When we first created the website, we were comfortable with sharing our content with others, then we found out about some search engine statistics that changed our minds. Search engines frown on duplicate content. That means if we have an article and you copy it for your website and post it there, we both lose points with the search engines. Who wants that? Not us, not you. That's why we've created the energy healing info copyright policy.

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The Reasons

*Duplicate content drops search engine rankings for all pages involved. It is considered spam by the search engines.

*Visitors don't want to read the same rehashed information at every site they visit. Let's keep it fresh and new for them!

*We spend hours creating each information page and each graphic on our website. You wouldn't want someone stealing your pages after you spent hours creating them.

*It's just bad karma to steal from another's hard work.

*It's good karma not to steal!

*Buddha is watching.

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O.K. If that last one didn't convince you, read on for some legal mumbo-jumbo:

We, the owners of the Energy Healing Info website, Patrick Ray and Tanja Hoagland have written all of the content and created all of the pictures and images on this website, unless specifically mentioned with credits given to the original creator.

The right-click function has been disabled on all of our pages, except for a select few where we offer free images. In addition we do use copyscape.com and run our pages through the copyscape program frequently to see if anyone has used our writing or images illegally. If discovered, we contact the website with a cease and desist notice. If that fails, we take further steps with google and the website's ISP provider, which can result in a ban.

We spend hours creating each page of information for our website visitors and hours creating each image on our site. We do this because we believe in freely sharing knowledge about energy healing. Freely sharing knowledge means visitors coming to our site to view it, not individuals taking our work and plagiarizing it as their own. Please don't use our content on your website. Make your own. Your readers and visitors will appreciate your unique viewpoint.

We do have several pages of free images that are available for use. If you are interested in reading about the allowed uses of the free images, please read further.

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Free Image Guidelines