Strange video site adding unwanted links.
-
Today I was checking our backlink profile and noticed a lot of strange back links coming from grosezinga.com apparently this site is some type of search engine for videos, and it somehow pulls videos from Youtube, and Daily Motion, and adds them to the grosezinga search engine.
I have never placed a link on this site, I do not want a link there, and I never even knew it existed until today. We do have video tutorials on the web, and somehow this site has pulled them from our video page without our permission, and added them to this site.
Anyone ever had this problem, should I ask for them to be removed? When I do a Google video search my url is showing up on about a hundred different videos that are not ours. I don't want to be accused of building unnatural links.
-
Hey Tina,
I actually wouldn't worry too much about this, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the site isn't actually linking to you from the video pages with an
-
Oh the joys of large uninformed support teams. It's almost like talking to google!
-
To top it off they just sent me this "
Hi,
In order to handle your request, could you please send us the precise url of the video on Dailymotion ?
Regards,
Dailymotion Team.
My reply "
Hi I contacted you guys this morning, I own and produced the video in question.
What I explained this morning is that somehow this website
http://www.grosezinga.com/624073b/769f1f194bf0598deb7465ea0.htmlwas taking my videos from your website and posting it on there website. I
own the videos in question. I made them, I did not want the video removed from your site just the
feed stopped from the offending site however, you guys got my email confused, and thought I was reporting my own videos as being not mine.Then I receive an email from you guys stating that my account was terminated due to a complaint. I have not broken any rules I produced the content in question, and I filed the complaint, but not against myself.
You suspended the wrong account I am the one who filed the complaint, and contacted you in the first place.So I can't send you a link to my videos because my account is now suspended. Please unsuspend my account.
Thank you
-
I think I will stick to Youtube and Vimeo from now on.
-
That probably shows how many complaints they get for copyright issues if they just take down accounts without even reading the complaint properly. How stupid of them.
-
So I get a reply from Daily Motion the site I added the videos to it states:
Some or all of the elements composing your video, "Add this social buttons for zencart," have been flagged as infringing upon the intellectual property rights of a third party (e.g. author, producer, artist, etc.). It has been removed at the request of one or more of the rights holders.
I WAS THE ONE THAT CONTACTED THEM LOL!
I guess they thought I was reporting my own videos??
I sent this back to them : Ok I believe there is some confusion here I contacted you this morning, I own and produced the video in question.
What I explained this morning is that somehow this website http://www.grosezinga.com/624073b/769f1f194bf0598deb7465ea0.html was taking my videos from your website and posting it on their website.I own the videos I did not want the video removed from your site just the feed stopped from the offending site. I just received another email stating my account was terminated for violating the rules!This is hilarious!
-
If they don't then look at filing a DMCA request with Google. They are a bit of a pain, but rather effective. Details of that here:
-
Well I have sent them, and Godaddy a take down notice, and contacted the video site in which they got the information from lets hope I hear something in return.
-
Hi Tina,
It doesn't look like this site is actually linking to you, but using your URL as a profile name (no link). Slightly better, but still annoying.
If you look at the cache of this page here it shows why it thinks you URL is on that page: - look under suggestions. If you can't immediately see it then ctrl+f then search for your domain name.
By the looks of it you are going to need to get them to remove that. Presumably they are also using your material without permissions. Accord to this page; http://www.grosezinga.com/dmca-policy/ they will take down content once you notify them, but it is really out of order that they work on a "steal first, remove if asked later" basis.
Hope that helps a bit.
Mat
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
My site got hacked and now i have 1000s of 404 pages and backlinks. Should i transfer my site to a new domain name and start again?
My site was hacked and I had 1000s of pages that should not exist created and has had 1000s of backlinks put in. Now i have the same pages and backlinks redirecting to 404 pages. Is this why my site crashed out of google and my SEO fixes since have made no progress to my problem?
Industry News | | KeithWarbyUK0 -
Article marketing sites
Hi, I'm looking for article marketing sites in English. I have searched and analyzed over 50 sites but I have not find any with the specifics I'm searching to: high/average DA, dofollow, and the possibility to have an anchored text, any suggestions? Thanks!
Industry News | | eriksatie0 -
Are there any noob sites that might enlighten me to how everyone earns income here?
I know...very odd beginner question so let me elaborate. I have always worked in the corporate grind. I quit and opened up a couple of small (fairly unsuccessful) businesses since 2007. I enjoyed the SEO parts of building the business but just couldn't get them to stick. (local service businesses) I have fallen into some lead gen business with my old customers and I am trying to build that now. How are the majority of the SEO people earning income here? Are most selling their SEO services to other small businesses? Are most earning ad type income here? (how does that work?) I am quickly being forced back into the corporate grind again and would really prefer to learn and taylor my SEO efforts into staying self employed if possible. Would anyone be able to direct me to sites that might explain how entrepreneurs are earning income around here? A little 'Career Counseling' of sorts? (haha) I sincerely would appreciate some enlightenment. 🙂
Industry News | | MontyTheLab2 -
Subdomain initials vs full city name(s) for a multi city subdomain site?
Helping with a multi-city non-profit magazine/news blog. Subdomain options; sf.domain.com, ny.domain.com, la.domain.com sanfrancisco.domain.com, newyork.domain.com, ... Some cities added, will as an example seol.domain.com a city that doesnt have a recognizable initlals, like NYC for example. For brand, recognition, seo benefit, what have you used and why? Thanks
Industry News | | vmialik0 -
How to remove the inbound links of a website from Google Webmaster Tools?
Hello viewers, One of my projects (BannerBuzz.com) is having linked with this Site: http://www.article-niche.com/ and we can see so many inbound links in our Webmaster account from this site, we have already disavowed this site but still it is found in our Webmaster Tools and we don’t have option to mail them as the site is down, so kindly anyone help us out how to remove this back-links and I want to remove it from my Webmaster account as well as from “Search Results” as the site is down. Currently as this site is show down from long time and because of its back-links, our website (BannerBuzz.com) has been penalized by Google.
Industry News | | CommercePundit0 -
Google to Target Overly SEOd Sites
I just watched the video from Barry Schwartz talking about the new Update to come with the Google Algo. Video of his Friday Post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJqSPT2NXdA I have also started reading on Webmasterworld on this topic: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4429947.htm What do you think Google has in the list of changes?
Industry News | | Ben-HPB0 -
Is a canonical to itself a link juice leak
Duane Forrester from Bing said that you should not have a canonical pointing back to the same page as it confuses Bingbot,
Industry News | | AlanMosley
“A lot of websites have rel=canonicals in place as placeholders within their page code. Its best to leave them blank rather than point them at themselves. Pointing a rel=canonical at the page it is installed in essentially tells us “this page is a copy of itself. Please pass any value from itself to itself.” No need for that.” He also stated that a canonical is much like a 301 except that it does not physically move the user to the canonical page. This leads me to think that having such a tag may leak link juice. “Please pass any value from itself to itself”
Google has stated that GoogleBot can handle such a tag, but this still does not mean that it is not leaking link juice.0 -
How do you value a site that generates no income before it's sold?
Hi, I'm currently creating a number of sites which target the wedding market. Each site is localized and specific to a niche within the wedding market. The intention is to create the site, rank it in the top position of Google and then sell it to a local business within that niche and area. The problem that i am having is that I don't know how to place a value on each site. I have factors taken from Google (using Market Samurai) so I know the broad and phrase match traffic details as well as the Google PPC average prices. My initial thought was to use the Google PPC price and multiply that by the number of organic visitors the site would receive if it was ranked #1 on Google. I appreciate that the PPC figures may be higher than what an advertiser would actually pay per click so I conservatively halved the Google PPC figure given in Market Samurai. Is this a good way of valuing the site or do I need to look at the value per customer to the business that I am trying to sell the site to and work from a conversion factor based on the number of visitors that the site would receive. If the site received 500 visitors per month and 5% of those became customers multiplied by the average profit per customer - that would give a monthly value of the website. I am very unsure as to what the best approach is here and look forward to hearing any advice and ideas from fellow members. Thanks, Michael
Industry News | | XSMedia0