Hotlinks on my own website, but not on others

leandroeidi

I'm currently building a site and I decided to use a photo sharing site to host some of my images. But I have a question that I couldn't find the answer for. I want to hotlink my images on my site, but I want to deny hotlinks on other sites. Is that possible?

While googling, I saw that in SmugMug you can allow or deny hotlinks to your images, but I couldn't find anyone saying that you can choose which sites can or cannot hotlink them. Is it "all or nothing"?

denisegoldberg

Yes, it's all or nothing. Either external links are allowed, or external links are not allowed.

You can set your galleries to unlisted instead of public. If someone has a direct link to the gallery they can still view it, but it won't be picked up by search engines. Don't think this is security though; it's not.

--- Denise

leandroeidi

Thanks for the answer.