How to Disable Hot Linking

Hot linking is a topic that has been discussed in this blog and this is a situation which no webmaster would like to happen with their website. Hot linking clearly eats up the bandwidth of your website and thereby caused negative impact on the overall search engine performance of the website. Hot linking usually happens when large files are hosted on your website and other small websites want to take advantage of this without using their own bandwidth.
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Hot Linking and How it Affects Your Website

Hot linking is the process of displaying any type of files on a website using a link to the files saved on any other website. By doing this the website on which the files are hosted will experience a loss in their bandwidth and money, as their files are used by external website without their knowledge or permission. This process is also known by the name bandwidth theft and is used by many webmasters to displaying files on their website without upgrading their bandwidth.
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