Stealing Content - don’t be an idiot!

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The web hosting thread below was started by handsonhosting on 2009-02-19 08:28:17:

Over the years we have written many detailed articles in our knowledgebase for our customers to learn from and receive speedy answers. We’ve spend HUNDREDS of hours writing content and have thousands of articles. It helps us help our customers faster. No problem there.

What bothers me is people stealing our content. If the article is of use to you, by all means, take a clue from our articles and re-write a similar article for your web hosting business. If you copy content DIRECT word for word, you hurt yourself for SEO rankings (something we all strive for).

Now, lets say you do decided to lift all our content - don’t be such an idiot that you don’t remove our COMPANY NAME from the articles!!! When an article has "Here at Hands-on Web Hosting, you can click the cPanel link" - doesn’t it just make sense to REMOVE that line? Some people have decided to lift our articles directly and choose not to remove our name.

I’ve contacted the hosting companies in question and they haven’t even responded to the emails I’ve sent. So I’ve contacted Google to sandbox the sites DMCA at it’s best!

Feel free NOT to host with hosting companies that are too lazy to write their own articles and STEAL content from other sites;

http://www.diginetmagic.com/support-…mod_id=2&id=11

https://www.hourhost.com/whmcs/knowl…yarticle&id=53

A little common sense when STEALING content from somewhere else and removing our company name should at least be a small effort these "hosting companies" should make!

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