What a mess..

Content and html, etc.

[cicgirl]

Here's my problem. I had a person e-mail me and ask if he could put 2 of my articles on his website with credit going to me, etc..
I said sure.
I got another message by email with him thanking me.
I visit his site and notice that one article has a link to my site, but no reference to me writing it, just the name of the article. and the other, he just had copied everything and pasted it and put it on his site
on one of his pages. Now, there isn't a link, etc..
But the worst is this:
Also, something must have gotten messed up in the html that he copied from my page to paste onto his because on one place on the web where sites are rated, HIS rating is now in my place and mine has dropped considerably. Would anyone know why this has happened? I don't have a clue about it but what started out seemingly as nothing has really turned into a mess. Also, I tried to update my site and kept having trouble and freezes, unable to get in, etc..
Thanks,

[engine]

cicgirl,
Welcome to wmw.

There may be several issues here.

Firstly, the fact that you don't have the copyright acknowledgement and link eans you can take this up with the other person. They should honour the agreement.

Secondly, there is nothng they would have done to copy the information that would have affected your website, unless they have your username and password to FTP to your website.

The ratings you mentioned: I'm not sure what this is you are referring to. Certainly, he may have copied your information and inserted his own code to show different results.

Did he get hold of your password and username?

[korkus2000]

Can you put your site in your profile? I believe the freezing is not attributed to the other sites webmaster. The ratings are funny things. Who knows why they are changing. I don't think it is really anything malicious on his part towards you. Are you hosting your site on a free web server?

[paynt]

Welcome to Webmaster World cicgirl,

on one place on the web where sites are rated, HIS rating is now in my place and mine has dropped considerably

Where cicgirl?

Did this get fixed or figured out?

[erikv]

Cicgirl, I am not really very experienced yet, so this might not be very useful to you, but I wouldn't even have replied to his request. My advice would be to urge the other guy to remove all stuff that relates to your site when he doesn't live up to his promises within a week. If he fails, and you can afford it, threaten with a lawsuit. I was a lawyer in a previous life, and this always helps ;).

I had kind of a similar problem. PR chap asked me to link to his customer's site in return for a link back to mine. Said yes, put a nice link to their site as it was strongly related to my content. After 3 weeks, still no return link.
Emailed the PR chap I would remove his link. Then he came back saying my site link was now up on so-and-so page of his customer's site. Went to look there and nothing was up at all.

I will not even answer these requests anymore. What I do is I ask the companies whose stuff I write reviews about (my site is a journalistic site--being a journalist that appears to be logical) to link to my site. They usually do so within a few weeks.

But I seldom experience much traffic from these reciprocal links anyway...

My 2 cents...