Is there somebody who is giving you a hard time? Is he kind of stalking your site from hic computer. Well we have a cure for that. Block him, that pesky man.

You can add following code into your .htaccess file where you insert his IP's

order allow,deny
deny from 123.50.6.4
deny from 012.37.6.
allow from all

You can either deny access for an IP address of IP block You can deny access based upon IP address or an IP block. The result will be blocked access from the following IPs 123.50.6.4 and from any sub domain under this IP block 012.37.6. (012.37.6.1, 012.37.6.2, 012.37.6.3, 012.37.6.4 , etc…..)

There are other solutions also. You can deny access to everybody by inserting this code

deny from all

I do not think this is a good idea, only if you have some really top secret files on the server. You can also deny by domain name instead of IP address.

Web Site Error Documents

Well today we are going to learn how to deal against hotlinkers, that are using your content (images, flash, mp3s) instead of hosting them themselves. Below is the detailed explanation what to do in this case.

Even though somebody would think that if they use your pictures they are actually linking to your site so you will get benefits? Well that is not true. Hotlinking is not beneficial for search engine optimization. It can hurt your site SEO.

Some people are stupid enough to try to sue other websites for using their pictures. I say why bother. You can fix this tiny issue much quicker. We will try to get benefits out of hotlinking instead of suing those lazy webmasters J.

I see the hotlinking as a compliment, they obviously like your pictures, flash or music files and they are stealing it. At the same time they are using your bandwidth on your server and people can not see where the original location of that image really is. They could see it if the would look into the html code of the website.

Here is the 301 redirect instruction, how to do it on your site.

First you have to create a blank file and ftp it to your server in public html folder if you are using CMS - Content Management Systems or just the root folder of your site.

The file name should be

.htaccess

so be careful to put the . in front of the filename or it would not work.

And this is to put into your htaccess file