Follow Me Don’t Copy Me

I like to think I add something refreshing to my own social media accounts, for one I don’t just sell myself or NorthSouthMedia permanently on any of the social media platforms I’m involved with. In an unrelated discussion with a fellow seo marketer, on Twitter, the other day, it became aware of how many companies are sitting there idly waiting for resources to be posted so they can go ahead and create their own blog post, basically ripping of someone else’s content, but done with the care-in-mind that their disemblance of the original post ain’t going to catch the attention of the OP (original poster) or even the Google Duplicate Content trawler.

To those that rip off the posts, that I carry-off either badly or with sometimes a wee bit of of initiative, don’t think for one second I haven’t clocked your like-for-like intentions. It’s crap blogging, with all the bits n’ bobs happening around the search marketing industry right now, I’m sure you can create your own take of the search marketing world without skimming my content like some bad repeat of the Trumpton kids series.

Words, are just that, words! Ideas, are a different discipline, not that I do in real life come up with many, but to copy idealistic content just for the sake of a blog post, that’s just a toilet flush away from being a complete sh!t provider. Is that what you want? People to check your blog and then hear on the grapevine your ripping of content elsewhere? I understand, more than most, just how difficult it is to produce fresh, linkable ideas into a search marketing format. But just because Copy Blogger says its OK, doesn’t make it right. Think for yourself, and I’m sure at least you’ll gain the respect from us here at NorthSouthMedia if nowhere else, heck at least it’s a step in the right direction, if nothing else!