To spin or not to spin?

Don't spin. It's outdated and only produces low quality material. If you're serious about IM then you'll be serious about the material you post. If you can't (or don't want to) write it yourself then hire someone else to do it for you.

Don't start by cheating, you'll only regret it later. Ask the legion of people who lost everything when Google wised up last year.

Spinning is not a advisable technique. It will not helps you most. SE always want a fresh and unique content each and every time.

I think Spinning your content is not work out.

Which one works for you? Have you tried? If you seen that a spun article does not increase your traffic will you do it again?

Hope you get the idea...

I am tired of hearing the bull shit that spinning does not work. Sure it won't work if you use it for your main site which you need to rank continuously and for competitive terms. But I have used spun content for back linking purposes with good effect. Go ahead and use spun content for your web 2.0/article directories/blog networks. But don't do it on your main site.

All the best!

With the amount of competition around all the profitable niche markets, I think it is important to provide good quality content so that people will find your content user and be willing to visit your website. I personally feel it is more practical to create unique and useful content.

I'm certainly not a fan of the automatic spinning programs...
no matter what they say on the site, the quality sucks and
always will.

On the other hand you can some decent results doing it manually
as you've suggested you're going to do. That's the best way to
use these tools in my opinion.

Take care

Steve

Many spinners doesn't make any sense when you read it.

I'm in favor of spinning, as long as it's not over abused;
1. I do it only manually, never been happy with the auto results
2. Most of the spun content is just used for backlinking on peripheral sites.
3. I do spin a small portion of content on main sites, however never a full article, perhaps a paragraph or so, something that helps me with topics I'm not well familiar with.

All in all, spinning is not the tool that will lift your business to some new level, but it can assist and perhaps save some time as well, as long as its used wisely/moderately.

Please spin smartly..
Don't create hundreds of backlinks overnight. Do it gradually. Google is too smart for anyone.
Spinning does help in the sense that there are blogs that only post RSS feeds still do very well in Google ranking. These are also duplicate contents.

And also create only backlinks from quality sites.. Bear in mind quality over quality.

Cheers.

I suggest you go for article rewriting instead. That will create new versions of your article. But although spinning is not a recommended strategy post-Penguin update, you can still use it if you know how to come up with a very good spun article.

My friend, if you're going to do it manually go for it. The way I do it - is to find 10 articles for 1 topic then take important notes/tips/tricks and put them in 1 article. I believe if an article is approved on ezine articles & hub pages it is good content and will work well on search engines.

If you just rely on auto-spin then you wont get good results. Every internet marketing technique/tool works, just depends on how you use it, Period! Whoever says spun articles don't work or don't make sense when reading it, you are totally doing it wrong!

I wouldn't spin either. Take a few minutes and rewrite the ariticle. You should get pretty fast after doing a few.

This is why people fail in school. Understand the question 1st before you answer. This is not about mass article submission or backlinks. This is all about "Manual Spinning" guys!!!!! So please stick to that Geez

Don't bother spinning them. I've tried it a few times (and will not do anymore) and I still have to rewrite them anyway myself. Just save your time and energy and just write your own content rather than relying on some software to do it for you.

If you really don't want to touch it yourself, you can just outsource it but make sure they're not spinning the contents..

Don't spin. It will make your readers dizzy. Really though why put up computer junk? Everyone knows what it is and it makes you look bad.

Get real.

Personally I think spinning is disprespectful to the Internet and your potential customers.

They deserve good solid quality content. The more the merrier.

tbh most of these people dont know what they are talking about... Lets say you write an article for your site, but you want to reach more people so you spin your article changing words flipping paragraphs and then finally post them on places like squidoo and hubpages. What's the problem there??

Lets not pretend that we all have unique ideas and that a place that literally has billions of users has a 100% unique content....

Rewriting an article us exactly the same as manually spinning one... The beef people have isn't with spinning itself they have a problem with using a program to rewrite content. I spin articles when needed and I will continue to just like everyone else will, regardless of what adverb you use to describe the action

manually spinning is the same as rewriting an article.

Don't spin content, it's the equivalent of littering on the street. Your only reason for actually spinning would be because you're worried if you don't spin your main site with the original content will suffer, or the backlinks wont count. That's completely wrong.

Google finds the original content first and shows only that version of the content in its search results in-order to not return the same content to users several times over. This is so the searcher has a quality search engine experience with many different resources.

So Google isn't going to penalize the original content, though there has been rare cases where content put up after has taken the place of the original site, but that's a mistake on Google's side and it can be fixed by addressing this with the support team. Google isn't even penalizing those that use the same content afterwards, but rather it has a duty to its users to not show the same content again, not because it thinks you are copying and you don't deserve to rank. Furthermore, people use content from other sites to supply its existing userbase with content to read usually, and shouldn't be done in the hopes that you rank, or as a way to avoid content creation(if you don't like it, outsource it, or you're just in the wrong industry).

This misunderstanding is also the reason why many use PLR the wrong way The idea of PLR is to feed your current users with content, or to provide a base on which to build upon or change when editing the PLR to make it unique to you.

So I suggest you write your content, and then submit it as is to any site you please, because the backlink will count the same if not better than a spun article. Article directories don't have much authority anymore in that sense anyway because Google is fully aware that people have abused them heavily and has had no choice but to put in place footprints to figure out when backlinks are coming from Article Directory sites, and obviously it has put a mark on the bigger directories, so that they can devalue that link. IM'ers, including me who have used directories to build backlinks in the past have brought this on and we only have ourselves to blame.

Google also takes into consideration how many visitors have visited that page, what the bounce rate was, how many outgoing links the page has (the less it has the more importance a link is given to be on that page, and Article Directories usually have many outgoing links), if the content is overly abusing a keyword and many other factors. And I'm sure it's safe to say that if you submit spun content that your page will score low with all the above and have less value in the links it gives.

So you need quality content that'll score high with Google. So either submit the same content (syndicate), or write content from scratch for these places

Sorry for the essay My other half takes over and the process of writing long posts becomes an automatic response haha. After I hit submit I 'turn back' to myself

*EDIT*

Well, as soon as I read the op I began writing my version of what I think is the appropriate answer without reading other posts, but it seems Alexa was spot on with her answer and beat me to the punch. Or perhaps, if many people reply with similar posts, it'll drill this fact into newcomers and those that have been wasting their time. Believe it or not, were saving you $$ that could be better spent on more useful things and time that could be better spent doing 'REAL' business tasks such as content creation, management or marketing.

Thanks,

Jason.

Spun content does work.Manually spun content that is.

I think it depends on what you plan on doing with your articles. I don't think it is a good idea to post them on your main website but using them to build back links from article directories might work out.