In principle, we object to the reproduction of our texts and images. We support customers reselling OUR products the following way:

We are happy about every customer who successfully resells our products.

Unfortunately, we often notice that resellers also use our texts and images for product description. As a result, search engines index our and their websites much lower than they do unique texts.

Plagiarism and copies put your ranking in search engines at risk
Search engines grade the content of a website. The more content a website has and the higher the quality of this content, the better the ranking in the search results will be. Search engines assess the quality of the website content by means of several factors, one of which is how often the same content is found on other websites. Uniqueness is ideal, whereas an exact copy of a website is fatal, because search engines often consider this as “duplicate content”, which means that one of the websites containing the same content is excluded from the index of the search engine. Which website is excluded depends, among others, on the link popularity, i.e. on the number and relevance of the websites linked to the website in question.

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You are welcome to use the content of our texts, but we ask you to rewrite the text in such a way that it can be considered unique. It is important to not just change the word order but to use other words and phrases as well. Your benefit: Your own texts will probably be ranked higher by search engines.

We would very much like to retain you as customer and assist you with the development of your business. Yours sincerely,

We frequently receive the following request:

Hello, I am a customer of your shop and would like to ask you whether I may use your product images for my own online shop.

We assist our customers in every way possible, because their success is our success. However, we have to reply to this request as follows:

Dear Sir or Madam,

Thank you for your request regarding the utilisation of our product images. Octopus Office spends a lot of time and effort on creating these product images and on continuously developing and improving them. Unfortunately as a result, our images are more and more frequently copied and used online without our permission.

If we allow our customers to use our product images, we no longer have any means to stop those users who do not ask permission first, because if we ask them to remove our images from their websites, these users will claim that our images can be found everywhere on the web and are therefore not copyright-protected. This reasoning is very difficult to disprove.

For this reason, we have to refuse your request and kindly ask you not to use our images.

If you have any questions regarding the creation of our product images, please do not hesitate to contact us by telephone. We will be happy to give you advice.

Thank you again for your kind request…