Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Copyright Material

There are so many things out there on the web, that it is really tempting to just copy it and make it your own.

If you are tempted to do this, let me give you some advice: Don't copy it until you have the owners permission. This not only makes you look bad, but it makes the company you work for look bad too. It's basically stealing. If you wouldn't go into a store and hide something under your coat, then you shouldn't be thinking about copying something from someone else, without their permission, and putting it on your web site or your blog.

It's not right to do this.

Doing things the honest way is better than stealing. The same goes for "black hat" tricks to get your website into the search engine placements higher. The search engines will figure it out sooner or later.

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