Exploring the Art & Science of Marketing
Photos: Why you shouldn’t link to photos on other websites
Here’s an example of why you shouldn’t link to photos on other websites by simply pulling a file. This Superdell photo on my site was hijacked by a site that is very pro-Democrat, so I decided to a have a little fun and made screen shots of the blog post for proof.
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I’ve seen examples of worse…
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about 3 years ago
My favorite example of hosing deep linkers by switching up the image is this one where an image on John McCain’s MySpace page was replaced.
about 3 years ago
Awesome!
about 3 years ago
That’s entirely CLASSIC!!
about 3 years ago
Pretty good gag, thanks for the lesson, keep supporting the likes of Chris Buttars, Greg Curtis, and Larry Craig. It suits you.
about 3 years ago
Funny and typical, but I’m not a supporter of any of those guys for obvious reasons… I was tempted to do much worse, but I thought this would be funny for the time being to show why it’s not cool to hijack bandwith that I pay for.