How can I do this?

sufi · 05-20-2007, 11:33 PM

Hi everyone,

One of my site is getting lots of traffic from Google Images but most of people just hit the "See full-size image" which eats up my bandwidth without any site exposure.

Is there anyway to take them to picture page instead of just the picture link by some type of redirect?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Eric · 05-21-2007, 03:13 AM

.htaccess

Code:

# would redirect  'someimage.jpg', to 'someimage.html'
# just play around with it, or maybe someone will
# come up with a better way :)
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^google\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ /$1.html [L]

mr-x · 05-21-2007, 08:30 AM

If your *NOT* running ads in an iframe (adsense), you can use javascript to break out of the google frame and leave your visitor at the thumbnail page.

Code:

if (window != top) top.location.href = location.href;

If you want to use .htaccess to redirect the viewer, you can filter the image through a script that adds your domain name as as watermark or redirects the viewer to another page.

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?example.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png)$ http://www.example.com/thumbs.php?img=%{SCRIPT_FILENAME}% [R,L]

You may find a better example at http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/

sufi · 05-21-2007, 09:46 AM

Thanks both of you for help. I guess I'll just use the frame breaking thingy because I still can't figure out anything about that .htaccess thing.

monaco · 05-22-2007, 05:10 PM

If you have a cPanel hosting account you can go into the "hotlink prevention" tool which will generate the .htaccess file for you that will redirect them to wherever you want.

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