Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus) on March 15, 2013, 09:43:58 pm
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I'm not going to name the company on here, however if you are based in Walsall and have had a new site built recently, then you need to contact me at your earliest opportunity.
You have copied and pasted large chunks, even pages, of my website. A site that I spent hundreds of hours writing unique content for - only for you to press a button on your computer and plagiarize it !!
Do the decent thing and make contact with me, or simply remove the offending text - which will be most of your site.
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Just to say we are Walsall based and it's not us :o
Our website is 100% original, not one to boast but last time I looked we we're on page 123456789 of Google, is that good?
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Why didnt you just send them an email or ring them up direct?
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I will be, don't worry about that - or do you think I should be considering their feelings ?
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I will be, don't worry about that - or do you think I should be considering their feelings ?
To be fair, they may be an innocent Party. They may have paid someone in good faith, who has then just copied your stuff and told them a pack of lies.
I'd be interested in the outcome, no names needed, just whether a local (Walsall) web designer is up to no good.
If possible, post an update after speaking to them.
Cheers
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Same content as this site http://chemdrycleaningsc.info/
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Is this your site too?
http://www.1stcarpetcare.co.uk/index.html
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Nope
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What really pees me off, is that I spent thousands having that site built and nearly six months writing the content - a couple of hours each night.
Then someone comes along and copies/pastes it and hasn't even got the sense to remove the name of the area I work in.
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I will be, don't worry about that - or do you think I should be considering their feelings ?
To be fair, they may be an innocent Party. They may have paid someone in good faith, who has then just copied your stuff and told them a pack of lies.
I'd be interested in the outcome, no names needed, just whether a local (Walsall) web designer is up to no good.
If possible, post an update after speaking to them.
Cheers
I agree Ian, it could well be the web designer at fault - either way I will get to the bottom of it
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On this site http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/
It shows their content was added one day before yours. ::)roll
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Really Mark ?!!
Well that's amazing, considering I wrote every friggin word of it myself
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Look cut & paste from google
Professional Carpet Cleaning Services Surrey
www.carpetcareplus.co.uk/residential/professional-carpet-cleaning
15 Dec 2011 - We also offer a Low Moisture Carpet Cleaning Service for carpets that can't be wet cleaned due to type, construction or location. We have invested heavily over ...
Services - 1st Carpet and Upholstery Care
www.1stcarpetcare.co.uk/services.html
14 Dec 2011 - We also offer a Low Moisture Carpet Cleaning Service for carpets that can't be wet cleaned due to type, construction or location. We have invested heavily over ...
Also Vicki from TopMark this evening... ;)
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I don't give a monkeys what that report says, I wrote my site and they have plagiarized it
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It was designed by this company http://www.azsolution.co.uk
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Yes I saw that link I will be contacting them also
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Easy £300 to £500 for them!
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They are breaching the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
I'd give them 7 days to remove the content.
If they don't respond, just send a request to google and they will remove the site from search results. They will also know when the content was added.
Select ''web search'' and continue
http://support.google.com/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1114905&page=ts.cs
http://www.google.co.uk/dmca.html
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It was designed by this company http://www.azsolution.co.uk
I see this Company are registered at a small terrace house. I know the area well ::)roll. My guess would be a young student type making a few bob on the side. There's a chance that there isn't even a Carpet Cleaner involved, might be setting up to sell on.
Definitely interesting how this pans out, including the support you get from Google. Raises the question of who really Polices such things and how effective are they for SME's.
Here you go, nothing that isn't visible via YELL: -
A Z Solution, 4 King St, Walsall, West Midlands, WS1 4AF
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=azsolution&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
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or is it 115, Wednesbury Road, Walsall with the same phone no? ::)roll
http://one2onehometeaching.co.uk/contactus.html
http://akoyatech.co.uk/about-us.html
Any web designer with half a brain should know not to scrape content from another site.
Quite possibly the carpet cleaner has seen the the link on here and thought, that looks good, we'll have some of that.
Then there is the problem that the googles algo may not be able to make ups it's mind which is the original content and penalise either one site or another for duplicate spam. Google are certainly tightening up on this.
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Steve, looking on the bright side, they scoured the Internet for the best copy and chose yours. ;)
Send the website owners a bill. Then they have to go after their web designer. Who knows you might get a few bob out of it.
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^^ there's more chance of god's second coming to this earth than that happening.
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Web designer or someone being lazy, adds up to the same thing, damage to Steve's business that he had clearly made a lot of effort into being unique for SEO.
Hope it is sorted and they do the decent thing.
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The ridiculous thing is - they haven't even deleted the word "Surrey" from the copied text, even though they are based in Walsall.
So to any doubters that's one of the reasons I can prove they copied me rather than the other way around.
I mean FFS, some of the text is from a presentation I gave to a networking meeting 18 months ago !
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Send the website owners a bill. Then they have to go after their web designer. Who knows you might get a few bob out of it.
Steve, I sent you a PM on CT about this.
Garry
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Grab screen shots Steve.
They may here about this and start changing it slightly
Rob ;D
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Don't think I'd pick a fight with Steve..............always smiling but he's a big lad and a little upset right now ( for good reason )
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He is bound to be pis sed off as i know he spent a lot and i mean a lot of time and money getting this site done.
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I mean FFS, some of the text is from a presentation I gave to a networking meeting 18 months ago !
That would be before the domain was registerd then? ;)
http://www.nominet.org.uk/whois/lookup?query=http%3A//www.1stcarpetcare.co.uk
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As always, someone says I'm not going to name and shame them on here and then......
Poor old Mohammad might not even have a clue about this.
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Ask Higgins to send an e-mail demanding the text be changed. Or nip round there in the 308 GTS and sort them out!
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Ask Higgins to send an e-mail demanding the text be changed. Or nip round there in the 308 GTS and sort them out!
;D
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The address in King Street Walsall is a 3 minute drive from my home :)
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Go onto www.copyscape.com type in your web site and it shows you who has been using your site contents. Its quite interesting.