Help! - Someone has added my adsense code to their site

Discussion in 'AdSense' started by Rasputin, Apr 9, 2007.

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    Some moron has taken a page from one of my sites and published it on their own site.

    Worse, they have left my adsense code intact, with my publisher ID

    Worse again, they have increased the number of adblocks to four on the page - why? i can't imagine.

    Still worse, they only live a few kilometres away so might be seen as associated with me (its a page from a travel site about my region and they've added the page to their holiday rental site). I don't know them at all.

    Even worse, they use hidden text on their site so will probably get banned soon enough.

    I found out because in google webmasters I saw a link from their site to mine - they left part of the menu intact, which links to pages in my site.

    I've emailed them telling them to remove the page - no response yet - and I've emailed adsense support telling them it's not my site.

    Is there anything else I should do?
     
    Rasputin, Apr 9, 2007 IP
  2. Laceygirl

    Laceygirl Notable Member

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    Just go to his house if he doesn't answer. The dude probably doesn't know that he's done it.
     
    Laceygirl, Apr 9, 2007 IP
  3. patataur

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    wait a bit for his answer.
     
    patataur, Apr 10, 2007 IP
  4. axlarry

    axlarry Notable Member

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    That's the best you could do I guess. Contacting the adsense support before anything happen is a very nice move. I think you're fine now.
     
    axlarry, Apr 10, 2007 IP
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    indepth184 Peon

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    Go and stand outside his house with a megaphone :)

    nah, seriously, as long as you've emailed support telling them you should be ok, make sure you keep a copy of the email you've sent them and get a read/delivery receipt if you can
     
    indepth184, Apr 16, 2007 IP
  6. Rasputin

    Rasputin Peon

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    i'd forgotten about this, but should explain how it ended...

    I had a response from adsense, which curiously referred to the other site as 'my site' which was a bit worrying as it was never was, a point I had made a few times in my mail to them.

    The problem page is still on line but the adsense ads have been removed, as have the photos and the style sheet - so now its just a text file on someone else's site with lots of links back to my site. So I can live with that.

    No need for megaphones or baseball bats this time.
     
    Rasputin, Apr 16, 2007 IP
  7. Fka200

    Fka200 Guest

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    Contact the hosting company. If your Adsense is not in jeopardy anymore, let the hosting company know he is violating your copyright.
     
    Fka200, Apr 16, 2007 IP