NegevLandRover Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 I manage to post images hosted on my photobucket site with no problems at all so why can't I post images hosted on my own web site. Just so as to clarify: I wan't the images to pop up on the forum not for users to have to click on a link that takes them to my site. Before anyone asks why I care where the images are hosted I do care because I want to try and float my web site higher in the search listings and if it recieves more 'hits' then it will rise in the rankings. TIA Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Adam, Some (cheap/free) hosting providers do not allow images to be "remote linked", this may be the reason. Other things that upset the process are spaces in file names and images not ending with .jpg or .gif. Having more hits through image links will not increase your search listings, google does not know how much traffic your website gets. It ranks sites on the number of links to them from elsewhere on the web. It also tends not to index "active" pages like forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NegevLandRover Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 Thanks for that FridgeFreezer. The hosting ain't cheap at 290 USD per year ?!! I'll re-check the the address for the link and try again and start to look for some link exchanges. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LR90 Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Adam, just make the url in your sig clicky. Though being able to use your existng webspace to host linked images is useful and worth trying to get resolved (esp ifyou're paying good money for it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NegevLandRover Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 Trev, thanx for that - now clicky. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Motorhead Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 look for a file called htaccess on your webspace..this file is often used to stop hotlinking except to sites you specify you can edit this file with notepad or similar... try doing a google search for the code to use to allow hotlinking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthdicky Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Adam, it looks like most of the images on your website are .bmp, so they take ages to load for people looking at your site, and this board doesn't support them so won't let you show them. Save and upload them to the space again as .jpg and they'll load faster and you should be able to link to them. Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NegevLandRover Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 Now sorted - this picture is hosted on my web site rather than photobucket or similar and linked to here automaticaly !! Guys you are GREAT !! Richard that last bit of advice has now completed the picture (excuse the pun !) Now all I have to do is go through all my albums and change the pics from BMP to JPG This alone will take a month of Sundays as for some reason ALL my images are saved as BMP. Before I do that is there any reason at all why I may want to keep BMP images rather than JPG ones ?!! TIA Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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