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Keyword "theft" is pretty run of the mill.

I wonder if a series of keywords on a site in the code could actually be copyrighted just as code or text can. If so some lawyer could have a field day because someone's taken part of your original code.....

Ive had whole passages of text copied (which screws up bith the original and the thief as far as SEO is concerned as it creates duplicate content), whole sales phrases, slogans, layout, code etc.

Its just taken me five weeks to get a very large "competitor" to remove the images they stole from my site. It wasn't even a very good photo.

If its any consolation keyword stealing seems to be par for the course in the UK.

Interesting utility! Think I'll have a play with it.

To be fair, it can be interesting to see what keywords your competitors are finding useful, and I suppose once its "published" on the web, your site is an "open book".

I know that people steal all sorts from my site because we always rank in the first three on google page one for our target words.

But we seem to get as many sales if we are in the top half of the page (top five).
 
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Actually I wasn't mad in the least!

I got a new customer today who Googled "frame shop" in my area and came right over. It definitely helps to be in the top results of the search.
 
Paul dearest - i was just perusing your fine website when I noticed a mis-spelled word - in your Gallery you uesed the word "guilded" when you meant to write "gilded." Common error.

Carry on.

PS - Could someone offer a brief tutorial (for dummies like me!) on what Keywords are and how to find/insert them???
 
Our former site was stolen (cut and pasted) at least a half dozen times, that I noticed. In all but one case, I emailed them politely about it - and they apologized and then fixed it. About half of them were in the USA, the others in Australia and Germany. Most of them took the whole thing, including links, text with our shop's name, and the pictures were still pointing to/hosted on our server :) One guy even took our coupons! :)

We recently changed the site to something entirely different, because duplicate content will cause the material to be ignored by the search engine gods. By having two nearly identical pages, both sites can suffer in the rankings dept.

Meta Keywords are an an invisible list of keywords (usually less than 10) that are coded into your website. The search engines see them, but visitors do not. In the earlier days of search engines, these had a lot to do with ranking. They have been so badly abused, that it gets a bit more complicated now. They don't have the impact they once did, but are still part of the overall picture. Search engines have adopted logical formulas to determine natural positioning, and they look at a number of factors.

Meta Keywords alone have VERY little bearing on results. (much less than they used to). What matters is how those keywords compliment the text on the site, the title tag, the alt image tags, the url, etc. They should all work in unison, and there are tools out there to analyze this. ie: The keywords should accurately reflect the content of the page they are assigned to, and should be unique for each page on your site.

These are just my own opinions, based on personal experience. If you ask 10 people about SEO, you'll probably get 8 different conflicting answers :)

There is some good info about this topic in the "Experiment" thread.

Mike
 
Dearest Paul - You might wish to check on the spelling of Nova Scotia as well - seems to me I saw an extra letter in there somewheres in your link list.....

;)
 
I followed the link, put in some keywords, and found one of my images on an arts and crafts site. I don't think I want to go further. :faintthud:
 
Mike, I am admittedly ignorant about web work. When I signed up for the StumbleUpon site, I included website creation as one of my interests. There are tons of sites that deal in all that "stuff" you are so good at.
 
Mike,

How's a site written in PERL or PHP get ripped with that keyword spy thingy. Or are they harder to grab.

framer
 
They can just as easily get what they want, but it really wont help them.
You should see what I did to the people who ripped info from our site, but refused to take it down :) rofl I replaced the images with something less than flattering :)

Mike
 
Framar said:
Paul dearest - i was just perusing your fine website when I noticed a mis-spelled word - in your Gallery you uesed [sic] :) the word "guilded" when you meant to write "gilded." Common error.

PS - Could someone offer a brief tutorial (for dummies like me!) on what Keywords are and how to find/insert them???
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check out http://webdesign.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.submitcorner.com/Guide/Meta/ for a primer on metatags.

Under the glitz and glamor of your web page, there is HTML code that actually does the work. Part of the <head> sections are “tags” that keep you page up and running and found by search engines. Mine is basically:

<title>The Framer's Loft - Custom Picture Framing &amp; Photo Restoration</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="Framers Loft, picture framing, photo restoration, Hudson NH, Litchfield NH, Framer's Loft, Londonderry NH, Nashua NH, Framers' Loft, Windham NH, Frame Loft, canvas transfer, Derry NH, NH, New Hampshire, custom picture framing, CPF, certified picture framer, needle stretch, shrink wrap, shrinkwrap, needlepoint stretching, stretch cross stitch, mounting, plaques, shrink wrapping, stretch cross-stitch, picture frames, laminated plaques, mats, stretching crewel, crewell, cruel, laminated placques, custom picture frames, ready-made frames, glazing, matting, mat, mats, matte, mattes, ready made frames, needlepoint blocking, stretch canvas">

<meta name="description" content="The Framer’s Loft has been the leader in quality picture framing in southern New Hampshire since 1985. Employing the first Certified Picture Framer in the state, all custom framing is done in-house.">
<meta name="author" content="Bill Henry">
<meta name="date" content="2002-06-01">
<meta name="robots" content="FOLLOW,INDEX">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="14 days">
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright © 2002 - Imagenation Picture Framing, Inc.">

Blah, blah, blah …

While having misspelling in the body of your web pages is, to my mind, nearly inexcusable (sorry, Paul :o ), having commonly misspelled words in your tags, I think, a good idea. If people are searching for (as in the above example) for crewel, you want them to find you even if they cain’t spel gud.
 
How's about "We frame pitchers."

Ooh ooh! Just got an idea - we could all make nice shadowbox displays (or one of us could and share the photo) of a collection of pretty little porcelain pitchers. Then if somebody was out searching for pitchers or pictures they would find us.

LOL - just gave myself an idea - I have this cute teensy pitcher that came from my mom's collection of bric-a-brac. Not my style but it sure would make a purty picture!!!
 
The only thing I'd like to add to Bill Henry's suggestion is that the meta keywords should also be found in the content for that same page. To be taken seriously, it should be in multiple places. (headers and/or body, title tag, description, etc)

Many experts suggest having fewer than a dozen keywords in the list.

Meta tags have very little strength, as they did years ago, but are still important in the big picture.

The meta tags (and title) should also be unique for EACH page on your site, and accurately reflect the words and goals for each page.

Mike
 
we have a lot of pages on our site.
Out of the pages which happen to come up top of google and happen to be the main landing pages for specific products, the highest hit landing page has NO meta keywords or tags, only a meta title.

meta keywords clearly aren't worth what they once were!

I think the whole area of seo is a minefield if you are not careful, once you have a sucessful (from a rankings/serps point of view) page, it seems to sit there at the top for years until someone starts copying it :icon9:
 
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