Who has linked to my flickr image?

drunken fool · 18 Oct 2011 at 09:42

Checking out my flickr stats over the last few days and it seems that 1 parituclar picture that i uploaded a week or so ago has been getting considerably more hits than anything else every day. On the referers list it is showing this traffic as from an unknown source.

Is there any way of tracing this back to where it is being linked?

PistolPete · 18 Oct 2011 at 10:46

What info do you have? IP address??

Clown · 18 Oct 2011 at 10:59

Unknown could mean that it's just linked in an email or IRC or something.

drunken fool · 18 Oct 2011 at 11:00

PistolPete said:
What info do you have? IP address??

All i know if it shows as unknown referer. It seems to have been getting 50-60 hits a day ever since i uploaded it so just interested in where from!

King4aDay · 18 Oct 2011 at 11:18

Outside chance you might be able to find it on tineye.

PistolPete · 18 Oct 2011 at 11:29

King4aDay said:
Outside chance you might be able to find it on tineye.

Tineye looks for duplicate copies of the image.

King4aDay · 18 Oct 2011 at 11:30

Oh yeah. Sorry, bit of a blonde moment

Derek W · 18 Oct 2011 at 13:16

would google image reverse search find anything even if its just a link or is it the same as tinyeye?

Andy90 · 19 Oct 2011 at 21:22

Sometimes the pictures get blogged and you end up having quite a few hits, saying that they should be courteous and give you credit / link back to your photostream.

Sometimes you can find where your pictures end up by doing a Google search on your username, particularly if it is unusual.

Beans on toast Dave · 19 Oct 2011 at 21:24

can you change the pic? if so i would change it to the vilest pic you can find

Andy90 · 19 Oct 2011 at 21:30

That might not be a good idea, since a vile picture could contravene Flickrs terms and conditions and also might (dependant) on image possibly commit a criminal offence.

Raymond Lin · 19 Oct 2011 at 21:33

mAde it in Explore?

Beans on toast Dave · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:02

Andy90 said:
That might not be a good idea, since a vile picture could contravene Flickrs terms and conditions and also might (dependant) on image possibly commit a criminal offence.

that really depends on what you put up
vile does not have to mean porn

edit:
vile does not have to mean anything that will get your accout in trouble,
just not a nice photo, maybe vile could mean a pic or dog crap?

famas · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:03

Had a similar thing for one of my blog pictures, not updated my blog in a while and was getting 4-5 clicks a week, then all of a sudden one picture gets 50+ clicks a day for about a week then slowly dies off again.
had a search and couldn't come up with any thing, though if you google search the pictures title (sun earth and moon)it comes up on the first page of images?

Andy90 · 19 Oct 2011 at 22:27

challengedavid said:
that really depends on what you put up
vile does not have to mean porn

Vile doesn't have to mean pornography, but anything that is published could fall foul of the Obscene Publications Act 1959, if if the entire article is, if taken as a whole, such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances, to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it.

"Article" is defined within Section 1 as anything containing material that is read or looked at, any sound recordings and any film or other picture record

DampCat · 19 Oct 2011 at 23:33

This is obviously the simplest approach.. but cant you just google the image name?

PaulB · 20 Oct 2011 at 09:18

Not used Flicker so not sure what is/isn't possible, but could you just change the filename so that whoever is linking to it (if that is whats happening) they are linking to a non-existent image?