Help with Somebody redirecting to my image

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I was checking my backlinks the other day in Ahref.com when I noticed there was a Redirect, hmmm thats weird so I click for more info and I found this:

somedudeswebsite.ru/go.php?url=http://mywebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/reallycoolpicture.jpg

It basically redirected to an image in my wordpress directory. Anyone know how I can block this?
 


simplest would be to just rename it

or, if you want to just block that referer from your site via .htaccess:

Code: 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} somedudeswebsite\.ru [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

should do it.

change the rewrite rule to the image if you want, although they may link to others this way.
 
What if you renamed the pic that shows on your site? Then named a pic of a dildo or something to the one the guy is leeching off of you so the dildo shows on his site?
 
Thanks everybody. I renamed the image to something else and did the .htaccess thingy. But when I go to the redirect link it still takes me to that image that its linked to. Is this a cache thing? Also this is my .htaccess code:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?mywebsite.com [NC]

RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ http://i.imgur.com/g7ptdBB.png [NC,R,L]
 
I think you need to give more info on your site, is it indexed? do you need/want search engine traffic?
 
If their redirect has no http referrer, then your .htaccess rules will do nothing since it allows blank referrers.

Can you substantiate that their image request even contains that header?

Finally, unless they are drawing some serious bandwidth, I'd ignore it.
 
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