We all work hard to create and fine-tune our website content. And an unfortunate reality is that there are a lot of people out there who are quite happy to steal our content for their own purposes.
Take this page on our own website, actually I should rephrase that. Take a look at our Google AdWords Management page:
In particular:
And also:
Greenkoi Design seem to use a similar method to sell their own Google AdWords service:
Incredibly, almost the whole page is copied directly from our website, including a section of text whereby they link to a Google AdWords Report Service that they don’t even offer. Guess who does.
Personally I wouldn’t consider working with a company who blatantly copy other people’s content and present it as their own.
And then there’s SantaClaraSoft whose Google AdWords service also sounds a little familiar:
And SEO Friendly Web Services, whose page title speaks of “Quick Results in Google.com”, and whose content also rings a bell:
At least theirs has a little more creativity – namely a diagram of the SEO Life Cycle, right next to their Google AdWords Management Service. I suspect that diagram may be found elsewhere too.
The list goes on, and there are plenty more websites using our content.
When did it become acceptable to steal other people’s work?
