Can you recommend a good manual spinning service?

People are still spinning articles? I've tried the whole 3 deep level spinning on a manual level (and that takes FOREVER). It still comes out to jumbled garbage and I've tried hiring people to do it in the past.

I don't care what anyone says, there are no good spinners out there that can continually produce unique content that makes sense.

If you are looking for flawless material, you will need the spun articles EDITED HEAVILY and monitored closely. This might produce a service that is priced in between manually written materials (1 cent per word and lower) and fully spun articles (15 x 500 words @ $5 - I am using the price mentioned in a Fiverr gig: the actual average price for this service might be higher or lower).

Why?

What is it that you hope to gain by having multiple spun versions of the same article, rather than just having one and using it for multiple purposes/in multiple locations?

Spinning is based on a fundamental misunderstanding. It's a "solution to a problem that doesn't actually exist" - a solution of benefit only to people selling spinning services, as explained in this post, and in other posts in the same thread.

If you are going to spin something, spin your brain! I would recommend thesaurus.com I actually just wrote on diversifying your writing a few days ago. What I find about my own writing is I use the same words and phrases repetitiously throughout my writing, which essentially reduces the number of keyword combinations possible. If you use a thesaurus while you right and target common word phrases you use, you can have fun writing with a greater fullness over time.

Thanks for the comments. I did think that a spinning question would raise the "what's the point of spinning debate"

However someone told me once never to believe what you read in the forums and only go from your own evidence in the field.

I have a friend who runs an seo company and part of their service involves spinning articles (I can't use them as they are too expensive) but throughout all these Google updates less than 5% of their websites were hit.

Most sites increased their positions.

Whether Googl can or cannot tell the difference between a spun article and a unique one is not the question. The fact that my friends SEO clients are enjoying steady and increasing rankings is all the proof I need.

Can you really identify properly spun content? I was skeptical but have seen some stuff that is very readable. Properly spun content published to these "web 2.0" properties looks readable. In the spinning process relevant images and videos are also inserted where there wasn't any before.

SEO when done right is hard to identify. Same with rented/purchased links that Google frowns upon. It's hard to really say that I paid someone $100 to get onto their blogroll.

I'm not advocating web-spam or link purchases. Just pointing out the facts.

I've seen lots of case studies with keywords disclosed that are getting rankings with tiered link building (and spinning is a part of it).

I've not seen any case studies with keywords and the traffic is based on "article syndication".

Again, I'm not advocating one over the other. I prefer PPC, affiliate traffic, email and other more predictable traffic sources myself. SEO plays a smaller role but it's pretty cheap and effective.