Finding Your Articles Syndicated With No Resource Box?

Allen - I am on the road and away from my desktop computer right now - but I saw a software a couple of weeks ago that 'built' sites using article directory content - and it stripped the resource box 'for you' as a 'time saver'! YIKES!!

I will see if I can find that link when I get back - the point being that if this is a software being promoted you are going to see more of this happening (and yes, I know, it happens enough already)

Melody

There are many sites which would just copy your articles and not the resource box. Lately I don't even bother with them that much as most of them are on blogspot and you can't do much with them but mark them as spam.

I've had that happen many times as well. Usually on junk blogs that may have been auto-filled with nothing but articles and AdSense stuff along the sidebar. And the thing that gets me is--what benefit do they get from stripping out the resource boxes anyway.

What steams me, like you said, is that you put the work into writing the article--they leverage your work to get content--and you get no reward in the end from having them do that. Glad you took the time to write to them!

BTW I checked out your website-articles.net. You have great ideas for building your author base. I'll give it a shot sometime. Good luck!

Apologies if I'm wrong, but doesn't the Caffeinated Content plug-in for Wordpress scrape articles from somewhere without including the author's resource box?

Coco28 - caffinated content includes the author resource box!

Hi Allen,

Glad to see you bring this up. It didn't take long to do and was effective.

The excuse that was given sounds similar to the excuses I get when I tell people to remove my content from their website.

Here's the latest response I received when I sent a ceast and desist email"

"The article in question was obtained from ezinearticles.com with credits to
the author."

What the guy had done was stripped out my resource box and left a link to Ezine Article Submission - Submit Your Best Quality Original Articles For Massive Exposure, Ezine Publishers Get 25 Free Article Reprints, which means he conciously removed my resource box.

I guess he thought his lame explanation was supposed to appease me.

All The Best,


Tony

TeamGlobal,

Makes you wonder if this guy is scamming articles from EZA or if he is just a stupid idiot. LOL

AL

I've seen a couple of my articles used with the resource box text there but the link was not active.

i didn't bother going after them though. I think I may from now on though.

Hi Folks,

Some article directories do strip out anchor text in the resource box ( most of the good ones don't though ) so make sure you include your site URL as well if you want a clickable link back to your site.

- Dean

There is at least one PLR package floating around which has thousands of articles, some of which have been ripped from article directories (one article I checked in this package had been submitted to EzineArticles in 2006).

I have no details about who sells it, but I longer buy massive PLR article packs because of this. Besides, having the author's resource box at the end of an article doesn't seem to harm my sites, so I just use reprint articles now (they're free and easy to get).

Yeah, I've had the same thing happen. And I've seen the sites crediting the article directory for the article, instead of leaving my bio box intact.

Alan , would you agree that it would be nice to somehow have the option to secure the resource box no mater how the article was used? However , on a sad note we know this will never become a reality.

It is sad that people are out there taking advantage of marketers that are busy writing articles for their site and they come along, steal the content and try to get credit for the work.

Jason

Is there not a way to somehow program a site that will not allow you to copy it? Its seems to me I have ran into this before with something and I tried to copy it and it would let me. We need someone to program a site that doesnt allow you to copy and paste. I understand that someone can still just copy word for word but then they have to work for it.

I've noticed my articles turning up on websites with no resource box a lot. I used to make sure that I had a link in the body of my article as well as the resource box. The scum that strip my resource box didn't seem to mind leaving the link in the body intact.

The recent draconian changes in article directory rules has put a stop to me doing that. I think that Ezinearticles still allows it but their rules of what you can and can't do made it impossible for me to get an article approved without a lot of hassle so I don't bother any more.

Steve

I don't know how to get cafinated content to strip out a resource box! all the articles I have used have had resource boxes attached. I use the defaut articles template for articles - are you using something differnet?

Hey Allen, thanks for letting us know about this site. Sure sounds like they're bullshitting to me.

I try to keep an eye out for my articles using Google Alerts, but I usually see that people are publishing my articles correctly so I don't check as thoroughly as I should. This is a good reminder to do so.

A great deal of this can be easily corrected as far as scrappers and etc... Which would render some products useless when it comes to article directories, such products as caffinated content and the one melody mentioned...

The only question, would the article directories be willing to pay for the solution to stop a great deal of this ???

James

It has gotten worse over the years. I am watching a new article I put on ezine articles and had isnare submit to other sites.

All of the sites posting to their pages so far have messed with my sig file. Examples: One is cutting the 5 tips article into 5 different posts, no link to my site. Another put my sig file at the top after the title in a separate box and then at the bottom said if published, make sure to credit them. It makes it look like they originated the article. One saying he is the author, etc.

I cannot keep up with getting this all straightened out anymore. Many are not keeping the sig file in at all.

And then I am using a new course being put together that the person plans on selling on clickbank. He blatantly says in it, to repurpose articles by adding paragraphs, add links, take several articles, stripping the sig files, putting them together as a report with all the sig files at the end and more. This is what he does.

I have not found time to email him yet with a complaint, but I plan on it. He is teaching a whole new crop of people to disregard copyright.

And then because I am a health professional, I also have people use some of my articles, but link to other vitamins and products as though I endorse them.

I have become very discouraged about writing articles to go in directories at this point. After it is scraped a couple times, there is often no indication that I wrote the article and certainly no links back to my site. Why continue to write them?

Jeannie

I would agree with allen not all article directories are this way.. Many good ones allow links in the body without killing your article with those "Evil Google Ads" ...

James

I thought in the Terms of Service for the major directories it specifically state what can and can't be done?

I wonder if anyone has ever actually sued someone for messing / tampering with their articles?

The other day, I was checking backlinks and noticed my yahoo answers were being posted on some type of answer forum I had never seen. It was very strange. They even put an avatar on my answer somehow. I got a bakclink from it, but I'm sure there are lots of other sites borrowing information from article directories or yahoo answers.

this is something that drives me up the wall.

every time i search for one of my own articles on google i find sites posting them without resource box. i've had a little success sending emails to hosting companies with details of the offending sites but i get the impression that they aren't all that interested.