In case you are tempted to fake or manipulate, perhaps by stealing some dressy content and well-written words from a seemingly non-competitive website, you may wish to return to earth (before you are brought crashing down) by this rather effective warning by Vancouver-based Warline Painting Ltd.: “Fighting Back Against Bad Painters Who Steal”
Developing a good website is not easy. Writing good copy is tough work. It takes time and talent. I spend a lot of money to professionally photograph our work. That’s why our photos look so good. I work very hard and invest a lot of time, effort and money to make our website as good as it is.News flash. I am not doing it to make life easier for the hack painters out there. I am not writing quality?content for someone else to re-massage as their own. I am not for sale and my content is not free for the taking because someone likes it.So I am fighting back.Much like I am?calling out bad paint jobs and bad practices when I see them, I am calling out the painters that steal my writing and photos from my website.If you steal my photos; if you copy my text and only replace my name for yours; if you use my website as a template for yours and don’t bother to create your own, I will come after you.I will?shame you on Facebook. I will tweet to the world that you stole my stuff. I will ask your customers the question “If they would steal photos and content from a website, what would they be willing to steal from your home?”
Dumb mistake. Create your own work — and take responsibility and care, if you subcontract your work, to verify that things are right. ?(One simple test is to grab a phrase of 10 or 11 words and see if it shows up elsewhere on a Google search. ?You can even extend this power to the actual image — just copy it and drop it in the image search box and see if something else appears.)
Don’t cheat. You will get caught.
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