Here's one that I had discovered had happened only last night - although it's not the first time it's happened.
Similar to stealing images from other websites is stealing text from sites. The problem is with this one, you only discover it when the customer complains they aren't listed at the top of Google.
Now why would that be? Well it's because copied text is duplicate content, which search engines will typically ignore.
The site in question is only a 1 page site. Would it really have been that hard to generate text of their own? Maybe, it's a problem that customers don't realise exists, but does that mean we are supposed to check every block of text against being duplicated elsewhere? Should we as webdesigners have a list of do's & don'ts that we give to every customer? Seems like telling some customers their own business at times. Not really what we want to be doing, but how can we get the message across?
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