Special Report : Websites Trying To Copy What We Do
We have been informed by our visitors that another recently launched website is trying to accuse Dogs Lanka of using/copying their articles/database information. We investigated the matter and would like to post following details.
Domain Age (source : http://www.seologs.com/dns/domain-check.html)
Results for dogslanka.com :
Domain Created on: October 01 2008
Domain age (approximately): 9 Months, 5 days. (Today is 4th July, 2009)
Results for discoverdogslanka.com :
Domain Created on: February 10 2009
Domain age (approximately): 4 Months, 23 days. (Today is 4th July, 2009)
From above information you will clearly notice that we launched our website in 2008, five months before discoverdogslanka.com. In fact, they have tried to copy what we are doing and copied our articles which were posted on this site 4-5 months before their website was launched. We ‘discovered’ dogs lanka on the net before anyone else.
Below is a line I copied from this site claiming that we have copied their articles,
“It had been noticed that some websites are now copying and using articles originally issued by Discover Dogs Lanka plus using its database as a source of information to update there own database and you.”
Let us take a closer look at their articles and so-called database. If you visit their “Articles” section, the first article you will see is “Birthing Puppies” (http://www.discoverdogslanka.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=202:birthing-puppies&catid=5:articles&Itemid=17).
We manage to find out several other websites which has published the same article long before they did. Below find the links to these websites, containing the same article. Talk about original content!
1. http://www.petstyle.com/ask-the-vet/i-have-female-shih-tzu-about-6-years-old-and-about-have-puppies-it-important-get-x-ray-b
2. http://www.justanswer.com/questions/1xjar-know-dog-pregnant
3. http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=678
4. http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_giving_birth_to_puppies.html
*there are a total of 10+ exact matches.
Now, let’s have a look at other articles in their so-called database with original content.
Article name : Temperament Testing Puppies
URL : http://www.discoverdogslanka.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=201:temperament-testing-puppies&catid=5:articles&Itemid=17
This was copied from one of the following web pages
1. http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=2141
2. http://www.riospitbull.com/dog_aggression.htm
3. http://www.standardpoodlesusa.com/temperament-test.html
Let’s move on to the next article,
Article Name : Transmissible Venereal Tumor
URL : http://www.discoverdogslanka.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=200:transmissible-venereal-tumor&catid=5:articles&Itemid=17
This was copied from one of the following web pages,
1. http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=1650&S=1&SourceID=42
2. http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_transmissible_venereal_tumor.html
We found that 90% of the content they are having are duplicate content copied from various other websites on the net and from us. It will be a waste of time to list all these. The 3 examples above will clearly show you their idea of ‘original content’.
If we want to copy content, there are loads of huge dog related websites filled with articles written by professionals. We have copied certain articles from these website and published them here giving the credit to it’s original writer and always having a link to the original source of the article. We have not, or have any need of copying content from a website which was launched few months after we launched our website and trying to copy our concept.
It will be better if this website try to do something unique and productive without wasting time accusing other people of stealing their content.
We are aware that the moment they see this report, they will try to remove or modify the pages we have listed here. We have taken “screen captures” of all these pages of discoverdogslanka.com, and if they try to do this we will post them here as proof.
Furthermore, if you have visited our website 6-7 months ago and remember our old layout, you will notice that discoverdogslanka has shamelessly copied 06 image icons from our old layout. If you are interested, I have the PDF files which I used to create these icons for our old website layout and can be emailed to you as proof.
Thank you for reading this special report. We will continue to monitor their behavior.
If you need any further information on this matter, please don’t hesitate to email us on info@dogslanka.com