http://www.eigene-homepage-erstellen.net/blog/internet-marketing/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm Internet marketing company: Portent, Seattle, WA Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:05:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.eigene-homepage-erstellen.net/blog/internet-marketing/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4259 Ian Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:40:25 +0000 http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/08/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4259 @johnny I usually start by sending them a polite e-mail asking them to take the content down. If that doesn't work, I use a WHOIS query to find out who hosts them, and who owns the domain, and contact both. If that STILL doesn't work, I send a far less polite note explaining my next steps and giving them a 24-hour deadline. @johnny I usually start by sending them a polite e-mail asking them to take the content down. If that doesn’t work, I use a WHOIS query to find out who hosts them, and who owns the domain, and contact both.
If that STILL doesn’t work, I send a far less polite note explaining my next steps and giving them a 24-hour deadline.

]]> http://www.eigene-homepage-erstellen.net/blog/internet-marketing/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4258 johnny Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:33:36 +0000 http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/08/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4258 We have these issues also. When you find someone ripping off your content word for word, what do you do? We have these issues also. When you find someone ripping off your content word for word, what do you do?

]]> http://www.eigene-homepage-erstellen.net/blog/internet-marketing/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4257 Alex Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:23:19 +0000 http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/08/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4257 Maybe you could send polite emails to his clients and educate them about the kind of "designer" they are using, and the potential risks to them if he's used his snatch-and-grab approach on their sites... Maybe you could send polite emails to his clients and educate them about the kind of “designer” they are using, and the potential risks to them if he’s used his snatch-and-grab approach on their sites…

]]> http://www.eigene-homepage-erstellen.net/blog/internet-marketing/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4256 Ian Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:31:59 +0000 http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/08/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4256 Excellent advice Big. Thanks! Excellent advice Big. Thanks!

]]> http://www.eigene-homepage-erstellen.net/blog/internet-marketing/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4255 BIG Kahuna Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:36:08 +0000 http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/08/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4255 There's a better way to do it. Go to www.copyscape.com and paste your URL in. There’s a better way to do it. Go to http://www.copyscape.com and paste your URL in.

]]> http://www.eigene-homepage-erstellen.net/blog/internet-marketing/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4254 Mark Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:50:55 +0000 http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/08/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4254 I'd be like: "What? You pooped in the refrigerator? And you copied that whole... website? How'd you do that? Heck, I'm not even mad; that's amazing." I’d be like:
“What? You pooped in the refrigerator? And you copied that whole… website? How’d you do that? Heck, I’m not even mad; that’s amazing.”

]]> http://www.eigene-homepage-erstellen.net/blog/internet-marketing/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4253 Ian Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:11:15 +0000 http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/08/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4253 @Mike Damn you, you figured out my master plan! @Mike Damn you, you figured out my master plan!

]]> http://www.eigene-homepage-erstellen.net/blog/internet-marketing/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4252 MikeTek Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:27:56 +0000 http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/08/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4252 May I ask, Ian, how it is that we are expected to believe that you did not simply rip off your design from some poor, pimple-faced Eastern European kid who only wanted to garner some freelance clients and sign up for better porn sites? I found, much to my chagrin, that nobody saw fit to copy any of my own sites. Perhaps I'm not doing a good enough job for people to steal my work. May I ask, Ian, how it is that we are expected to believe that you did not simply rip off your design from some poor, pimple-faced Eastern European kid who only wanted to garner some freelance clients and sign up for better porn sites?
I found, much to my chagrin, that nobody saw fit to copy any of my own sites. Perhaps I’m not doing a good enough job for people to steal my work.

]]> http://www.eigene-homepage-erstellen.net/blog/internet-marketing/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4251 Elliot Ross Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:26:59 +0000 http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/08/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4251 What Matt said :-) Holy Crap! We recently did the same thing and found that a proprietary site that we had written for a customer had been lifted complete (even the branding) and was being used by some web developer as a "sample customer" It was taken down without much of a battle What Matt said :-) Holy Crap!
We recently did the same thing and found that a proprietary site that we had written for a customer had been lifted complete (even the branding) and was being used by some web developer as a “sample customer”
It was taken down without much of a battle

]]> http://www.eigene-homepage-erstellen.net/blog/internet-marketing/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4250 James Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:13:27 +0000 http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/08/use_google_to_find_copycats.htm#comment-4250 Ian, like I mentioned on Twitter, it's almost a compliment...and a kick to the ...aghmmmn...groin all wrapped up in one neat little package. If you do search for Online Plagiarism Detection there are a variety of tools available for tracking if people are using your site in various ways. There may even be a unique embed available to track your site within your site code...I don't know of one off hand...that sure would be good though. Likewise using unique phrases from your site in Google alerts would be a good way to automatically monitor if people are stealing from you. (make sure to surround them in quotes too) Ian, like I mentioned on Twitter, it’s almost a compliment…and a kick to the …aghmmmn…groin all wrapped up in one neat little package.
If you do search for Online Plagiarism Detection there are a variety of tools available for tracking if people are using your site in various ways. There may even be a unique embed available to track your site within your site code…I don’t know of one off hand…that sure would be good though.
Likewise using unique phrases from your site in Google alerts would be a good way to automatically monitor if people are stealing from you. (make sure to surround them in quotes too)

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