preventing hot links

Hi @anivanov

Can you please provide more details what you are referring here is “see as explosion of the link mass on external links” ?

If Image prevent hotlink enabled and if referred to display by any other domain than your site domain it will show 403 forbidden and it should not be tracked in google webmaster etc as page

Regards

the screenshots show that there are less than 100 broken links. but the rest have grown by almost 7000 and yes, the hotlink tick is worth it, but why such an increase in links

Hi @anivanov

I can not see any screen shot here attached.

Also if you can provide some sample broken links using https://pastebin.com/ it would be helpful.

You may use burn after-read option of Pastebin.

Regards

https://disk.yandex.ru/i/6HCD2Vtp0sxDKw

https://disk.yandex.ru/i/TdJgPs8O93fypQ

https://disk.yandex.ru/i/zESAiAgM0SsmFQ

Hi @anivanov,

Which webmaster tool do you use?

I do not think the External links increase will be due to prevent hotlink.

Cross-check if any page/post has been added it might be as comments.

Also, you can check the actual data of external link which is considered you will have more idea.

Regards

https://webmaster.yandex.ru/

here is an exampl
https://quara.ru/new/p-01474
https://xado-express.ru/wp-content/uploads/antifriz-krasnyy-xado-red-g12.jpg

https://disk.yandex.ru/i/KaDuqqWWPxa1Hw

in the photo, the upper left is my product

Hi @anivanov

Thanks for the information. Here when Yandex has crawled the below site it should have direct access to your image URL without any HTTP_REFFERER. If it do not work that way it might be considered broken external link.

https://quara.ru/new/p-01474

So while above crawling site your URL as link but as external.

https://xado-express.ru/wp-content/uploads/antifriz-krasnyy-xado-red-g12.jpg

While accessing your site do they consider it as an internal broken link?

I will create an internal ticket and discuss with SEO person and get back to you.

Please cross-check with your hosting provider if they have image-prevent hotlink functionality. If yes enable it from there Does it affect the Yandex external link as broken? So we have more ideas regarding yandex.

Regards

Hi @anivanov,

I have discussion with SEO person and also they thinks that the hotlink to prevent on external site should not increase external broken link as the actual resource being crawled should not have the problem.

Did you hear anything from hosting provider?

Regards