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    • AlexLenhoff
      AlexLenhoff last edited by

      I found a few websites that are displaying images from my site.  Curiously, they have also linked these images to the source image file on my website.  I found these because Moz showed these sites in my list of backlinks.  I assume that means it impacts my Domain Authority.  But does this actually help me in search engines since it's not linking to a page on my site?

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      • TimHolmes
        TimHolmes last edited by

        I think the following posts will cover this topic on images for seo and hot linking. I would imagine the problem you face is that it will be eating into your own servers bandwidth by serving these images for someone else.

        https://moz.com/community/q/can-hotlinking-images-from-multiple-sites-be-bad-for-seo
        https://moz.com/community/q/seo-issues-from-image-hotlinking
        https://moz.com/community/q/images-and-seo

        Cheers

        Tim

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        • AlexLenhoff
          AlexLenhoff @TimHolmes last edited by

          They are hot linking, but I was more asking about the accompanying link to the image on my site.  If it's not clear, it looks like this:

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