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Hijacked! I didnt new somebody could do that with my ad :-(

by rapidscc
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Hi y'all

I feel bad about a few minutes ago. I didnt knew that some people could hijack our ads and do that just for fun when we are actually promoting products to earn a living.

This is about an ad I placed (keyworded properly to have a first page google rank in search of about 8m)

When I checked for the ad earlier I found a page in the same ad site carrying my entire title and some of my wordings. While my ad is missing.

I went to the site and there was literally nothing in it. It wasnt even promoting a Get paid to program.

It was really a waste. They hijacked my ad and did nothing..maybe just enjoyed a good laugh out of it.

As a warrior I'm affected but I know that I'll still be able to write ads which will have a high search engine ranking..I just feel sorry for the wasted search engine ranking..which have gone down already since the hijackers didnt placed any valuable contents...

~Omar
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
    Do you mean you had an AdWords ad that was hijacked?
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Lockwood
    When you say hijack, do you mean they just copied the text of your ad, or something else?
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  • Profile picture of the author rapidscc
    It was an ad placed in a free ad site.

    In the free ad site we are allowed to place a single page ad.

    If the user prefers they can also make a website in the free ad site.

    The free ad site has I think a google PR 3 or PR 4 I havent veried yet since I dont have a google toolbar in this PC

    This is exactly what happened.

    about three days ago I wrote an ad. I placed in the page nice keywords. It had a high google rank as already mentioned.

    Today when I checked out the ad in google. My ad no longer in the result, instead I found a similar (very similar even the wordings) ad pointing to a free webpage on the same free ad site I placed my ad into. When I clicked, it did went into the free ad site but the page has nothing on it.

    I already reported the matter to the free ad site since they've included a report button. In the reasons for reporting I found that they've included a "Ad Hijacking" option. So I thought that maybe they've already experienced a similar event before..

    Anyway Im over it now, I also made several ads and hope to get the same ranking I had before...Thanks for asking ppl!

    ~Omar
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    some people just have no morals or values in this day and age... It's a shame but it's the truth...

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    • Profile picture of the author Seattle Mike
      I have had that happen with free ads before. Craigslist was notorious for that. Post a great title and ad and within 1 hour someone else used it and flagged my ad off. Very cheesy.

      Why waste time writing ads when they can just steal everyone elses...
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