should have googled! haha
4:45 PM if a bunch of people hotlinking an image, does that give you seo juice
me: if they link from an image or to an image?
stankbrooks: as in, say i
and a bunch of people post the image everywhere
but don’t link to me
they just post the image, the SE spiders cross that image and do they make note of the image url and give me some juice?
4:46 PM me: it depends
stankbrooks: i googled, it and found this
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/070711-172426
me: did they just steal your image?
4:47 PM if they use the hotlink yes
if they copy/save your image
your out of luck
stankbrooks: ok, just curious, i think they stole the image
just wondering
nice
cool cool
could be a great viral idea
4:48 PM me: yeah, but usually people just steal images
i always do
i never hotlink back
and most people don’t
a hotlinked image can be taken down
and you’ve lost your pic
4:49 PM stankbrooks: true
4:52 PM thanks man
take it easy
4:53 PM me: you too
any plans for the weekend?
stankbrooks: jeremy and i are going out with the usual ladies tonight, have to prepare a talk i’m giving at ucla, then possibly get stupid tomorrow night with jeremy and others again (sans the usual ladies, aka my girlfriend and her friends)
4:54 PM me: what is your talk going to be on?
4:55 PM stankbrooks: how we started out company, our struggles, what we learned, some of our work, how not to get sued, etc.
me: cool
