SBI! TORTOISE TIP #10: Image Theft - How To Protect Your Photos

http://www.sitesell.com/ssfb/mass-image-theft.html

Image theft is a huge problem online. Here's how to find it and stop it.

Are you a victim of image theft? Are other websites using YOUR images or photos and passing them off as their own? This video shows you how to identify image thieves.

Images are content too. You can find out if anyone is copying your website's photos by using Google Image Search. I recommend that you test images from your home page and your other most visited and best monetization pages. Those are the ones most likely to be "image-jacked."

Ready to start?

Step 1... Download one of your website's photos to your desktop.

Step 2... Rename the image. For example, "5.jpg." Changing the file name forces Google to recognize it visually.

Step 3... Go to Google Image Search at http://images.google.com/

Step 4... Click on the camera icon, upload the image and do the search.

Did Google find the image on your site? More importantly, did the search find it on anyone else's site?

If you find an image that is being copied, check the rest of that site to see if other photos are being stolen by that site. Or repeat the search with another image and see if the same site(s) show up.

If you do find some sort of repeated copying of your photo(s), report it to Google DMCA at http://www.google.com/dmca.html.

Click on the Image Search radio button and continue from there.

You work hard to provide quality original content for your visitors and for the search engines. Don't let image thieves take advantage of your time and efforts.

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Science & Technology

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• image theft
• image protection
• picture theft
• how to protect photos
• google
• image
• search

[SiteSell]

@micasaverde I hope that we can do so, too. Picnik was great. There is a Facebook page created to try and save it. You may consider looking it up. If you type "photoshop watermark" into YouTube, there are some really easy tutorials on it.

[micasaverde]

@SiteSell Well, we used to be able to watermark with Picnik but now they're closing shop and Photoshop is much more complicated to use. You have promised to replace Picnik; I hope it will be soon.

[SiteSell]

@micasaverde I personally recommend watermarking anything of yours that you display on the Internet. This can easily be achieved with photo editing software. YouTube has some great tutorial videos on it. You can also create a lower quality image and make viewers aware of it. - Tony

[micasaverde]

Good video, but didn't show what it said it would., i.e., "How to PROTECT Your Photos".