As you may remember, I recently wrote a post about Tynt, a company whose software allows you to learn what is being copied from your website and leverage those copies into more traffic.
I’m sure it works great for some folks. But, I may have to give it up to save myself from a heart attack.
Actually, this is only a Whimsical Wednesday post because it is slightly unrelated to real estate marketing, and because I’m taking this opportunity to vent. Internet theft is a pretty serious subject as far as I’m concerned.
I’ve been getting the Tynt reports on our main site, BuildRealEstateResults.com. During the month of May, there have been 53 copies made from the site, 43 new links created, and zero people who landed on my site from those copies.
So, just for fun, I checked the page that had the most copies made, the home page of the site, on Copyscape. I don’t have a premium Copyscape account, so I only got the first few results. And, what I found is shown below.
There are two plagiarists: the first company that stole Internet content, and the second company that stole Internet content. As you can see, Goldstar put the content on their services page, and the stolen content comprises 21% of the text on the page. Spacecoast Marketing populated 16% of their home page with my copy.
Great! So, GoldStar and Spacecoast, if you’re listening, I’d sure appreciate it if you’d hire me to write your copy rather than steal it. And, if you’d be so kind, I’d appreciate it if you removed the copy from your pages. You’re both overseas, and my content was way ahead of you in being cached with the search engines. That is the only reason why I’m not following my own advice in terms of dealing with Internet plagarism.
C’MON GUYS. YOU’VE GOT TO HAVE SOME COPYWRITERS OVER THERE!
