Article Spinning Infinity paradox

so I am guessing you are in the no it doesnt work on any level camp?

Correct.

Google does not limit how many copies it will index, and never has done: I believe that this is simply factual, and not contested by anyone (and certainly it's very difficult indeed to imagine how it could possibly be contested, when it's so easily observable and verifiable!).

In theory, Google will index one copy in the main index and the remaining ones in the supplemental index. In practice, as we can all see, it doesn't always work out that way, because what Google's algorithms "intend to do" and what they actually "manage to do" overlap by perhaps only 80% rather than the 100% which they'd obviously prefer.

But the link-juice of a backlink from something in the supplemental index isn't worth any less than the same backlink on the same page would be worth in the main index. It's true that technically I can't prove that, but technically I can't prove that water is wet, either. I've certainly never seen anyone assert otherwise, and clearly it would be very bizarre indeed if anyone tried to. Even people selling spinning software and spinning services, whose sales pages pretty often contain large numbers of factual misrepresentations about "duplicate content", are not alleging that (they can bamboozle some people about "duplicate content", perhaps, but not about something like that, which they'd just have no remotely plausible or sensible way of justifying or explaining)! I don't think even the members of the "Flat Earth Society" can believe that the value of the link-juice is less in one index than in the other - especially not when "which copies live where" for indexation purposes is so fluid and changeable.

I really think a lot of people completely forget the whole point of articles.

Sure, you want google to rank you high - but surely more important is that PEOPLE (yes, real people who use the internet) enjoy your articles and come back for more.

And people CAN tell if all your articles are just spun and respun over and over.

I know that I personally like to read well-written, imaginative, innovative articles, and suspect most people are the same. So pretty sure that is the best thing to deliver, google or no google.

Yes, you could.

There are people selling "backlinking services" which do exactly this (some of them with far more than 100 blogs/sites). Some sell it as a "spinning also included" service; others not. It's all the same thing.

Some sellers even have the chutzpah to call what they're selling an "article marketing service". :rolleyes: :p

Exactly as Owslaw says, just above, "it would not be worth your effort".

"Numbers of backlinks" alone count for almost nothing (as I discovered myself, over an extended period, when I used many such services, and mass-submitted my own articles to thousands of article directories, both with and without spinning ).

Quality and relevance are what matter, for SEO.

From what I've observed and read from others, Google will index all copies they find and attempt to show what they believe is the most relevant one. It may be the original, indexed first on the author's site, or it may be a syndicated copy for another reason.

Geography might be one of those reasons. Let's say I have an article on , oh, 'saltwater fishing in Florida' . It's indexed on my site in the US, and syndicated on a travel or fishing related site in Australia. Someone searching from Australia may very well be presented with the local syndicated copy above the original.

Either way, a human reads that article, with links to where I want them to go next.