incoming links from myself?

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    ingridandneil · Member ·

    Thanks to whoever put the “more” link back!

    Now, I’m still confused about the “Incoming Links” section. I’ve been reading the forums trying to find the answer, but I’m still confused. We have several “Incoming Links”, but when I click on “more” and the Google page comes up, all it gives me are links back to the page in question. I don’t know how to find out who has linked to our page. And, I know I haven’t referenced one page to another within the post. Could someone please explain to me:

    1. What’s going on
    2. How I can see who’s linking to our blog and the various posts

    In the forum “What are Incoming Links” which has been resolved, TheReflectiveTeacher says, “As to getting to the sites linking you: click on the username of the poster in order to find the incoming link. It should take you directly to the linking post.” So, I looked for poster and the user name and I couldn’t find either. Perhaps I’m missing the point entirely, and “Incoming Link” actually means something completely different from what I think it means.

    Please help! All I want to know is who the heck is linking to our posts. Maybe they’re… what’s it called… “scrubbing” or something. I’d just be upset if some of our photos are being used without my consent. I can’t imagine our writing is THAT good to steal!

    Anyway, thanks in advance for your help, and sorry for the long-windedness of this post.

    Cheers!

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    drmike · Member ·

    Easyest way to tell who’s linking to you is to go to a search engine (I recommend MSN actually for this. They appear to be quicker) and putting ‘link:ingridandneil.wordpress.com’ into the search bar. That should also display any links to posts within your site as well.

    Hotlinking photos I’ve got to think about. Both MSN and Google will show you their indexed images within their databases. Just go over to that portion of the engine and put ‘site:ingridandneil.wordpress.com’ into the bar. Not sure about hotlinking though.

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    ingridandneil · Member ·

    Thanks drmike. I went onto MSN and took a look around. It seems pretty benign, and a few links go directly back to our posts, for some reason. As for the photos, all the links go back to our own posts, so I’m not really sure what that means.

    Thanks for the help. Have a great day!

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    If the links go to your posts, rather than to the image URLs, then your images aren’t getting stolen, they’re getting referred to, as in “this is such a cool pic, go see”. If the links go to the image URLs, then yes, they are being hotlinked, which means someone has posted them on their own site and is stealing your (and WordPress’s) bandwidth. This can become a problem if the pictures get hugely popular. A friend of mine once got a $1700 bill for bandwidth over a long weekend because a Korean site stole all her images and hotlinked them. WordPress won’t bill you, but if they see something going crazy like that, they might disable the pictures. It’s not likely to happen, though.

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    ingridandneil · Member ·

    Thanks raincoaster, that was very informative. Of course, I wouldn’t mind if the bill actually turned out to be a cheque, should my pictures become that popular! ;-) ha ha… not bloody likely!

    Cheers!

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    drmike · Member ·

    WordPress won’t bill you, but if they see something going crazy like that, they might disable the pictures.

    One of the features that wp.com promotes is that they can handle stuff like this. They used the term “Slashdotting isn’t even a blip to us” in the past.

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    lloydbudd · Member ·

    Matt fixed this. You should no longer see incoming links from yourself.

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