The add does not appear on member sites. It's not a problem for members. The offending story only appears in the spammer's site. However, they turn off the security and submit to Google to add
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to its search index. Hence from Google's point of view TribalPages is endorsing product xyz. This not only diminishes our reputation as a Genealogy service it can also hurt us if the product xyz is fraud. Hence our goal is to prevent the spammers stories from being visible the the public and hence invisible to Google
I've spent a great deal of time over the years writing the Stories that appear on my website...they are the backbone of my site telling at length the personal stories of our ancestors with photos etc. Relatives have been so appreciative of them and I frequently send them to others. Then, suddenly to have all of them are enabled-all I get is something about scammers, Google Search, or send to 'paid websites'...whatever that means?!
I don't understand any of this. All I do understand is that all of my years of work, all of my Stories are now blocked for no fault of mine. This can't be brain surgery to correct. And if someone can 'hack' into Stories, then they can also hack into the entire TP website. Hello! To say that I'm unhappy and frustrated is an understatement!
No excuses! Fix it!