Duplicating Material From This Website

We often get asked by webmasters if they can duplicate our tutorials and other material on their own websites. The answer is "No" and this page explains why.

Note: Please don't be offended by the blunt nature of this explanation. It's nothing personal.

Duplication hurts us!

Duplication adversely affects our SE (search engine) rankings, and hurts us in other ways too.

People searching for our content might not find it at our own website. Instead, they go to someone else's website, view someone else's advertisements, and make money for them instead of us. We made this material and we deserve to be the ones making money from it.

Other webmasters may link to the duplicated content instead of our pages, further damaging our SE rankings.

Some search engines have the ability to recognize duplicated content. Exactly how badly this affects SE rankings is open to debate, but there is little doubt that it is at least a potential problem which is likely to become more of an issue as technology improves.

Our philosophy

Duplicating content is against our philosophy of how the Internet should work. There is no reason to duplicate content — that's what hyperlinks are for. If you think our content is worth viewing, create a hyperlink to it.

Content duplication leads to all sorts of complications and misuse. For example, the free content available through the ODP Project and Wikipedia is widely abused by unscrupulous webmasters to artificially bolster their SE rankings.

Duplicate content reduces the usefulness of SE results. We've all done searches in which the top 10 results are largely the same thing over and over. We believe it's time to put a stop to this.

And finally, duplicating content is a lazy way to build a website. If you really want a high-quality site, do what we've done and create your own original content. By all means link to other websites with good content, but don't use their content to pad your own site.

We have worked very hard for many years to build our original content. If you make the effort to do the same thing, in the long run you will find it to be both more rewarding and more profitable than using other people's content.

Enforcement

In cases where we discover copyrighted material has been stolen or duplicated we have no hesitation in taking action against the thieves responsible. MediaCollege.com is our livelihood and we will defend it vigorously. We're not talking about empty threats from a lawyer — when we find out someone has stolen our material, we fight back! Sorry to sound so aggressive but this is important to us and we mean business.