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I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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post #4

Make a premium WordPress theme based on this design, slap a price on it, and distribute through WordPress theme sites thereby creating an additional income stream for your company. I'm in Miami and I'd be happy to help.

Agree, if you make a twitter bootstrap theme you'll find someone who's willing to pay for it too.

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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post #4

Make a premium WordPress theme based on this design, slap a price on it, and distribute through WordPress theme sites thereby creating an additional income stream for your company. I'm in Miami and I'd be happy to help.

I might actually do this, we were just discussing this at the office!

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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post #12

Just noticed - based on the IP lookups 3 of these websites are located in Houston. Coincidence?

Either those companies are with a bigger/popular hosting company (IIRC The Planet was located in Houston and I guess their datacenter wasn't closed down after their acquisition) or it's a link bait.

Either way - too few information to make an educated guess.

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

#55

Interesting, given the copying of the js directly, you could use that to your advantage. Have it behave one way if the page is served up from an IP address you own, and slightly differently served from a foreign address. Could be sublime, like adds a menu item/link to their pages that has "Web Design Services" that points back to you, to the silly "Get free copyrighted material here" and a link to some dubious conten…

I completely agree to this method. Break their site with your js.

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

#56
post #39

You might want to add rel="nofollow" attributes to those outgoing links. This indicates to search engines that you do not want your links to influence the other sites' rankings. Not sure if this is possible with tumblr though.

Done, thanks!

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

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post #37
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Took me a second cup of coffee to detect the sarcasm. I like you.

Sorry, I wasn't being sarcastic. The links on the top right aren't standard. The footer also has a funky styling. Check out the page to see. Just from reading my comment and not examining the styling I see how it could sound sarcastic.

There is nothing anyone is designing that is original.

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

#59
Looks to be true, but if this is a day-to-day concern for your business things must be running themselves. Consider it a badge of honor, like your application being valuable and important enough to become warez. I'm guessing your value-add proposition goes way beyond looking good on your first page. I would however take concern with those so sloppy they are using your bandwidth.

Re: I’m Tired Of Companies Ripping off our site, So I’m Calling Them Out

#60
You could easily use this to your advantage: 1. Your portfolio is now larger (my designs + people who ripped off my designs) 2. You could create a "Submit sites that ripped off our design" for your customers and create a conversation around it 3. Ask the sites to reference yours in their footer 4. Modify the ripped off source files to display modified header/footer on external sites

You should be thanking them for creating so many opportunities for you. Why not expect everything will be stolen and go from there? It's all public files in the end.

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