Strange video site adding unwanted links.
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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.
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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
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Oh the joys of large uninformed support teams. It's almost like talking to google!
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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
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I think I will stick to Youtube and Vimeo from now on.
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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.
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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!
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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:
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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.
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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
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