Removing Author Bio from Ezine Articles

Hi,

EzineArticles isn't responsible for the people who remove the biography before reprinting an article so you don't want your wife to contact them.

The best thing is to contact the website owner and ask them to add the biography or remove the article. I give them a deadline of 72 hours to do this. If they don't do it I complain to their web host.

Bonnie

No, unfortunately they're not interested.

I keep two standard, pre-written, fill-in-the-blanks emails to send to people who do this.

The first is to thank them for re-publishing the article, explain to them that they seem to have made a mistake not printing the resource-box, adding it in the email, and inviting them please to be kind enough to add it back on. And offering them other articles and being friendly and chatty, because of course one wants to get articles syndicated. This sometimes works. (Sometimes it's a genuine mistake, that their outsourcee webmaster has done "for them").

If it doesn't, after about a week, the second is a standard, fill-in-the-blanks DMCA notice, also sent to them, informing them that they have to remove the content which is in breach of copyright. And this one gets a copy sent to their host, their registrar, and Google, so that they can see those copies have been sent with it (no "BCC's"!). One way or another, this gets the offending content removed about 99% of the time. And the remaining 1% you just ignore and forget about.

There's another issue here, too. Sometimes. You need to write resource-boxes that people don't want to remove when they syndicate articles. That's explained in this post.

There are, of course, some people who feel a bit "incensed" by that and think "I should be able to write any damn resource-box I like without worrying about this". And as "right" as that is, those are perhaps people who'll have frequent "issues" over this.

The downside's very limited, though. Usually no real harm's done.

The thing is to deal with this quickly and efficiently, taking up the minimum amount of time and effort possible over it. Once you get used to it, it's a 2-minute business, when it happens. And then one can focus one's time and attention on more positive, constructive things.

You do need those 2 standard, pre-written emails, though.

If you can't find their email address on their site, just send it to "admin" and "info" and "support" at theirdomain.com. That will usually find them.

Just file a DMCA with their host.
Instructions and sample DMCA here
http://domainingdiva.com/legal-issue...ipoff-artists/

I would contact person. If they don't take down then get dcma to get it taken down

Glad this question was asked. I've been wondering how to handle a similar situation myself and the advise here helps me out. Thanks!!