Incoming Links to Pictures?

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  goldndebris · Member · May 30, 2007 at 4:52 pm

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  When i upload a picture to my WP account, is in then possible to see whether others are directly linking to this picture on another website?

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  raincoaster · Member · May 30, 2007 at 5:32 pm

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  Not for us, but it’s possible the staff could tell. If you suspect someone is hotlinking, you can always re-upload the picture using a different name, take the old one down, and replace it with the new one. I did that for one post that was sucking all my bandwidth from Photobucket.

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  drmike · Member · May 30, 2007 at 5:48 pm

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  Do note that we don’t have bandwidht limits here at wp.com.

  One thing you can do is give the image a unique name and then use the search engines to search for it.

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  goldndebris · Member · May 30, 2007 at 6:33 pm

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  yeah, I was just thinking, I made a picture which is very likely to show up on different spots on the forum, and I was hoping that I could trace how popular it is…

  @drmike, what should I think about when it comes to bandwith limits? I can’t imagine I would be stressing this nice feature of WP with one picture right?

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  drmike · Member · May 30, 2007 at 6:36 pm

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  The servers can take it. I wouldn’t worry about it. :)