I'm just starting to play around with article marketing via ezine, and i was searching for sites that republished my articles. Out of 16 that allegedly used them, i could only find a few listed on google. Out of the few that i found, only 1 left the resource box with the links intact. I left comments on the ones that stripped it out requesting my links/resource box be put back up. Is there anything else i should do? Is there a place to report them at ezine? Is this pretty typical that people strip everything out? Should i just learn to live with it? One of the sites was basically all ezine articles, none of which had the original authors links. It's not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but i would like the benefit of the backlinks that should be there.
Apparently ezinearticles wants nothing to do with the enforcement of their own rules. From what I've found, the burden is solely on the author. They recommend contacting the owner and asking them to fix it, and if that doesn't work, contact their hosting provider. The more i look, it seems very few of the publishers adhere to the rules. A couple of the sites i've found are completely made up of 100's of ezine articles with no resource boxes. On the bright side, they don't rank as well as the original.
hey webtarded. i wasn't aware this went on. i'm new to doing article marketing as well, and affiliate marketing for that matter. i was wondering how you went about searching for sites that republished your articles? is this a feature on ezine or did you do something in google? just curious to see if anyone has done this, or does this in future with my articles also. cheers.
try to contact the owner of the site/blog, try to scare them by using phraes like "Lawsuit, copyrights..." Once I found my article posted elsewhere with someone else's links in it, so I contacted the guy. He removed the article but was really frustrated because he purchased 20 article for 50$ from some dude on a forum... 4 out of 20 articles were mine...
I send them a nasty message sometimes and I've even reported them to Google. It probably doesn't do any good - I usually just ignore them now. 1. Create a very unique pen name. A name that is nowhere else on Google. Something like "Harry H.K. Bellweather" ... Make sure it is unique by searching Google with quotes. 2. Add a Google Alert for your unique penname with quotes. 3. Google will now send you an email every time they find someone using your articles. This is a great way of tracking the distribution for your articles and for catching people doing dirty tricks like stripping your resource boxes.
I say talk to the blog owner, be nice at first, if it's not dealt with threaten with lawsuits ect... The first one will work immediately I find. they just need a stern talking to sometimes.
Saw this on the the Ezinearticles forum while I was looking for an answer to another question: "Just thought I'd let you know, I just received confirmation from a hosting company that they have suspended the account of a website owner who has been using articles from EzineArticles without the links and credits being left in. I found out purely by chance that my articles where being used and then checked a few others to find that the owner had scraped content from a large number of authors. After checking the whois and dns info I sent the individual a strongly worded email requesting immediate removal of all stolen content and as I didn't get a response within 24 hours I contacted the hosting company who where great. After filling in a complaint form I was emailed today to let me know that the account had been suspended. So if you are persistent you can enforce your rights." So perhaps do what this guy did, contact them, if no response go for the hosting company
You can do like Zibblu suggested and set up a unique name/email alert, but i normally just pick a sentence from my article that's unique, then enclose it in quotes and search for it. I probably would do the email alert method if i had a more unique pen name. Either way should work for you though.
There's nothing you can really do. Sometimes sending a nasty email (not mean, more like legal threatening) might do it. The only thing you can really do is go after them with a lawyer. Great suggestion. Definitely go for their balls. They deserve it for stealing.
Normally I try to find their adress and put letters in all their neighours mailboxes with the words. Your neighbour "name" is gay Greetz smetten
I'm taking it that this was a joke, and in fact had you ever done this people may have thought you were running a dating service... LOL, there nothing wrong with being gay. I have gay friends who have a hard time finding other gay friends in the neighborhood, doing something like this would help my gay friend find a match LOL.