Closer to the BIG HALF MILLION every day, we now stand at 467,234 and have had over 25,000 visits in the last 2 days alone! I hope I can grab a screen shot of the 500,000 mark! On a separate note, I posted about another billion page views website back on the 22nd of Jan 2006, it seems they have now decided to copy a lot of our site layout, some scripts we use, marketing techniques, website design etc, I would just like to remind you that i’m not affiliated with them in any way, I do not endorse any website that copies another website’s text etc in such a way, this is a project i started of my own back, from scratch, with my own marketing idea’s! So lets stay focussed and make this happen!

Copycat, who? what? where?

Some of you may have noticed that I spoke about another billion page views website on my blog just days after launching this one, I posted about them on my blog here, they have since changed their entire site to look more or less like mine, they also have installed all the same scripts I use, even copied the blog, just to set the record straight, I have never once said I was the first to make a site like this (as you can see in my initial post), I certainly didn’t know about them when I launched mine, anyway, they are also e-mailing all people that link into this website asking them not to link us and to change the links to them saying that I copied their design etc, those that know my site know that I havn’t copied anyone, there are web/screenshot (even the google cache) archives on the internet that can prove that, they have copied this site down to a T (everything from the guestbook, blog, friends list, the lot), they also search the internet for forums talking about us and highjack the thread with links going back to their site, not the most ethical way of marketing a site is it?

Since I have never employed such methods on them or even approached any of their links, I do not appreciate them doing that to us, however, i’m a firm believer, what goes around, comes around, I will continue with my efforts and still continue a ethical approach without approaching any of their link partners etc. I will also come up with innovative ideas like our links list etc by myself and not copy any of their methods as they have done us.

Good luck to them, my intention was never to step on any toes.