This post is here to serve as a warning about seoppc.co.uk and their business practices.

I was contacted recently By Jim Wilson at seoppc.co.uk. He asked me for a couple of business related things, I wasn’t interested and turned it down.

I then agreed I would let him publish a guest article on this blog in return for a credit link. He provided an article titled “Five SEO developments we can expect to see in 2010″ which was published here on this blog.

Yesterday I was testing a Copyscape api and ran it on this site – which flagged up seoppc.co.uk’s article as a word for word copy of an article on Coast Digital’s site.

After contacting them they confirmed that it was indeed their copyright. I got in touch with seoppc.co.uk. His response:

I can only apologise. The article was written for me (good ol’ Indians). I will be having words. Do you have any correspondance from them that I can forward ?

I am sorry but anyone with any sense would run copyscape on any articles that were writting in perfect English by a supposed Indian outsourcer. This excuse is just outright lies.

If this was true, then it has been brought to his attention. So why is he still hosting stolen content?

• Here
• and here
• etc… I could go on and on. Basically all of his news articles are “borrowed” with all credit links and sources stripped out.

If you want to read the original article, you can read it over on Coast Digital.

I would not trust seoppc.co.uk for anything related to search engine optimisation or ppc. If they are willing to steal content from one site and have it published on another purely to gain a backlink, why would you want to trust them with your business?