The way I found out about it was that I noticed that a blog post I wrote awhile back was getting a TON of views, and I wanted to see where the traffic was coming from.

(See the # 1 spot for Most Viewed on the right side of this page below most commented posts)

I logged into my server and noticed a blog that was sending over a ton of traffic… or so I thought. I went to his blog to see where he mentioned this blog or my post.

I found nothing… I knew something strange was going on.

So I started to look through his posts and saw an image that I knew was taken from my site.

I put my mouse over the image, looked down at the far bottom right of the screen and saw that the image was still being hosted on my server. All he did was copy the location of the image and posted it on his blog.

So that’s how I found out.

Now if he copied the image and then uploaded it to his server, I would have never known. But hopefully he would know better than to do that… well, then again, this “Internet Marketing Consultant” should know better than to be doing what he is doing on EVERY blog posts he writes where EVERY image he has on his blog is being hosted by other blogs. Not good!

Question though - how do you know someone’s stolen an image from your site?