Firstly we’d like to personally apologize for that last article we posted. If you didn’t get a chance to read it before we removed it, that’s even better. We made a terrible mistake and someone reminded us the harsh way. We’re just glad that we got a chance to nip this at the bud before it caused anymore damage.

Now, the cause of the problem was our lack of time to manage things this week. We have been so overwhelmed with ongoing projects that we didn’t get a chance to write up quality articles for the blog as planned. So we resorted to posting a free article from articlecity.com. What we didn’t realize in our hurry is that the article wasn’t valid, and that it was outdated and even proven wrong. We risked having our readers following what the article suggests therefore misleading them (you). For this we sincerely apologize if you’re one of the few who read the article.

The biggest damage to us came from Nick from performancer.com when he publicized our mistake to the readers of his blog. This made us look very poor and unprofessional. We sincerely appreciated what Nick was trying to do, but we wish he could’ve done it in a more subtle way as not to hurt us.

On another note, Google hates duplicate content, and when you use free articles on your blog you’re doing exactly that. When Google indexes your blog it can mistake you as a splog.

The moral of this is, DO NOT USE FREE ARTICLES WHATSOEVER. If you like an article you read online, cross check its truth, and rewrite it in your own words. Do not fall into the mistake we just did. It can and it will damage you and your reputation. Stay away from free article repositories and stay away from duplicate content.

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