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I will try not to sound too dumb for the benefit of all the webgurus on here, but... I am suffering from deep mental anxiety, like, Arghhh.
Yeah, I got given a couple of sites for my 21st (like-good intentions etc) One, however, sells replica products, using the trademarked name etc. I have checked and viewed hundreds of sites that use the same trademarked name, and they all seem to trade ok.
Now my qustions are;
1) is this perfectly legal? Are you allowed to sell replica products if you claim that they are, in fact, just replicas?
2)How do the search engines view this? Do they allow you to submit the tradmarked names for keywords?
3) When you submit to search engines, how long does it take? And while it is in the process of being submitted, do you lose access to the site until it actually gets accepted? (I cant access my site anymore, it asks me for my password, but my password does not allow me in. submitted 2 weeks ago)
4)I thought I would be a real webmaster and submit to overture, pay my money and do some ppc. But all my keywords have been declined. Would this be due to the site not being accessaqble or just because it is trademark infringement? It came up as "broken site", for a few entries in overture.
5) How on earth do you know if any search engines have accepted you, or ever will?
What a birthday present aye...(sigh)
Thanks guys, hope you can help.
To check if you are in the results, copy a paragraph of unique text from your site and paste into Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc search boxes - it should bring your site up at the top of the results.
The password problem you have is kinda weird - are you talking about FTP password to access your site's files? Or to simply view your site in a browser such as Internet Explorer?
You never lose access to your site, so something is amiss there.
1.Replica interesting idea if it is a reproduction of antique furniture sounds great if it is a knock off of a designer label or the like, you could be in the spotlight for the all the wrong reasons.
2.Search engines may penalise you for certain things but you could be writing about how to pick a replica also.
3. Its your site you should have access to it at any time you want if you are having problems contact the company the hosts your website.
4.The are better people here to answer that but you could read there TOS again just to be sure.
5.Its just a matter of time be patient it will happen and it’s a good gift make it positive
Rad.
ThanKs for that. After reading this,I emailed the company and they told me the password thing was a " host" problem, and they fixed it immediately. Now, should I just start all over again and resubmit to the search engines and overture again? Obviously noone could access my site before now.
Also, I am still a bit worried about this replica stuff.They are knock off products, but it clearly states on the site that it is not meant to be authentic. What can happen?Everything in the registration points directly to me, as noone had a clue, when they bought the site, that it could be dicey. I also notice, when I type in my url,( now I can get in!) the url stays on my domain name, but the page it displays is actually the parent site page.This has something to do with it being a partner site, doesn't it?( I notice that a lot of those travelsites are set up like that too.Any more info would be great, so I can get some beauty sleep! hmmmmm
The address bar situation you describe sounds like a frameset -- your domain has a frameset page that holds another domain's page inside a frame.
