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fresh home readers digest1 Fresh Home an Unexpected Surprise from Readers Digest

As you might know when you start a website, you have to choose a domain name for that domain. First I wanted to get the domain Freshhome.com, but it wasn’t available, so after searching other alternatives I’ve decided that I like Freshome.com …and I’ve started my online journey. Yesterday I’ve found from Charlesandhudson and Adage that Reader’s Digest Association (RDA) plans to launch a new home magazine aimed at an under-30 crowd later this month ( more exactly on 27 February ) …and surprise …that magazine is called Fresh Home. I’m pretty sure that they don’t know about Freshome.com, and if they will decide in future to move online ( as many magazines do these days ) they might have a little surprise. What do you think about this ? Do you have any suggestions ?

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Published by Michael 19 Feb 2009 in Uncategorized

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28 comments:

  1. an says:
    February 27, 2009 at 8:59 pm

    I actually went looking for the magazine’s website and came across your site! So technically, I would say that it is definitely benefitting you for the time being. BTW: great site!

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  2. LinkCrave: Megan Fox is Single | StyleCrave | Men's lifestyle magazine says:
    February 25, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    [...] friends over at Freshome are better than Reader’s Digest [...]

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  3. Sandra says:
    February 25, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    Actually, i thougth i wrote the name wrong… but then,
    your site came out and i found it pretty interesting…
    Usually the problems with the domain names are solve by
    adding a “-” in bettween or the word “magazine”…

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  4. Bryan Henry says:
    February 24, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    I own freshomemagazine.com and freshhomemagazine.com

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  5. Midhun says:
    February 23, 2009 at 11:06 am

    Hey, don’t be completely disheartened. I have had a few success stories in getting sites that use autobots to quit. Usually the webmasters of such sites do read all the incoming mail and sometimes act on the fear of having their Adsense banned. And yeah, getting justice is a tough thing. :( But atleast you can have the satisfaction of having done everything that you could have.

    Here is a link that maybe of help to you:
    http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/report-cheater.php

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  6. Michael says:
    February 23, 2009 at 10:48 am

    Thanks for your advices, but I think that those pages are just robots that copy and paste content, and to get to the actual owner would be a hard thing to do, and he will ignore me, because this is what he knows best to do …copy/ paste and spam.

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  7. Midhun says:
    February 23, 2009 at 10:40 am

    Sadly not all of them. But atleast some of them will take notice if you mention plans about alerting Google and their web hosts.

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  8. Michael says:
    February 23, 2009 at 8:06 am

    Midhun – And to they agree to remove the content after you send them an email ?

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  9. Midhun says:
    February 23, 2009 at 6:36 am

    Yes, Michael, it is a common problem faced by many bloggers. Publishing your RSS feed as content on another website is downright illegal and I think you should warn the webmaster concerned. I have been a victim of this too and now I even have a standard mail that I use to send to plagiarists!

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  10. Michael says:
    February 22, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    Midhun – There are a lot of websites that copy Freshome word by word
    but I don’t have what to do to them.

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  11. Midhun says:
    February 22, 2009 at 11:28 am

    I find it surprising for RDA to launch FreshHome during such a dull period when so many print magazines are shutting down. Would be interesting to see if they would go for a standalone domain or they would include it within rd.com. Either way I don’t think you it will affect you negatively.

    Regards,
    Midhun, Home-Designing.

    *PS: just noticed a site that I think is taking your RSS and publishing it:

    http://www.styleofdesign.com/2009/02/fresh-home-an-unexpected-surprise-from-readers-digest/

    Is it with your authorization?

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  12. Eumir González says:
    February 22, 2009 at 9:33 am

    Maybe RD will make an offer anytime. It could be so good for the
    pockets, anyway I think freshome have many faithful readers and we
    will follow you anywhere.

    Greetings from México!

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  13. Margaret Howe says:
    February 22, 2009 at 7:03 am

    Hey, maybe you’ll get increased traffic from typos!

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  14. Jason says:
    February 21, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    I do hope this site lasts~~ I enjoyed reading the posts, a lot of effort and creativity goes into this!

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  15. Wizz says:
    February 21, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    just dont bother keep posting new stuff and this might
    increase the number of readers

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  16. Backup lol says:
    February 21, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    Takelegal action,they have copied your ideas or they change their magazine name. Lol

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  17. SoFoReal says:
    February 20, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    This could actually work in your favor… more viewers will see your page…even if by accident

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  18. Jen says:
    February 20, 2009 at 6:05 am

    Love your site! I too looked up fresh home and got your site. Now how do I get someone to start a magazine labeled “Raising Granola”…

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  19. CJay says:
    February 20, 2009 at 2:44 am

    Love this site, but get a good lawyer, these people are conservative and sue-happy…

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  20. antonio says:
    February 20, 2009 at 2:16 am

    Call reader digest and sell your domain for a million dollars.

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  21. holly says:
    February 19, 2009 at 10:40 pm

    I hope you get more love and visitors, I love your site and always will! <3
    :)

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  22. Peter says:
    February 19, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    Before you see big $$$, freshhome.com directs you to a flower site.
    Probably they add -magazine at the end or make a link from their own website.

    Ofcourse I hope you get more traffic.

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  23. jake says:
    February 19, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    I think they “borrowed” your idea and name. You should pioneer their online venture of the magazine.

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  24. Alf says:
    February 19, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    I guess that the people of Readers digest has pirated your idea,
    because is really popular your blog, and also the magazine and this
    blog is the same, so you must bring a lawsuit against them.

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  25. Timothy says:
    February 19, 2009 at 8:37 pm

    I think this will definitely work in favor of Freshome.com. It’s
    Amazing that mags even announce launches without first setting up
    a domain that points people to a branded site even if there is no
    content. Most likely they will grab freshhomemag.com (which I see
    they’ve already done!). But a Google search for fresh home magazine
    brings up you guys! Well done on the SEO!!!

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  26. Amy S. says:
    February 19, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    funny that you mention this. i saw this about the magazine and googled fresh home to see if they had a website and yours popped up! you may get more new visitors like me because of it!

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  27. Mike @ DigsDigs says:
    February 19, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    I think that mean you’ll have more traffic after a while =)
    People make spelling mistakes very often.

    Reply

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