Redirecting an image?

[dschus]

Turns out I am having a lot of useful traffic from an image on mine in Google Images.

The traffic is coming to http://mydomain.com/123.jpg

Is there anyway I can make that address redirect to an affiliate offer (without hurting my rankings)?

Thanks,

Damien

 

[jlknauff]

Use the .htaccess file and set up a 301

 

[dschus]

can you elaborate a bit more? Thanks

 

[jryan21]

don't redirect requests for the image, redirect based on user-agent and referrer- all humans coming from the url of the image results page.

 

[dschus]

how do I go about doing that?

 

[audax]

(without hurting my rankings)

Possibly not. Technically what you would be doing is showing visitors different content than Google sees which is a violation of their TOS.

Setup an htaccess rule to check the referrer and redirect if it's a match.

 

[hittjw]

Making a .jpg return a full web page may get you in trouble, it's better to use the highly referenced image in another more targeted landing page so it returns with Google Image results. You also want to make sure the image is actually popular and isn't just being pulled from improper use.

Best,

Justin