Comments on: How to deter thieves from stealing your images and server bandwidth

By: ray leigh

ray leigh — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:08:52 +0000

What a fabulous bunch of people you have here David! All thanks to the way you look after and keep us informed.

As you may be aware my specialities are elsewhere so I welcome the responses.
(although nothing directly to do with the original subject).

Jonathan, many thanks. If I can help you in any way …shout!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:52:07 +0000

It’s similar to the technique used in this post. For example, to redirect from a blog subdirectory to the root, you could use something like:

RewriteRule ^blog(.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Single page moves can be done more simply without wildcards.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:44:02 +0000

Something I’m probably failing with, too, Jonathan. Htaccess is far from my speciality.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:36:48 +0000

If you do ever move your site around, remember to edit your htaccess to provide 301 permanent redirects from the old URLs to the new. That means no links to the site are broken, search engines update quickly with no loss of pagerank, and everyone find what they are looking for. It’s amazing how many professionals fail to do this, and how many sites of large corporations are broken in this way.

By: ray leigh

ray leigh — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:44:21 +0000

You’re an absolute gem David. You’re so right about “sticking to it”. Consistency pays off. Folk want to know what to expect and jumping from one thing to another leaves the punters wondering !
Take good car enow and get as much joy as you can every day.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:01:23 +0000

Hello Ray.

Your best bet is probably to create a sub-directory for your blog, so the main website is in the root directory (i.e., http://www.yourcompany.com) with the blog in a sub (i.e., http://www.yourcompany.com/blog).

That’s how I started on davidairey.com, but I eventually decided it was best to move the blog to the root, as it’s the most popular section of the site.

Whatever you decide, it’s very important that you stick to your decision for the long haul. I lost out on a lot of work when moving my web files around. I’m glad I moved, but it was hassle.

By: Ray Leigh

Ray Leigh — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:21:21 +0000

Hello David. I wondered where the heck you had gone! I haven’t seen your stuff floating around for a while.

But if I may ask, I want to seperate my blog from our company website. Totally different! But wish to link the two sites.

Any suggestions as to what/which is the best method? Would welcome any suggestion. I write a new post just about every three/four days. Mostly without pictures but would like to include them. I won’t put my address up here, I’m not making some attempt to “pinch” visitors.

By: Todd Adams

Todd Adams — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:42:08 +0000

Great article David, I just recently implemented this among some other “features” to someone who ripped my entire site. He was also hotlinking to my js files, so instead of adding them to the htaccess rules, I decided to modify them instead (added an alert window notifying of the site being stolen) Not sure when he will fix it, but it is still messed up as of today.

By: Babaji M P

Babaji M P — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:28:19 +0000

@ Lisa ..

That’s a brilliant move !

By: Jintu

Jintu — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:21:36 +0000

@Lisa, haha…why didn’t I think of that? ..very clever. Next time I’ll do the same.