What to do with copy cats?

Recently I noticed that another local company started to copy one of my ideas for ranking in Google. Now usually this wouldn’t really bother me all that much but because it’s someone local, it does bother me. I don’t know what being local has to do with it, but it somehow changes things.

So at first I was pretty mad and considered going on a rampage like I did with the “naples seo” search term. If you search for “naples seo” you will see the search results have been pretty much devastated by various sites that I control. At one time it was a peaceful land where all “SEOers” in Naples happily shared the space with each other. Today, not so much. This change hasn’t gone un-noticed either, some people have been talking about me and what I do, they have also sent me some messages via awstats referrers.

So anyway, after sitting back and thinking I started to relax. While my first reaction was to pollute the search results for “naples web design” like I did the results for “naples SEO”, I realized doing so would take time and energy away from my #1 goal of hitting the first result for Naples Web Design in Google. Which by the way, I’m at #2 now. I’d like to hit that #1 before the end of the month, I’m actually surprised it’s taken this long.

This isn’t a green light to start copying my methods either. If you push it too far I will get angry and take it out on the offending company or companies. So please, copy off me with care. Doing it here and there is fine, just let’s not get too crazy with it, OK?

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