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You can’t please all diva’s

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CraftGossip.com prides itself on being up to date with all the latest craft news and gossip and as a result 1000’s of readers come to our site to find product reviews and links to great craft sites.

Our editors find gossip all over the internet and send our readers to these websites by writing a post which may feature images from their website. Credit is always given in the form of a very valuable link back to the originating website.

Occasionally you come across a website that has strict No Image Use policy and our editors abide by that rule when it is clearly visible.

Having your product featured on a website or having your website mentioned on another website is a great honor or at least we here are CraftGossip.com believe so. We love seeking out blogs and websites that have linked to us and enjoy reading peoples reviews of our websites and that is after 10 years of running a website. The novelty has not worn off. We love when people link to us and we love when people talk about our posts and projects.

So when blog and website owners come to us and demand their product or other images be removed despite giving them credit and linking to their website and driving 100’s if not more of craft readers to their website, then we oblige by deleting the whole post.

If you have a blog or website and don’t want people to use your images under any circumstances (even if it means 100’s of people visiting your site) then be sure to add a “Don’t Drive Traffic To Me” banner on your site.

We of course do not condone image or text stealing without credit and definitely do not condone image or text stealing without links.

We certainly will not link to those websites in this post as bad publicity is still good publicity and these websites don’t deserve any.

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Comments

  2. I can understand certain sites or bloggers not wanting their ideas/images/etc posted with out first asking permission. If they are an established site with a high traffic volume already, they may be concerned that traffic is now seeing their content elsewhere. Thats the only reason I can think of that would cause distress if they are given full credit in the postings on this site. I don’t really mind myself, but I am just starting out and don’t have a high traffic volume, but I know SEO and linkbacks from a well established (and really good) site like this would benefit everyone, I would think.

  3. As my Mom likes to say “They are cuting off their noses to spite their faces!” What dummies.

    I would faint if I was featured and then I would blog about it!

  4. I fail to understand why anybody in their right mind would NOT want links back to their sites, as that only means driving greatly needed traffic to that particular site, but also can mean increased sales for the site owners. we at SewingBusiness.com LOVE your site and know you’ve put in a lot of effort to glean all the wonderful projects and information you provide.

    Thanks for all your hard work.

    Sarah J Doyle
    http://PatternsThatFitYou.com
    http://SewingBusiness.com blog

  5. With the rampant use of images on the internet today (even big name advertising agencies are taking photos with out credits or payment) the best way for website and blog owners to protect their images is to watermark them.

    By the way I would love your site to mention my tiny little blog so I would need a BIG sign that said “drive traffic to ME”

  6. I agree with what everyone has said here. Not only would it be fantastic to feature on a blog like this but I have lost count of the amount of blogs I have clicked through to and then started following because of a post on here. So many I would not have known about if it weren’t for you. And I have noticed that in many of your posts you link two or three times back to the original post AND the picture clicks back to them too.

    Their loss.

  7. i personally love all the links you do of mine! thanks for driving more traffic my way and giving me some new followers as well. appreciate it tons. -V

  8. I don’t get why they even HAVE a website if they 1) don’t want traffic to it and 2) are afraid their images/ideas are going to be copied.

    1) Links ARE the Internet. You only exist if someone links to you.

    2) If it’s on the Internet, someone is going to steal it. Get used to it. Be smart.

    Obviously these sites/companies/people just don’t have a clue about how the world works… let alone the Internet.

  10. Divas is the plural. You have used the possessive with that apostrophe and you don’t mean it. Please stop miseducating people. Many thanks.

  11. This is a tough call for me. Personally I would love it if my website were featured, not because I need more business but because I love to hear people brag about my product. At the same time I can understand people being possessive about their images. I think it isn’t really theft though if you are borrowing an image to feature their product and give them full credit and help boost their google rankings. You are essentially paying for the usage by posting a link back to them. You are correct that if they do not want their images taken for even spotlight blog articles then they need to post it clearly or have a blog policy in place. There is also simple HTML codes that they can put on their website to make right clicking difficult (but not impossible). Anyhow keep up the good works highlighting smart Divas who appreciate and bask in the glow of the spotlite!

  13. please, feel free to find my blog. write about my blog. link to my blog. link from my blog. you may take and use pictures of my husband, my dog, my dog’s husband and any knitted item i may have made. you may link to me to tell me you ain’t gonna link to me. i guarantee you this diva ain’t gonna complain.

    i’m just saying.

  15. So why are they posting stuff on the internet then! If they are that possessive of their images then they should set up their site to block any thing from being lifted off their sight. As long as credit is given where credit is due what is the big deal!

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