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tpearl5
11-04-2013, 05:15 PM
Anyone that has used Google images lately has seen a wordpress plugin that automatically greys out an image and puts a watermark over it that says 'click for full resolution'. When you click you get the full page instead of just the linked image.

A modification for vbulletin that does this would be FANTASTIC, especially for those of us who run photography sites.

More reading: http://pixabay.com/en/blog/posts/hotlinking-protection-and-watermarking-for-google-32/

tpearl5
11-07-2013, 02:15 PM
alright, nevermind: http://searchengineland.com/image-mismatch-the-latest-google-webmaster-tools-manual-action-penalty-176272