You may not be aware that we’ve had a change to our terms of service that requires a link under every image (or group of up to five images in one post) used from our site. This is because Google Image Search picks up images from all over the Web and displays them, siphoning traffic from our site. So even though the images came from Vintage Holiday Crafts, Google could be sending traffic that rightfully belongs to us to other sites that post our images. To add insult to injury, because there aren’t links to our site next to the images, visitors don’t know where they came from. So not only do we never get the traffic we worked for hundreds of hours to get, but people also pick up the images from these other sites and further disseminate them. I’m sure you had no idea of these unintended consequences when you posted the images! Indeed, we only discovered recently that this was a problem. That’s the why the terms of use were changed.

I’ll send you an e-mail about this but I wanted to post it here, too, so other people can understand why it’s important to follow our terms of use.