What if?

[temi]

say a guy nick my website, layout design etc, funny enough I was not angry with him, I feel flattered, how would you fell if you design style is copied?

[Lanre]

I don't think there is a totally unique site on the web so to get an idea or inspiration from your site might be flattering to to copy and host it out right in my own name is cannot be flattering.
I don't think I will really find it funny as this is the epitome of laziness.
I don't think it should be encouraged.

[Paul_KY]

It's called copyright infringement. First shoot off a nice e-mail, informing him/her of the offense. If you receive no response, contact their host and they'll be shut down in no time. Also, contact their advertisers, if they have any.

[Duke]

I'd also fire off an e-mail saying he is stealing your design and using it illegally. Personally I would have no problem with sharing my design, so long as I got complete credit for it at the footer of each page copied with a direct link back to my site.

Good for advertising IMO.

[temi]

To be quite honest I really don't mind and to be frank I have "borrowed" ideas and designs from other people when I was starting in this game.

I just feel like correcting him with the codes he got wrong but I don't have the time

[Lanre]

Temi,
I wonder how on earth with your schedule you are able to fish out an idea pirate?
But it is nice of you to give the guy a break he may not be so lucky next time though,

[temi]

Well Lanre,
That is where the new MSN search comes in, like I said I type the name of one of my sites and it brings up pages and pages of sites with that keyword.

[OldWelshGuy]

I would recommend that anyone with a high ranking site checks for duplicate copy. remember that one of the dirtiest black hat tricks is to scrape your copy cloak it up to the spider by IP delivery and place it on a higher page rank page than you. The result is that on a search, your site will disappear from the serps because of duplicate content.

I recommend you use this tool http://www.copyscape.com/ it will scan your page, and then scan the web looking for duplicate content. I have to send out emails daily.

[Paul_KY]

Daily :roll:

[temi]

I tried that tool but its not very efficient for my site (probably because my site sell a generic service like domain name registration) what I have found to be most effective is to copy a block of text from my page and past it into Google and do a search, works like magic