As many of you may remember, I had a lovely time a while ago with people stealing text from my website. Now, someone has upped the anty by stealing the layout and logo design of my website. How did I find out? A colleague noticed the similarities and let me know. I contacted the life coach who's logo and banner layout was extraordinarily similar …
How To Defend Yourself When Someone Plagiarizes Your Website Text
I hate when people steal text from my website and used it on their own website. Dirty rotten scoundrels! So what do you do? First, understand that most hosting companies and domain name registrars will take down a site that is fraudulent or that plagiarizes someone else's site, as long as you can show them proof. Even Google has a process to help …
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Someone Stole My Site: How To Defend Yourself When Someone Plagiarizes Your Website Text
I knew one day it would happen. Someone stole the text from my website and used it on their own website. Dirty rotten scoundrels! According to the US Copyright Office website (http://www.copyright.gov): “Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes …
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Self-Quiz: Is It Time to Re-design Your Website?
If your website is not giving you the results you want, or if your business has grown and changed over the past few years, many business owners start asking, Should I redesign my website now? Your website is the front door by which your customers enter. If it's amateurish, hard to read, difficult to navigate, or poorly designed, your customers …
Should You Write Your Own Articles?
A recent discussion on a message board got my attention. The discussion was about writing your own articles for your email newsletter or blog, versus using one of the free ones by another author which you can find on the articles banks. When I work with small business clients, whether they're marketing locally or nationally, I often encourage them …
Getting Your Website Seen on Search Engines
When people search for you on Google, does your site show up on page 1 -- or on page 20 -- of the search engine results? Since 84% of internet traffic goes through search engines, being ranked highly by search engines will send you a huge number of prospective customers. Are search engines sending you enough traffic to build your …