gav240z
New Member
Hi Everyone,
I am currently looking into having our competitors removed from bidding on terms that relate to my companies business.
My company runs a successful magazine that is published monthly in Ireland and has been doing so for the past 10+ years. As a result we have a well established brand name in the market and many searches are conducted monthly for the magazine online.
The magazine has an online variation for users to buy and sell products. Unfortunately many of our competitors are now bidding on our terms here is an example:
www.ourdomainname.ie
our domain name
and some are also bidding on the acronym of our name
our domain name = odn
I have used the https://services.google.com/inquiry/aw_tmcomplaint form but I am wondering if I should also send follow up letters from a solicitor with a cease and desist statement to our competitors to give them a bit of a scare and make them retract their bidding on those words or at least include negative terms.
Has anyone had much experience with this? What is the most effective solution you have found so far?
I don't feel this is Google's / Yahoo's or MSN's issue to police but hope they will see fit to disable our competitors, I see this though as the advertiser's responsiblity for his or her actions. I'm not sure how Google will react to our request to remove the competitors however I see bidding on our domain name and acronym particularly unfair from a legal perspective.
Cheers,
Gavin.
I am currently looking into having our competitors removed from bidding on terms that relate to my companies business.
My company runs a successful magazine that is published monthly in Ireland and has been doing so for the past 10+ years. As a result we have a well established brand name in the market and many searches are conducted monthly for the magazine online.
The magazine has an online variation for users to buy and sell products. Unfortunately many of our competitors are now bidding on our terms here is an example:
www.ourdomainname.ie
our domain name
and some are also bidding on the acronym of our name
our domain name = odn
I have used the https://services.google.com/inquiry/aw_tmcomplaint form but I am wondering if I should also send follow up letters from a solicitor with a cease and desist statement to our competitors to give them a bit of a scare and make them retract their bidding on those words or at least include negative terms.
Has anyone had much experience with this? What is the most effective solution you have found so far?
I don't feel this is Google's / Yahoo's or MSN's issue to police but hope they will see fit to disable our competitors, I see this though as the advertiser's responsiblity for his or her actions. I'm not sure how Google will react to our request to remove the competitors however I see bidding on our domain name and acronym particularly unfair from a legal perspective.
Cheers,
Gavin.