How To Let Publishers Know They Need To Include Your Resource Box
September 9th, 2007 GlennP
Over the past few years iSnare has been helping article marketers in the fight against some few publishers who cannot understand the value and hardwork exerted in an article and would just reprint it without the resource box.
Know I hope this post would help get the fight to the next level as you too can do something on your own. Article Marketers often stand helpless against this, but not if they know how to ask or if not force publishers to reprint articles properly.
First let us know how this situation could possibly happen:
1. Tools won’t help to a few publishers, iSnare has provided tools in the site which includes the whole article and resource box properly yet still it is still not enough as some publishers would crawl or reprint the article data without the resource box.
2. Good if the site receives article data straight from the iSnare Publisher service, those sites would surely get the resource box properly as iSnare is the one sending them the articles. But what if the articles reprinted came from other article sites who accepted your article from iSnare? We can never really control the MOB… Out of 100 publishers there will surely be 5 or 10 who’d reprint the articles improperly… very frustrating.
3. Email groups, though seeing the articles distributed by iSnare.com through the emails contains tons of instructions and terms for the author’s help on how to reprint or use the article properly. Yet, still there are publishers who fails to notice or even care for these terms.
Ok, for the steps on how to report these kinds of publishers.
- If you saw the article illegally reprinted in a forum or community site, look for a moderator or the administrator and send a message regarding the problem and claim your article.
- If you saw your article in a web site (not a blog, forum or community site) look for the “contact us” link or “contact” link. True and non-spam websites often do have these pages.
- If you saw your article in a blogspot post, report the blog ASAP by using this tool.
Ok, you’ve tried everything but all things failed.
There are still ways to do further action.
1. Search for the site domain owner’s information by doing a whois lookup on the site, there are online tools such us this and this that could help your get the information you needed.
Here is a sample WHOIS on blogspot.com
Whois Record
Registrant:
Google Inc. (DOM-345046)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US
Domain Name: blogspot.com
Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com
Administrative Contact:
DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US
+1.6502530000
Fax- +1.6506188571
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
DNS Admin (NIC-1467103) Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US
+1.6502530000
Fax- +1.6506188571
Created on…………..: 2000-Jul-31.
Expires on…………..: 2010-Jul-31.
Record last updated on..: 2006-Dec-29 16:10:45.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.GOOGLE.COM
NS2.GOOGLE.COM
NS3.GOOGLE.COM
NS4.GOOGLE.COM
Obviously, the number and email is presented.
If it wont work. Then it’s time to send an abuse report to the server host. Every website is hosted in a server, they will surely have a hosting company hosting their sites. Not unless the website is operated by a big company like Google and Yahoo.
Ok, this only one of the many examples how to contact the web host admin or abuse contact person.
Using an nslookup tool such us this lookup for the IP address of the website. In the tool I provided enter the domain name of the website. Like for example www.freecontentarticles.com or freecontentarticles.com
The result will look like:
DNS server handling your query: localhost
DNS server’s address: 127.0.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer: ww.freecontentarticles.com canonical name = freecontentarticles.com.
Name: freecontentarticles.com
Address: 74.200.208.154
The “Address” is the IP address of freecontentarticles.com. Take the IP address and do another whois lookup here using the IP address. For this example we will use 74.200.208.154 which would give us:
OrgName: FastServers, Inc. OrgID: FASTS-1 Address: 175 W. Jackson Blvd Address: Suite 1770 City: Chicago StateProv: IL PostalCode: 60604 Country: US ReferralServer: rwhois://rwhois.fastservers.net:4321/ NetRange: 74.200.192.0 - 74.200.255.255 CIDR: 74.200.192.0/18 NetName: FASTSERVERS-CHI NetHandle: NET-74-200-192-0-1 Parent: NET-74-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Allocation NameServer: NS1.FASTSERVERS.NET NameServer: NS2.FASTSERVERS.NET Comment: RegDate: 2006-11-14 Updated: 2007-08-07 RAbuseHandle: ABUSE947-ARIN RAbuseName: Abuse RAbusePhone: +1-866-753-3278 RAbuseEmail: abuse at fastservers.net RNOCHandle: FASTS1-ARIN RNOCName: FastServers NOC RNOCPhone: +1-866-753-3278 RNOCEmail: noc at fastservers.net RTechHandle: FASTS-ARIN RTechName: FastServers RTechPhone: +1-866-753-3278 RTechEmail: admin at fastservers.net OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE947-ARIN OrgAbuseName: Abuse OrgAbusePhone: +1-866-753-3278 OrgAbuseEmail: abuse at fastservers.net OrgNOCHandle: FASTS1-ARIN OrgNOCName: FastServers NOC OrgNOCPhone: +1-866-753-3278 OrgNOCEmail: noc at fastservers.net OrgTechHandle: BEW4-ARIN OrgTechName: Ewing, Brandon OrgTechPhone: +1-319-277-6937 OrgTechEmail: brandon at fastservers.net OrgTechHandle: FASTS-ARIN OrgTechName: FastServers OrgTechPhone: +1-866-753-3278 OrgTechEmail: admin at fastservers.net # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2007-09-08 19:10 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
Like I said, this is only one rough way to get the web server host’s contact information to report an abuse. There are still many ways to get the information you need. It would help if you ask a network professional.
Also if you got some few tips your self please do drop a comment.
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2 Comments
1. tbonner | October 23rd, 2007 at 5:50 am
This post hit a nerve with me. I used iSnare to distribute a feature article. The results are great, and I am pleased with iSnare’s reach.
However, a couple of the directories my article was distributed to aren’t very careful about requiring the resource box. The directory itself displays the resource information, but there is nothing on the site telling others they must include it. As a result, a number of sites have reprinted my article without recognizing me or my sites.
Even worse, I have discovered many sites just scrape the content from the directory site. They do not credit me or my site in any way. At the bottom of the article they display the words “source:” and list the article directory. Thus I get no credit from the article, but the directory gets a link!
I have found many sites where the search engines indicate my content appeared, but I can find no trace of the article when I check. I assume these scrapers are using the content to get search engine ranking, then removing it in hopes they won’t be caught. The old content is replaced by new content they grab off another directory. It seems they continually rotate the content, without giving any attribution.
I question whether it is worth fighting this. By the time I find and complain about the uncredited content, they have already removed it and replaced it with articles written by someone else — which are also uncredited.
This is in no way a complaint about iSnare. The results are great and I will continue to use the service in the future.
Would it be possible to request my articles not be sent to certain directories? I have found one directory in particular, is used by numerous scrapers. The directory itself includes my resource box, but most of those using the article only credit the directory. I would like to eliminate that directory from my distribution if possible.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Tom Bonner
http://alphatracks.com
2. Glenn | October 29th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Hi Tom,
That feature would be taken seriously and hopefully rolled out in our next future release.
However, in the side and thoughts of the article directory in question. It would certainly be a bit harsh on their part if they do display the article resource box properly. They just need to do a little more of a Policy Enforcement or a Policy Visibility for publishers and a lot of monitoring.
Scrapers are everywhere even at iSnare but we do monitor regularly and I am sure the policy of the resource box be respected and reprinted well is clearly delivered to anyone reading in any iSnare article.
It would be wiser to contact the article directory first and I do personally hope they respond positively.
Just my thoughts…