[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.