Sharing Your Niche Markets with Others
Over the month or so that I have been talking about the Putter site being awarded in the contest, I have talked to several of you about your own sites, and the methods you are using to get them properly researched and launched. One of the suggestions I tell to tell everyone, is be careful about blogging it, or sharing the niche with others.
This has never been more true than with the Golf Putter Guide site!
Painting a Target On Your Back
Last night, I was running through some of the site pages and checking copyscape, just to see if any of the pages had been duplicated out on the web. I found that while none of the exact texts have been copied, there are a few new Golf Putter Review sites that popped up in the last few weeks and one in particular, is tripping the copyscape filters with very similar content.
When I decided to build the golf site, many of you may recall that I didn’t want to post the actual product pages, until they were live and ready for traffic. Anyone who knows their way around BANS would easily have known them, as you only need to force a 404 on the site to see the full index of pages.
Of the few I found, 1 of them has, literally, the EXACT pages as the putter guide site! Yup… same categories, same product review pages and in most cases, even the same product review titles! Its not a BANS site, but instead WordPress was used on the backend.
The moral of this story…
If you Blog about, or share your own projects in public domain, someone, somewhere… will take that project and try to make it their own!
In this case, there was no option to keep the niche private… so I may just have to do a little overdrive marketing on this one! 
which is GREAT for the site winner!
Mark
Sorry to hear that. I have learned a lot with the last few niche sites I have built and I hope from reading the N1WAY guide and following your advice the next niche site I have in the works is a winner. It seems the hardest part for me is finding the right niche.
It’s a shame people can’t be productive on their own.
Given the immense amount of brilliant help and information contained in the new guide it is amazing the numptys want to rip off others work rather than doing it themselves. Any way keep up the good work its a great help to those of us who are actually working at doing it ourselves. HONESTLY
On the potentially positive side of this coin, if the person who copied your site was too lazy to create his/her own site, then there is a good chance that this person will be too lazy to properly market it. If that is the case, even though the site has been copied, yours will win out in the end. (I’m doing my best to find the silver lining in this dark cloud.)
Rochelle
The lack of ethics in this arena astounds me. Good attitude about it though Mark.
So, that means the xeroxed site’s content has been published first in some cases (since your product pages were hidden), so that means your site will be considered duplicate content?
Lazy sods, I agree with Rochelle, hopefully that will be the case.
Yo Mark, when something like this happens, do you pursue those folks and give them your own C&D or just let it go?
@ Jake –
Nahh… I view it as a “Challenge”
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