Don't Wake the Sheeple!

[Myron Proudfoot]

XKCD warns us to not wake the Sheeple!

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wake_up_sheeple.png

Mouseover Text: You will be led to judgement like lambs to the slaughter--a simile whose existence, I might add, will not do your species any favors.

 

[bjornart]

I'm looking forward to the action movie based on this. There were some good ideas in the xkcd-forum thread.

 

[defaultdotxbe]

i beleive XKCD asks if you are not embedding the image to link to the comic page instead, not the image

http://xkcd.com/1013/

 

[Alareth]

i beleive XKCD asks if you are not embedding the image to link to the comic page instead, not the image

http://xkcd.com/1013/

Which would be contrary to the line under every strip that reads

Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wake_up_sheeple.png

 

[defaultdotxbe]

Which would be contrary to the line under every strip that reads

please re-read my post

i believe XKCD asks if you are not embedding the image to link to the comic page instead, not the image

 

[kevsta]

i beleive XKCD asks if you are not embedding the image to link to the comic page instead, not the image

http://xkcd.com/1013/

and which would the the correct SEO best practice as images do not accrue pagerank, but the pages they are on, do.

in this case however the link is nofollowed anyway, so it wouldn't make that much difference to him apart from there being more chance of a visitor clicking more pages into the site from the page link than the image link.

ps lol'd at the cartoon.

 

[Myron Proudfoot]

please re-read my post

Argh, I was just trying to avoid an illegal hotlink. I'd edit my post if I still could.

 

[Klimax]

Argh, I was just trying to avoid an illegal hotlink. I'd edit my post if I still could.

xkcd is specificaly mentioned as hotlink friendly...
(see http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=224939 )

 

[Cl1mh4224rd]

The better reason to link to the page over the image itself is that you miss the mouseover text with just the image.

You will be led to judgement like lambs to the slaughter--a simile whose existence, I might add, will not do your species any favors.

 

[Alareth]

Linking to xkcd got me my only yellow card.