There is a new Google manual action that you need to be aware of named “image mismatch.” This manual action is when your images on your site don’t match what Google is indexing and displaying in their search results.
Google has a new help document on this over here where it reads:
An anonymous reader sent me a screen shot of the notification he received for this on his site:
It reads:
A form of cloaking or something less intentional like using hotlink protection techniques to prevent or discourage users from stealing your images?
Have you seen this manual action?
Forum discussion Google Webmaster Help.
