I’ve been following the adventures of iCop vs the content pirate. jl Scott of iCop tells me that her website content has been removed from the other site.
In my previuos post I pretended to be suspicious of the timing of this – jl has just released a book about protecting your content from crooks called Beat Web Thieves at Their Own Game!. I was being my usual smartass self.
This sounds like the tricks used be some of the “gurus” when they launch a product. You’ve seen them too haven’t you?
- The “our server crashed” so we’re extending the deadline trick.
- The old “oops, I sent the wrong link” trick. This let’s them send you another email, but not appear to be spamming you. If they can’t get a link right, should they be teaching you to do Internet Marketing?
- The forced or at least well hidden continuity program.
So I wouldn’t be shocked if some of these guru types posted a fake website and then attacked it to make their product look better. But I’m not sure I was clear in the end about pointing out I’m sure jl scott didn’t rig this whole thing to make her book sell better.
After reading my post, she sent an update to her list. In it she mentioned this.
I should tell you – this didn’t just “happen” during my launch
of the new ebook. The domain registration on that web site says
it was registered in May, 2010. So, that copy has most likely
been there for nearly four months.I DID just happen to find it as I was doing a search Monday
while using a method I had forgotten about when writing the
book.I wasn’t expecting to actually FIND anything. Guess I should
check more often than every six months!
I’ve seen her promote products for a long time. She’s always done it in a straight forward manner. She raises hell about deceptive practices in web marketing in her newsletters. She started a company to promote integrity in web business practices.
So, if in my attempt to be clever in a blog post I seemed to be accusing her of doing this type of underhanded marketing, I’m sorry. I wasn’t.
She doesn’t roll that way.
