[telfordwindowclnr]

Hi guys. I know some of you will find this useful.

We own a number of websites and periodically our webmasters run checks to see if anyone is copy and pasting our copyrighted content onto their website. In 10 years of owning websites, this has happened 9 times, but had 4 all in one go recently. Copied content is not Google-friendly and damages everyones Google ranking. That's why we pursue it vociferously.

Each time this happens, I contact the company and politely request that the info be removed, due to their copyright infringement. The vast majority of people respond swiftly and remove the content. One guy refused, but we followed the correct procedures and within a few weeks his whole website was removed from the Internet.

If you create and maintain your own website, please resist the temptation to copy and paste, (steal, in other words) content from websites that rank well on Google. It is copyright infringement.

Some employ web design companies to write their content. Even some of these copy and paste, knowing it is wrong, but it is a very fast way of them making your website. You are paying them good money, so deserve to have original content written.

I'd be interested to hear if this has happened to anyone else.

More info regarding Internet copyright law can be found here:
http://www.ihaveawebsite-nowwhat.co.uk/copyright/

[C Phillips]

Very usefull thanks Steve, I do have a problem at the moment with another company that have exactly copied my company name and logo from my web site.

Chris 

[telfordwindowclnr]

Very usefull thanks Steve, I do have a problem at the moment with another company that have exactly copied my company name and logo from my web site.

Chris 

Its a sickener isnt it? What have you done so far?

[Matt Gibson]

Steve,

How do your web guys check for copyrighted content?

[telfordwindowclnr]

Steve,

How do your web guys check for copyrighted content?

Not sure exactly,  :-\but it works! I know that you can take a random sentence from your website, copy and paste it into google and press enter. Your website should be the only one with that sentence because the content is unique. Below yours may be other sites who have copy and pasted. If that's the case and you can prove you wrote the content, you should politely ask them to remove their content.

[rg1]

Steve,

How do your web guys check for copyrighted content?

Here: http://www.copyscape.com  

[EandM]

Interesting Post

[Matt Gibson]

Wow, two hits from my home page text alone..

K & S Window cleaning services.. nice one..  

And a pressure washing company local to me..

What gets me is, how hard is it to write up your own text? i mean just sit and think, you know your services better than anyone, why steal someone else's text?

[8weekly]

A patronising warning dressed up as information.