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Is this website braking Article directories TOS or not?

by IM Lover
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I have some competition on one of my niche websites, it has used articles from "articlesbase.com" and at the bottom of each one has simply written: Article from articlesbase.com without credits to the actual writer.

I read over the FAQ and it states:
You may add articles to your website as long as you comply with our Terms of Use. Our TOS basically states that you must keep full author credit with all its respective links,
After further inspecting on some of the Articles themselves it seems they do not have anchor links pointing back to the original writer which is odd. So does that make it alright to then go and rip them and use it without credits to the actual owner?

I am in no way bothered nor trying to get anyone into trouble, I just wanted to hear what other Warriors views were on this. Such as, do you think that it's fine for him to rip the articles without real credits pointing back to the actual writer.

Perhaps I have this 100% wrong, will be good to get someone's view.

Cheers

-Lee
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  • Profile picture of the author ibacklinkpro
    Ohh it's wrong, but what are you going to do about it? Honestly, you should just ignore this guy, if he is posting this much duplicate content, his site wont be ranking too well for much longer (if he is now...)
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    • Profile picture of the author IM Lover
      Originally Posted by ibacklinkpro View Post

      Ohh it's wrong, but what are you going to do about it? Honestly, you should just ignore this guy, if he is posting this much duplicate content, his site wont be ranking too well for much longer (if he is now...)
      I'm not going to quibble about it trust me, I just wanted to know if he is braking rules or not, I guess that because the actual articles themselves on the directory do not have any anchor links it's fine for him to use them.
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      • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
        Originally Posted by Warrior Lee View Post

        I'm not going to quibble about it trust me, I just wanted to know if he is braking rules or not, I guess that because the actual articles themselves on the directory do not have any anchor links it's fine for him to use them.
        Ok - I think a lot of people aren't reading your second post. If there truly is no link in the author's RESOURCE box (usually under the google ads below the article) then IT IS ok to reproduce the article without links. You can't reproduce non existent links!

        However - I would double check that you didn't just miss the resource box when you checked on the directory.

        If there are links, then no, it isn't ok to reproduce the article without them. That is the whole purpose of article directories. That someone else will publish your article, including the link(s) back to your site. As Alexa says a quick email followed by a DMCA notice enlightens most article thieves.
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        • Profile picture of the author IM Lover
          Originally Posted by rosetrees View Post

          Ok - I think a lot of people aren't reading your second post. If there truly is no link in the author's RESOURCE box (usually under the google ads below the article) then IT IS ok to reproduce the article without links. You can't reproduce non existent links!

          However - I would double check that you didn't just miss the resource box when you checked on the directory.

          If there are links, then no, it isn't ok to reproduce the article without them. That is the whole purpose of article directories. That someone else will publish your article, including the link(s) back to your site. As Alexa says a quick email followed by a DMCA notice enlightens most article thieves.
          Thanks Rose that is exactly what I needed to know, I checked and they had no links at the bottom. So, it seems that he is "not" braking no rules then I guess.

          Cheers

          -Lee
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  • Profile picture of the author Barry Unruh
    Here's the easy answer...Just send a support message to Articlesbase that you "believe" the owner of this website is incorrectly using content and then walk away.
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    • Profile picture of the author IM Lover
      Originally Posted by Barry Unruh View Post

      Here's the easy answer...Just send a support message to Articlesbase that you "believe" the owner of this website is incorrectly using content and then walk away.
      As mentioned I'm not here to get the website in trouble, I just want to know if it's against the rules or not, the reason I have posted in this section is because I was unable to post in the articles section.

      Just wanted to hear some views of other Warriors that's all. I'm not going to go out of my way be contacting support on there.

      Cheers

      -Lee
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  • Profile picture of the author ibacklinkpro
    You could do that, but unless that person is a member of Articlebase, what can they do to him? They could write a scary 'Copyright type email' but they aren't going to sue him for something like this...
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  • Profile picture of the author Frank Ayres
    I would say definitely against thie TOS, but why worry about someone else's site why not just make yours better and beat them in the rankings?
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    • Profile picture of the author IM Lover
      Originally Posted by Frank Ayres View Post

      I would say definitely against thie TOS, but why worry about someone else's site why not just make yours better and beat them in the rankings?
      Not worried about it at all, I was just curious by it. I'm not here to argue the point nor get into a debate.

      Cheers

      -Lee
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  • Profile picture of the author gizmo222
    Many users that benefit from the articles of free article directories are cutting the resource boxes and links to have no outbound links. It's a pitty when you check the appeareance of your articles via search engine and only 10 percent leave the links in it. A smart way to let the site-/farmowner is to comment the article simply with "TOS Violation" - and nothing more.

    Believe me, that works
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Yes, the website is breaching the terms of service of the article directory.

      No, in my opinion there's absolutely no point at all in notifying the article directory: it will be neither interesting nor relevant to them and they won't do anything about it.

      There's no question of "duplicate content" involved here: duplicate content and syndicated content are two different things - Article Marketers - Lay the Duplicate Content Myth To Rest Once and For All | Internet Marketing and Publishing

      When this happens, the reason for it (in each case) is one of three things:-

      (i) The person is a deliberate thief;

      (ii) They're using an "autoblog" which doesn't take resource-boxes - this likely possibility may overlap with (i) above;

      (iii) Their webmaster made a mistake and forgot to include your resource-box as required by the article directory's terms of service.

      These people are not really doing you any harm, but still, I always them follow up, myself. I do benefit from doing so, overall.

      But I know from many earlier discussions here, on this subject, that my primary objective in such instances seems to be different from that of many others. I don't want to get the content taken down: I want to get my backlinks added to it.

      When someone takes my articles without my resource-box and backlinks, I contact them explaining what's happened (they may well not know - such work is commonly outsourced), thanking them for syndicating my article, offering them more articles (if I can add them to my syndication network, so much the better, of course) and asking them please to be kind enough to ensure that my resource-box (attached) is appended to the article within 7 days.

      I have a standard, pre-written, fill-in-the-blanks email to send to people, when this happens. It takes almost no time at all.

      (It costs nothing to try, and if it doesn't work, then I also have a standard, pre-written, fill-in-the-blanks DMCA notice to send to their host a week later, with copies to their registrar, Google and themselves. That takes the content away, 99% of the time.)

      You can almost always find out who their hosting company is from a site like who-hosts.com.

      I always find it hard to understand why so many people apparently don't bother doing this. It's almost effortless, and the benefits from it can actually be considerable. It's not as if there's any downside.
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