Name: What Is Hotlinking and Should You Be Worried About It? (2025/620)
Uploaded: 2025-10-10T21:00:00+00:00
Duration: 13 min 41 s
Description: Ever found your images or PDFs showing up on someone else’s site — but still hosted on yours? That’s hotlinking, and it could be quietly draining your bandwidth, costing you money, and weakening your

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Ever found your images or PDFs showing up on someone else’s site — but still hosted on yours? That’s hotlinking, and it could be quietly draining your bandwidth, costing you money, and weakening your brand.

📌 In this episode, Charly explains:

✅ What hotlinking is and why it's considered bandwidth theft

✅ The difference between innocent hotlinking and malicious abuse

✅ Real costs and risks: server load, copyright issues, broken images, and SEO

✅ Practical ways to stop hotlinking using server rules or CDNs

✅ Why reaching out to small bloggers might work better than fighting them

🛡️ Whether you’re running a blog or a big e-commerce site, Charly recommends blocking hotlinking by default — before it becomes a problem.

🔗 Want help setting up server rules to protect your content? Reach out or ask your IT team.

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