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Using Ezinearticles Articles Without Links & Attribution

by terryrayburn
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Virtually every Ezinearticle article I have is copied and pasted on other websites without the required links staying in place, or even giving attribution of where the article came from.

Of course, there is also properly done republishing, but still...

This seems to happen especially with pen-name articles, though I don't know how the perpetrator would know the difference.

Is it worth following up and telling these people to stop, or better to just keep working and forget it?

(I'm told that an original article of mine is considered "first" by Google anyway -- can anybody confirm that?)
#articles #attribution #ezinearticles #links
  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Terry, what you are seeing is something that goes with the territory. They may just be copying/pasting from the article page, and the links are getting lost in the process. Or they may be cheating you.

    Step 1 - Send them an email requesting they restore the proper links and credit. Give them a couple of days to do so.

    Step 2 - If they fail to do that, send them a take-down notice with their web host cc:'d

    Step 3 - Send a DMCA notice directly to the host, and cc: the perp.

    If none of those work, you have a decision to make on how far you want to push things.

    As for Google...

    Very simply, whichever version they index first will be considered the 'original'.
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    • Profile picture of the author mcmahanusa
      Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

      Terry, what you are seeing is something that goes with the territory. They may just be copying/pasting from the article page, and the links are getting lost in the process. Or they may be cheating you.

      Step 1 - Send them an email requesting they restore the proper links and credit. Give them a couple of days to do so.

      Step 2 - If they fail to do that, send them a take-down notice with their web host cc:'d

      Step 3 - Send a DMCA notice directly to the host, and cc: the perp.

      If none of those work, you have a decision to make on how far you want to push things.

      As for Google...

      Very simply, whichever version they index first will be considered the 'original'.
      John's advice is sound (as always). An additional step you might take is to show them the proper links and credit, as the person you are addressing might have copied and pasted from another source that was using your article without links or attribution. Thus is the viral nature of the internet.

      Congratulations on the quality of your articles, as "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" (attributed to Charles Caleb Colton in 1820)
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    • Profile picture of the author Mangozoom
      Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

      Terry, what you are seeing is something that goes with the territory. They may just be copying/pasting from the article page, and the links are getting lost in the process. Or they may be cheating you.

      Step 1 - Send them an email requesting they restore the proper links and credit. Give them a couple of days to do so.

      Step 2 - If they fail to do that, send them a take-down notice with their web host cc:'d

      Step 3 - Send a DMCA notice directly to the host, and cc: the perp.

      If none of those work, you have a decision to make on how far you want to push things.

      As for Google...

      Very simply, whichever version they index first will be considered the 'original'.
      John has answered this one really ... As a committed article marketer this stuff makes me mad!

      One way I combat it is to ensure that I have a text link in the last paragraph and not just the resource box. Im my experience these lazy marketers who are not interested in giving
      credit to the writer will often not trim out this link.

      John
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      • Profile picture of the author terryrayburn
        Originally Posted by Mangozoom View Post

        John has answered this one really ... As a committed article marketer this stuff makes me mad!

        One way I combat it is to ensure that I have a text link in the last paragraph and not just the resource box. Im my experience these lazy marketers who are not interested in giving
        credit to the writer will often not trim out this link.

        John
        Thanks, but my understanding is that EZA doesn't allow a text link in the last paragraph, only in the resource box.
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by terryrayburn View Post

          Thanks, but my understanding is that EZA doesn't allow a text link in the last paragraph, only in the resource box.
          You can decide where the article ends and the resource-box begins, Terry. Readers (other than other marketers, competitors, researchers and so on) aren't so aware of that. It's obvious to you, because you type the resource-box into a separate box. That's why you and I think of it as a "box". It isn't a "box" to the readers, though. You can finish your article in what you know is technically the resource-box. And then have another paragraph-break and write what looks like a "resource-box". And exactly as John says, some people taking your article "without the resource-box" will actually leave one of your two links in there, because it doesn't look like a "resource-box". Try it. It works. Not always, of course, but sometimes.
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          • Profile picture of the author terryrayburn
            Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

            You can decide where the article ends and the resource-box begins, Terry. Readers (other than other marketers, competitors, researchers and so on) aren't so aware of that. It's obvious to you, because you type the resource-box into a separate box. That's why you and I think of it as a "box". It isn't a "box" to the readers, though. You can finish your article in what you know is technically the resource-box. And then have another paragraph-break and write what looks like a "resource-box". And exactly as John says, some people taking your article "without the resource-box" will actually leave one of your two links in there, because it doesn't look like a "resource-box". Try it. It works. Not always, of course, but sometimes.
            Very clever. I reviewed some articles at EZA and see actual examples of what you mean. Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jesus Perez
      Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

      Terry, what you are seeing is something that goes with the territory. They may just be copying/pasting from the article page, and the links are getting lost in the process. Or they may be cheating you.

      Step 1 - Send them an email requesting they restore the proper links and credit. Give them a couple of days to do so.

      Step 2 - If they fail to do that, send them a take-down notice with their web host cc:'d

      Step 3 - Send a DMCA notice directly to the host, and cc: the perp.

      If none of those work, you have a decision to make on how far you want to push things.

      As for Google...

      Very simply, whichever version they index first will be considered the 'original'.
      Step 4: Send a DMCA to Google. Very few people know that Google will remove that page from it's SERP's if you submit a proper DMCA. Takes a while, though.

      I echo other people's concerns. Is it worth your time? I already have DMCA's on email speed-dial with all the major file-sharing sites. So for me, it takes seconds to pull up a past email, change the link and send. Others may take longer.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trent Brownrigg
    I used to contact them and tell them to either take down the article or give me proper credit. Sometimes they did and sometimes they didn't. Eventually I figured out that the time spent searching out these people and contacting them wasn't worth wasting. I'd say you are better off spending that time writing/submitting more articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Trent Brownrigg View Post

      Eventually I figured out that the time spent searching out these people and contacting them wasn't worth wasting.
      To me, it isn't wasted at all. This can be very profitable and productive time very well spent.

      What's sometimes happened is that an outsourced worker, on behalf of the owner of a high-PR, context-relevant authority site with a targeted audience (exactly the sort of person I seriously want to syndicate my articles, and the exact reason I'm putting them in an article directory in the first place) has mistakenly/lazily omitted the attribution and link, which the site owner's happy to correct. In the process of getting that corrected (effortlessly, with a standard, pre-written email) I can - and sometimes do - make a very useful contact who wants further articles from me, which can lead to future high quality backlinks, traffic, opt-ins and sales for my sites. Far from a "waste of time", in other words!

      I have to seek out these articles anyway, as part of my tracking/monitoring, otherwise I'd have no way of knowing from which directory my work's been syndicated (though I admit that in practice, it very often seems to be EZA) and where I ought to be submitting in future. And if they don't reply or don't co-operate, it's barely any more effort to email them a DMCA notice, either.
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  • Profile picture of the author gandfscott
    I agree with Trent. Don't even bother contacting them as you're wasting time you could be spending better elsewhere. Having your content spread all over the web is always going to result in plagiarsim, but it will be by a small group of people.
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  • Profile picture of the author tuanng
    Thats the nature of the internet, everything is copied and pasted. Even complete websites have been ripped, let alone an article. Most of the time it's wise to just take it as compliment that someone liked your article enough to post it on your site, your time is worth more than chasing these people, who most likely wont bother answering your email anyway.
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