Previously when we found that people copied the text on some of our websites we sent out a similar email to the one below, but now we are happy for competitors to copy our text as we know that they can never rank higher than us by using our text and, as in the case below, where our links were copied also; this is actually a positive SEO benefit to us.
Our Message to another Essex Website Design Company when they copied our text:
It has been brought to our attention that you have copied a page from our website, very unprofessionally may I add. Please remove immediately. Please also note that you are no longer welcome in to our offices to ‘copy’ anything else you had in mind. I mistakenly welcomed you and thought you was genuine, clearly not. Here are the links, but I’m sure you know them already. Please refrain from replying with a poor excuse we’re not interested we just don’t appreciate copycat marketing.
Reply from Essex Website Design Company
Thank you for your e-mail below, I have looked at the links that you have pasted below, and you are 100% correct that this is your work, if you are interested in knowing how they came to be there I am more than happy to tell you the honest truth, because:
- I have NEVER plagiarised anyone’s work
- If I did I certainly would done it better than the applying quality pop-up which you have pointed out
- I do NOT offer to beat anyone’s price I have never and never will play the “my Website Design and SEO is cheaper than yours game” the information in the pop-up boxes is simply NOT true as I DO NOT OFFER THAT !!!!
What I am assuming has happened again is that my SEO / webmaster has once again been overzealous and has added this to my website without me asking him to or waiting for my approval to make such a change. I have just found out from another source that he has done several other things to my website in the past couple of weeks which are actually against Google Webmaster / W3C standards so I am having to explain a similar story to Google and explain to him once again never to change code or text to my any of my websites without my permission.
As I said I simply do not make the same offer that you are offering, and if I did copy it, I would have done so, so that it at least matched my website design, this as you pointed out, is an appalling copy and I simply would never have allowed work that bad on any of my websites.
Regarding your Essex Website Design Offices restriction of visiting rights, that is obviously your choice and we are more than happy to accede to your wishes, but I can assure you we are very genuine and honest people. Neither my fiancée nor myself had ever gone into your premises with the idea of “copying” any of your work or ideas.
I can certainly understand your anger, but I can only say that this is the first I have ever seen of these links and on top of that, as I have repeatedly pointed out, you are talking about an offer which I do not offer, and I do not copy anyone’s work or marketing although I have gotten used to it myself over the years as people constantly copy my text from my websites.
Once again I apologise for this occurrence, as soon as my webmaster is back from Holiday I will get these pop-up boxes removed immediately and will e-mail you as soon the pop-up boxes have been removed.
We have never been “ungenuine” in any of our dealings with you at all and we were actually enjoying getting to know you. I hope once you anger has died down, that when we meet again, as we bound to within the Essex Website Design community, that we will at least be able to talk sociably.
