moxie-drive.com/articles/article.php/09-06-2008The-truth-about-Hydrogen-gas-saver-devices.htm I wrote this article about Hydrogen gas saver devices and among the other sites, I also posted in onto moxie-drive.com in order to promote a run your car on water affiliate product. The editor or webmaster of this site, published my article, however, the part of the article where I posted my affiliate link has been deleted, and on another part of the article he posted his water4gas affiliate link. That sucks. Although I have posted the same (or similar) article to many article submission sites, this one gets the best google rating. This article is on the first page for hydrogen gas saver keyword on google search and is getting decent traffic, too bad the webpage owner ripped me off like this. Is there anything I can do about it.
Yes I have posted on several sites including ezine articles, There's no doubt that the article is mine, he even put my name and my website in the bottom, however he sneaked his affiliate link and removed mine, and that's what bothers me
Did you contact him to inquire him about this? If he is ignorant, you can always proceed to delete the article from the article directory's database I guess.
You submitted the article to him. Theres nothing on his site that says he will keep your affiliate link in. Sorry, but its your own fault for handing over your article...
You shouldn't have put a link to his site... free link. Yeah - I would contact him and ask to have it removed!
I removed the hyperlink, I tried to contact the owner, there is a contact form which I filled up I guess I'm gonna have to wait and see what happens
I'm not trying to be abrasive, but clarify a few things if you can: You wrote a unique content article? You posted it to several websites (article repositories) with hyper text links to your affiliate site/link? You're not being paid by the sites to publish your articles on theirs? You're doing so to promote your own product? Does the TOS state the site owner can edit at their discretion? » Does the site have a TOS? «
Yep, I wrote a 100% unique and well written article. Yes I did, however I use my own .com domain to do this, mydomain.com actually redirects directly to the affiliate product, which is allowed in the article directories (Ezine has no problem with this, they don't allow affiliate links from subdomains to be put, but they allow a direct .com,.org,.net domain) I wrote the article to inform the people about the potential of hydrogen gas saver devices, and how good they really are, if they decided to click on my link okay, if not it's still okay, I'm not forcing anyone to buy the product, I just mentioned it in the end of the article. Since the owner gets free articles posted on his site, that means there are a lot of articles for his site to be found on google. Each new articles increases the chance of him getting search engine traffic. A lot of articles, might mean a lot of traffic, which in instance means $$$ for him, either from adsense or something else. There is no TOS
There isnt much you can really do, contact the hosting company and try to get the site takin down. Or use copyscape in the future!
I wouldn't really go that far, it's not that big of a deal, but I'll know not to post there next time
This one goes down in my book as a "live and learn" experience. It may not be worth your effort to go after this person, but do know this "What goes around comes around." He will get his due eventually. It is good that you have taken the time to warn others.