my sites name in somone elses meta tags legal or not?
 

i have a guy who put my sites name in his meta tags.. now when i type in "puppylister" his fucking site comes up numbers 5 on the search engines... is this legal or do i need to use a lil sql injection
thanks

Its called hijacking. Contact him and ask him to remove it, or you will contact Google and get him sandboxed.... sandboxed is blacklisted - the only thing peole like that fear

when did Google start caring about meta tags?


clubchics, unless you have your site's name as a registered trademark it isn't a question of legality. unethical yes.

exactly.

Not metatags, but hijacking. Dont know the date, but I often talk to them because my customers often have that problem

oh they do that all the time... theres even a girl in holland who uses our copyrighted slogan, she got a nice fine, still using it, maybe ill give her a call again :)

it sucks but hey...

I think you are right..

illegal? pff..how many people do you think put "sex.com" in their meta tags? LOL

Is your claim to ownership of the term in question valid? If so, according to what? Is is a trademark/slogan/etc?

You may not like it, but if you don't have legal claim to the term, you cannot even begin to defend it.

G advises webmasters filing complaints about other sites violating copyrights that if they find that the claims are unfounded, those webmasters will be billed the legal costs. They list one example where the bill was $100,000 to the complaining webmaster.

They also remind webmasters of 'fair use' aspect of copyright laws and suggest they be really sure they can prove violation before they get G involved.

It's a bummer, but that's where things are at.

-Dino

Illegal!
 

Call the meta tag police! I know a guy that got 15 years for putting too many keywords in his tags.

What's the name if HIS site? I say hijack him right back. :D

if you have it trademarked you can always go the legal route, but for what it will cost, you need to ask yourself if it is worth it.