{"id":317089,"date":"2019-07-26T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=317089"},"modified":"2019-07-29T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:33:02","slug":"entrepreneur-how-knockoffs-put-me-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/07\/26\/entrepreneur-how-knockoffs-put-me-out-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur: How Knockoffs Put Me Out of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: No, no, no, no. We want to blanket the United States in honor of Betsy Ross. We want to blanket the country with Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirts<\/a>. And the best way, the only way to get a real one is at RushLimbaugh.com, and, once you\u2019re there, find the “Store” tab. There is a specific URL for the store, but it\u2019s much longer than RushLimbaugh.com. Just go there and you\u2019ll be up and running.<\/p>\n

\"\"Here\u2019s Andrew in Tulsa. Great to have you, sir. Glad you waited. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Awesome. Hey, Rush, good to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to talk about the Stand Up for Betsy Ross T-shirts and now knockoffs can actually easily destroy a small business. It\u2019s something that happened in my business and it forced me to close earlier this month.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Explain how.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. So if you create a knockoff, e-commerce platforms like Shopify let users import thousands of fake reviews just via a spreadsheet, and those reviews aren\u2019t validated like they are on Amazon. And then Google blindly indexes those reviews and up-ranks the site for having what\u2019s called user generated content. If you want to become number one on Google, upload a few thousand fake reviews, and Google does the rest. That happened to me. A rich guy in California did it to me, outranked me on Google, and I went from being a viral company two years ago to having to close my doors this month.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And right there in the mix is Google with a bunch of phony reviews and phony popularity ratings.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a rampant issue all over on the internet and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. And sending people to fraudulent sites and fraudulent places. I\u2019m sorry that happened to you. I totally understand it, seeing what\u2019s happening here, 200-plus knockoffs, and one of them now charging $1,500, unbeknownst to customers, who are probably being steered to these fraudulent places in the way you describe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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