Yeah so there is a site posting my ezinearticles but is not including the links to my page. They are only posting the text of the link, but it is not a link you can click on. A user would have to copy the text and paste it into a browser to go to my site. What should I do? Just report them to Google for copyright infringment? They are running adsense so it'd screw them up.
I have encountered this before. Regularly. I usually try to write a nice-sounding message requesting the link: "Geez, saw you posted my article. That's great. I noticed the by-line got left off. Obviously, that's my only compensation for writing the article on BLAH-BLAH-BLAH... I'm sure it was just a mistake on your part... but would you mind adding the link back? Here's the HTML... <a href="..... etc. Thanks! Thamelas..." This approach, I find, works more than half the time... It's a pretty easy way to get links (in a sense)... This whole post makes me think that I should search around (again) for article recyclers who've dropped the links... Good luck,
Do they have to have an active link or can they just have the reference??? I have found this on several of my articles and then there are the no-follows (bastards)hehe
They're really not supposed to alter the article. Period. So editing the link syntax violates the letter and spirit of the thing... I wouldn't mind, so much, if people fixed the typos...
If there's a contact email, definitely contact them. Don't be threatening or angry but remind that they should print the exact article or take it down. If they ignore it or don't provide a contact or comment form, I guess you could talk to Google or just ignore it.
Well I contacted him. He didn't respond. The next day the article was gone. Now he posted it back again without the links. So...I reported him to Google Adsense for copyright violation. I've been looking at his site. He has tons of articles done the same way. He's prolly screwing over others on this forum too. Here is a link to his site: http://www.wiistars.com
The approach of acting like it was a mistake works great, even when we all know they did it on purpose. It allows them to save face and make the change and it makes it so you don't have to act like a (justifiable) jerk which might cause them to get angry and take down the article and links all together. Very good strategy to use in other areas of your life as well.
This thread and a bit of bad luck has got me looking at my ezinearticles links (those on the articles posted at the site). I am sad to report that it appears as if some of the links in the author bio box are getting scrambled -- and not for HTML reasons. The link breaks that occur when you use a long <a href="... to do a deep link appear to become easily broken. I had my admin post several dozen articles (salvaged from an old book I wrote)... and she knows basic HTML, but she missed the corruption. This might be something people want to regularly check. As noted in other post here, I see that one directory which I thought gave good links is actually using (now using?) nofollow. That would be articlesbase dot com. (I'm in process of removing my 100+ articles from that directory...)