Article Spinners

They are not dangerous in the right hands. Its only a tool. I rarely ever used an article spinner, and when I did use one, it took me as long to rebuild my articles with a spinner as it did rewriting them from scratch. I was using a spinner only for the antonyms part basically.

Today, I write my new articles from scratch. Its all really up to you, but as for being a time saver, it wasn't in my case. It has been beneficial to others I'm sure so I'll let others give their opinions

Take care,

Bernard St-Pierre
Marketing Consultant
Copywriter/Teacher

Hi, and welcome to the forum, Philip.

I'm sorry to hear it.

That's typically a fear of people who don't quite understand the difference between "duplicate content" and "syndicated content", and it's a fear reinforced by the ludicrously nonsensical and wildly unaccurate claims made on the websites of those with financially vested interests in the "spinning software/service industry". It's easy for them to exploit the perpetuation of many of the urban myths about "duplicate content penalties". :rolleyes:

Use the search function here. Look for threads with the words "spinning" and "duplicate content" in their titles. You'll find two distinct sets of opinions represented by the participants of those threads. You don't need to be Einstein - you just need a little bit of thought, attention and judgment, to tell for yourself which side's talking sense and which side's talking nonsense.

The duplicate content penalty, as its called, is more about you having the same content on your site more than once rather than having the same-ish content in various places around the internet.

A spinner can be useful for you if your goal is to publish a lot of articles around the internet prety much for the purpose of backlinks. It is also helpful if you are in a program like NPP, AMA or MAN which require you to have your article in spin ready format before you can publish it on their network.

Other people are of the opinion that each article is much better if it is unique and that this allows for content syndication in a way that gets your articles read and clicked on rather than just mass-creating them for backlinking purposes.

It kind of depends on what your purpose is in writing in the first place. Spinning articles just using the built in auto-spin function of the thesaurus often produces articles which are just horrific to try to read. Because all that is happening is a few words are getting switched out.

If you are going to use a spinner, a good practice is to first rewrite your articel at a sentence level and then selectively choose which words are going to be used for synonyms. This probably produces the best quality spun articles.

This is only my opinion and many (most) disagree with it, perhaps justifiably so. Having said that, the practice of spinning articles in any way goes against everything I believe in related to Internet marketing.

I'm not trying to sound holier than thou (or thee), but when I put my name on something I take pride in it and wouldn't for any reason have a piece of software change so much as a punctuation mark, a word, or a phrase.

What's more, when I read something--whether an ebook, an article, or a blog post--I expect it to be a direct creation of the person with their name on it. Of course if it is a syndicated article with the original author's name in tact in a resource box that's obviously acceptable.

Aside from that, article spinning has no place in my arsenal. I just have too much pride in my works to mutate them into anything but the exact words I choose. Many disagree--probably most, but they've got their ethics and I've got mine. --Mike

the best spinner is not dangerous. in fact it IS the best spinner! duplicate only means if u have same page content on same site. junk sites do this alot