[justnorris]

Thank you for pulling out that tweet from deleted Twitter history and posting it here.

Of course content is going to overlap, however, affiliate links specific to a single site do not.

A part of your staff added a WPexplorer link in an article of your instead of the actual link. That link wouldn't appear there unless there were some copy pasting going on, the details don't matter, I saw the end result, and commented on it based on the information available.

p.s. Tom Ewer is Raelene Morey ? The post is attributed to Raelene Morey, so I'm not quite sure I understand why are you explaining how nice of a guy Tom is in real life. I'm sure he is, but the article isn't written by him.

Have a fantastic day yourself, today I learned a couple of things about the internet, thank you for that, I truly appreciate all your time spent on the discussion with me.

[timbowers]

Tom Ewer writes for Rae, she's the editor at WPMU DEV. ;)

They regularly converse about all the articles they both write for their profession. Don't you see the connection between articles written for both companies?

Still a lot about nothing really. A couple of links were copied whilst researching, but the content was all unique for both sites.

Cheers.

[justnorris]

I never expected you to admit that there might be a slightest sliver of copy paste here. Your explanations are very believable, if you want to believe them.

Anyway, I never realized that it was the proper way to write articles on the web. I also didn't know that editors sometimes claim ownership over articles that someone else wrote. As I said - I'm not a writer, so I learnt a lot today.

There is a lot of gray area. You want people to find you on "page builders" on Google, and so did WPExplorer, so you both hired the same guy to write the same article, with different wording, images, and a couple different items in the article.

So, the take-away for me is: Same Author, Same story with different wording and graphics = perfectly acceptable form of content authorship. I get it now - It's not your fault, it's the way the world works, for example, peeps at HTC were very inspired by iPhone 6: https://www.google.com/search?q=htc+that+looks+like+iphone

I just didn't know the same principles apply everywhere, but I'm noticing that trend more & more in lots of different areas of business.

All good, Cheers.