Don't get mad - get even.

[MazY]

As those who know me will know, I have had one competitor in particular who has made a habit of extracting sentences from my page, changed the odd word or two (just enough to make it hard to claim copyright infringement), copied all the key-phrases, page titles and descriptions in the same manner.

To say it has been frustrating me is an understatement. So, two to three months ago, I decided to play along.

Using the estimated dates of Google's spider coming along, I modified my pages at what must have, to the competitor, seemed like random days. All the time, encouraging him to crank his keyword density up each time. Of course, I too ran the risk of getting kicked very hard by Google too. (And did on a couple of occasions.)

I thought the results would not show until next month. Thanks to the new Google index, I can sit back and laugh.

His previous position of #3 has now been dropped to #60. My previous position of 21 has now been promoted to #18. Let that be a lesson - copy at your own risk! There are always people like me who will, on the face of it, play along in their own little way, all the while just forcing you into major flaws... :D

It's my best key-phrase too. I love it when a plan comes together...

[highman]

lol.... love it

[ihelpyou]

That is great Maz! Maybe they will leave you alone now. :up:

[Blue]

:up: :up: :up: for Maz.

[newriver]

Last month I found a website that simply copied verbatim 13 pages of my site on disability insurance to use for their site.

My first step was to contact a copyright attorney. While he was drafting a ceise (sp?) and desist letter, I was preparing letters to Yahoo and Looksmart showing them the infringement.

The good news is looksmart yanked them, the bad news is that they got the letter from my attorney before Yahoo read my email. So they changed everything on their site, and are still in Yahoo as the #2 result (behind me :)), and it cost me $1,500 to the attorney.

[ihelpyou]

geez, the only comfort would be that they are behind you. Very good thing!

[Cavetoad]

Nice Job Mazy on working the Google Crawl on them!
That rocks I am totally impressed with the trick.
Just using the engines against them, brilliant!
They'll never catch on either I think, folks that are going to such great lengths to 'adopt' content from other sites aren't the type to follow search engine algos and spidering habits.

[MazY]

I think it was more a case of using his own stupidity and ignorance against him. With a little help from the Google crawl dates. :)

[JuniorHarris]

Great job Maz!~ Always great to see the "good" guy win for a change!~ You used the one tool spammers never use -- Your Noggin!~ ;)


Welcome Cavetoad!~ :hi:
(didn't notice you hop in)