Does Article Spinning Work?

No EZA would probably drive to your house and well you get the point.

Yes, spinning does work. Provided you do it right and not the lazy way.

The right way is using enough paragraph and sentence replacements and throughly test to make sure the para/sentence transitions stay smooth.

The lazy way is just adding word replacements with a bunch of synonyms and pressing the button.

The idea is that you do not want the reader to pick up on the article being a spun version.

It depends on what you mean when you say, "does it work?" It works for getting the desired keywords in, which may or may not help your ranking depending on the saturation in the niche. It certainly works for getting links.

Where it falls way short is in readability. In my opinion a spun article can be spotted a mile away. There is a sacrifice of the flow and meter of a spun article in most cases. For the most part, when you spin an article you're creating copy for software rather than people. If you actually want people to understand your products and services you're not doing yourself any favors publishing spun articles.

Scott above says that he has each sentence re-written two to three times for each spun article. To me that's way more work than just writing a new one. I've never used article spinning software but I've read plenty of accounts of people here who have and most say that after they spin an article they need to go through and edit it for clarity. So again, you're talking up more time.

I think spinning articles appeals to people who don't trust their own ability to write. And let's face it, spinning also appeals to people who are just plain lazy and looking for the easy out. I'm not saying either is true in your case, but it would be hard to deny that it is true in some cases.

As for EZA, I received their newsletter a couple of days ago and Chris flat out said that they would be rejecting 'derivative' articles. That's a nice word for spun stuff. He also said that the majority of 'problem' and rejected articles were of the lower word count variety and that they'll be looking more favorably at longer articles. These new policies should greatly improve the quality of what they'll be accepting in the future. They should have done it long ago.

It works if it is done properly and you use the tool properly. The less control you have over your spinning the worse it will turn out so do not look for some push button system, because it does not exist and never will.

There are some that claim to have a push button system and some fall for that hype until they use it. A human writer can not be replaced no matter how much technology has advanced. As long as you have full control over the words and the article and you use the tools properly, you can produce some very well spun articles.

James

Well Stott, I might be ignorant in your eyes, and if you see me that way that's fine. But maybe it boils down to personal integrity. I read one of your posts recently in another thread where the OP asked if was okay to use stories in copy if they were't true. Almost everyone agreed that is wasn't. Everyone but you. Here's an excerpt from your post:

"For example, if I wanted to sell a weight gain product I would 'pose' as a male in his 20-30's who was ripped, used to be puny and made fun of, but now gets all the girls.

This would be reflected in a story and how "X product" made the difference ("X product" links right to the vendor page with the aff. link.)

Do I do this type of marketing? Yes."

So what you're saying is that you would cook up a phony live testimonial to market a product. Very interesting. And people wonder why the FTC is breathing down our necks.

Thanks for all the tips!

I will have a look at the links you provided Scott.

From my own experiences I think it's often faster to write your own articles from scratch if you have good knowledge in the area.

It doesn't have to take more then 15 minutes to create a new article then.

The problem can sometimes be if you focus on the same niche, and the subject could become reused over and over again.

That's why I thought about article spinners.

But since EZA are quite hard with what articles they approve, I guess it's best to continue research different areas, and provide new content yourself.

Great forum by the way

Yes, I guess it's best to create one of your own articles, even if you want to spin it or not.

I think article spinning is great for article marketing. It's great because if you use article spinning tools correctly you can see some great benefits from using these methods. I don't use article spinning in my business, but I can see how if used correctly can be a great way to boost your website into the top of the search engines.

I use spinning occasionally, more for posting on remote blogs etc for building backlinks. It definitely has its uses. But as many have already said...garbage in, garbage out.

Okay, though I might join in on this conversation. The question was asked if spinning content works, yes.

Does it work for everybody, no.

The reason it works for some and the reason it does not work for others is simple, it's all in the technique and the purpose for spinning.

I see there is some debate on whether or not you can publish spun content in ezinearticles or not. You can...we do it on a regular basis. Here is one of our articles.

Xbox 360 Errors Are Fixable

This is not one of the better ones but it is a niche I'm willing to share in public. As you can see it was approved. We submitted this article to 14 other sites at the saame time.

When using spun content the question I would ask is...What is the content being used for?

1) Is it strictly for building backlinks

2) Is it to generate traffic

The answer to those questions will help determine how you spin the content you want to publish.

There are levels of uniqueness when it comes to spinning content. I think I read here where people are spinning at the word level, its been our experience that is ineffective.

We spin at the sentence level and we use either 2 or 3 versions depending on what we are trying to accomplish.

The amount of success you will have depends on the effort you put into it.

just my 2 cents

If you want to save yourself time, linkacquisitions.com does exactly what you want. They rewrite your article three times and then randomly switch paragraphs, sentences, and words around and make them sound perfect.

You are saying that the duplicate content penalty is false? How do you know for sure?

There is no penalty, but if all your articles are the same, then they all get clustered and only one of the articles will show up in the serps. If your articles are rewritten then you will have more of them ranking well since they can't be clustered together.

I am not tooting James' horn here ...just stating some facts .

I was totally against spinning up until very recently . You can look back at some of my replies and see where I stood .

I actually thought that while James seemed to be a pretty good authority on article marketing, he was way off base when it cam to spinning .

I finally decided to prove him wrong . I joined his directory with the full intention of proving this spinning thing a farce .

His spinner gives me the ability to write each paragraph , let's say 3 times,( there is really no limit to this) . I make each paragraph flow into the next one . Make sure my paragraphs with the least amount of words add up to 500 or so. Hit spin and come up with at least 21 completely unique articles .

Now if I input junk the output will be junk. If I take the time to , in essence , write three quality articles , I push a button and get 21 quality articles back out .

Now I have not used the service a lot for the fact I have been building sites that are going to be the home of the new content I will have soon.

I have been actually changing some niches so my portfolio will be friendlier to article marketing .

In other words I was wrong about spinners . They are not all created equal.

I am so pleased with this spinner that I have been paying for it and not using it . I have created sites just to house the content I will get from it .

Lesson learned .... don't cull it until you have tried it .

I rewrite my article 3 times by hand for a total of 4. And then I use bad ass spin software to rotate entire paragraphs, sentences, and the words within them. My articles are spun 75% afterwards and sound perfect.

Basically I merge 4 into 1.

Well... so here's what I am doing.
1) Write article for my blog. Original content, of course.
2) Spin article on sentence level.
3) Spin article on word level.
4) Produce 100 or so spun versions.
5) Be clear to where you submit. If it's for human eyes (clicks) or for backlinking (search engine spiders).
5a) If for human eyes, article needs to be read and edited for quality control. There's no way around that and should not take longer than 3 minutes per spun version. Submit manually.
5b) If for backlinking (spiders) submit automatically.

Does this take time... sure. Does it get results? Yes.

Is it possible to get away with less effort? Yes.

But, since January I've build quite an online presence for my pen name.. As of today, a Google search with my pen name in quotes gets 25 800 results- and I've made sure before choosing that name that nobody else has an online presence with that name.

I'm happy to read your ideas about my strategy.

All good stuff here. Some like it and some don't. Some may think it is BS and some see it as a valuable effort at working smarter. For me, I like it and it is truely working smarter.

Now for some facts:

1. Word Replacement. I know I said much earlier that you should not use this BUT this has to be done in a VERY smart way. Like staying with only certain words.

i.e. {Red|Black|Green|Blue|Yellow|Orange|Brown|White}

Using this on other types of words are great too, like numbers, dates, gender, people's names.


2. Phrase Replacement. I typically use these for phrases that I use repetitively.

i.e. {Whatever|What ever the case may be|Yada yada|}


3. Sentence Replacement. In my opinion, this is the hardest because this requires transitional thinking. To make this a more effective technique I would suggest that you work with one sentence transitions between paragraphs.

i.e.
Paragraph 1

{The one thing I have noticed is Article Marketing is Hot when proper Backlinking is applied!|Article Marketing is equally as great as backlinking.|Article Marketing vs Backlinking: No fight they are both needed.|Article Marketing plus Backlinking equals pure success.}

Paragraph 2

You can see that it is easier to work with one sentence so all you would need to practice on here is the transitions from Paragraph 1 to your spinable sentences and then on to Paragraph 2.

In my opinion, then you can move on to two sentences in a paragraph and then top it out at three spinable sentences in a paragraph. Doing more than thrre becomes a nightmare. There really is not limit to the number of sentences in a paragraph but it just becomes a managing issue at that point. Remember, work smart.


4. Paragraph Replacement. This one is the easiest. The only thing you need to practice is the transitions between all of the paragraphs between each other. But do not think you can just create 5 new articles with 5 paragraphs and then setup 5 sets of paragraph replacements. If you do then you will be setting yourself up for potential failure.

Again, transitional thinking. All of the paragraphs that you will be using in the Para-1 Spins need to flow into all of the paragraphs in Para-2 Spins. And the same for the Paragraphs in Para-2 Spins into the paragraphs in the Para-3 Spins. Repeating until all paragraphs replacement sections are done.


Finally, What if you combined all of these? Now that would be powerful. Depending on the software that you are using you may have that ability.

But remember...Transition, Transition, and Transition. That is the REAL key. Make your Spins as fluid and smooth as possible.


Bonus!
Yes, words, phrases, sentences and even paragraphs can be spun. But there are a couple of other items that can be spun as well.

1. HTML - I'm serious. I've done it. <table>, <div>, <image>, and shhhhh <title>

2. BIO boxes - We worry about the content. But sometimes maybe we need to just focus on the BIO/Author box.

3. BackLinks - If you had an article that converts well and was being picked up by many other sites then if you had text links that were changing then you COULD be picking up some extra fire power rather than just having one phrase associated in that backlink.


This is my final thought.

If you don't practice and I mean practice. Then you will not be very good at this.

I started out using David Watson's Website Content Wizard (don't buy this - I can get on my HUGE WHITE HORSE about this product). It was good but required you to generate your own thesaurus for word replacement. Content Composer came out next and it was pretty good and I learned sentence and paragraph replacement. I finally landed on PAR - Power Article Rewriter. I used this to hone my transitions.

The better you get at this the more uniqueness between articles you will acheive.

Good Luck!

It works as long as you get your uniqueness up. I shoot for at least 30%.

It may work if your pupose is to get some link through posting articles as some article directories will allow it to submit (not sure about ezine it may hardly allow it) but original is always original and works better.

I think one of the best ways to spin is to have a human do it. You can get them done the right way. It may take a bit longer, but its still worth the time. You just have to find the right person to do it.

Ya know, I spent an hour or more researching James' stuff. Seems to me, with a few IQ points, if you are interested in back-links, article marketing or IM in general... pretty good deal if the spinner is a quarter what he says it is!
(though I do hate his videos. LOL. Guess that is part of the charm, huh?)