Metatag rip offs

Doing my usual placement checking and google checking today, I notice a website come up in the results witha  familiar title.

A little bit more check and I notice that I have a competitor to www.justsalou.co.uk.

Intrigued and after a little digging find my new competitor has decided not only to copy my page description word for word, but also my keywords word for word and in the exact same order.

Time will tell where the copying will end, as this new site has little content at present. I am not even sure it is a problem as such, how does Google fair with this, will it be frowned upon and Justsalou dropped from its clutches due to duplicate content, or will it go unoticed.

Only once before have I noticed any infringement from another website when an image was being lifted and used on another site, that time actually resulted in quite a few visitors gained from the other site after I splashed the JustSalou url across the image, which was then subsequently displayed on their site.

My first competition on justsalou

This week I decided to try a first for me and run an online competition and something to get my teeth stuck into, deciding upon a photo competition on my justsalou website

My first email off to scrounge some prizes resulted in one merchant coming back to me within a few minutes and some giveaway goodies arriving at my door the next day. (thanks to Peter at AttractionTix).

With a couple of days off from my full time job, was an ideal time to start putting the pages together. http://www.justsalou.co.uk/salou_photo_competition.asp Currently writing the comps terms and conditions trying to make it more fun rather than a megger serious competition.

I intend to launch the competition on 1st March, how it will go, I have no idea, never tried this before although seems to work well on other sites. I also think it may give some good content as the entries come in and who knows may get people to stay on the site a little longer.