What Should You Do If Your Articles Are Modified?
I ran across a spammer who had taken an article I wrote and published it to a blog. They used my author resource box and that’s OK, but they also inserted nonrelevant sentences with nonrelevant links in the middle of my paragraphs in the article. So I had an article on pay-per-click advertising that had links in it related to truck tires and other non-PPC-related content. The pages those linked to contained AdSense ads. I reported the sites to Google AdSense.
If this happens to you, fill out a spam report with the search engines and also fill out a Google AdSense report for the site in violation of Google AdSense terms. The AdSense account holder will likely have their account suspended and they will not be able to get another one.
To fill out a Google spam report, go to Webmaster Tools and log into your account. You should see a list of your sites with sitemaps. On that page is a link for reporting search engine spam.
To report an AdSense violation, use the AdSense report form.
Each search engine and pay-per-click advertising company has their own report form. Log into your account and look for that feature to make your report. It is a little time consuming, but if no one reports these people using your content (and mine) in ways that are not acceptable then nothing will ever be done to stop them.
This is terrifc info as we’ve had oddles of spammers on our blog trying to catch a ride with our site. It is really time-consuming. We could turn off comments but we like when we get genuine and topic-related comments. So far (touch wood) we have not had this article hi-jack happen… that we know about.
Thanks as always for your excellent advice.