What's the difference between article "spinning" & aricle "rewriting"?

Those 2 terms are often used pretty loosely, but I think generally speaking Dhira's definition is pretty accurate.

Article spinning usually involves taking extra time up front to write several variations of individual phrases or sentences in each article. Once you do that, a good article spinning program can take all that content and output several unique article variations.

On the other hand, Article rewriting generally means rewriting 1 article at a time (manually). Which is much faster than "spinning", if you only need 1 or 2 variations of each article.

Are you talking program or live person. If its a program would you care to share the name of it so we can all become rich jerks.

God bless

If you are using an article spinning software, while you will be able to produce articles at a faster pace, you will find that they don't always make sense. Actually rewriting the article yourself or having someone else rewrite them, allows for much more creativity and sentences that actually make sense. It will of course take longer to rewrite the articles, but the end product is normally much better.

nicely post, well written, and completely wrong.

It depends on the quality of the rewritten article. Otherwise what you are predicting is that no two different people will ever be able to write about the same topic without one of them getting slapped, which is obviously silly.

Also wrong - the MFA bleat - lots of people still make lots of money from them. Me, for example. And apart from forums, I never type a darned word. What you fail to understand (although you obviously have SOME understanding of search engine technology) is that it's a *war*.

It's an evolutionary struggle between 2 camps, both of whom need to take resource from a single supply. Unfortunately, the objectives of the 2 camps are mutually exclusive, which is why there will never be 'peace'. What there WILL be, is people coining it using tools.

Such as article rewriters.

edit - I also have to pick you up on your charming if naive misunderstanding of what most people using article spinners do. They DON'T spin an entire article into something that could in theory be analyzed down into a semantic footprint. Most of them don't even 'spin' lots of versions. There's no need - the web is chock full of content that can be repurposed. What they actually do is, they 'wrangle' stuff - extract portions from articles, usually automatically, and create something completely new, which is why technology will NEVER be able to trap and dedupe them. THEY AREN'T DUPES, either lexically or semantically. Ferchrissakes, I've come across stuff that I've written, that I've also wrangled, and the only way *I've been able to identify my own article* is because I cunningly embedded madeupwords/keywords/typos in them so I can track them.

If the human writer of the article can't do it, neither can a bot. But you just keep on pumping out those articles, boy. You provide the raw materials the rest of us use to make money. Thanks!

I think that software and/or people have maligned article 'spinning' quite a bit. The definitions that people have posted above seem pretty accurate as far as what is expected out of the two terms right now in an internet marketing sense though.

Personally, to me, article spinning should be about taking a given article and actually presenting it from a different angle.

i.e. If you were to have an article titled 'Why There Are Doubts About the Global Warming Phenomena', you could spin it into two other articles, one maybe being a expose-type factual piece titled 'Global Warming: The Untold Facts that Greenies Don't Want You To Know' and the other maybe even 'Is it Worth the Effort Going Green When Global Warming is Not Proven?'

Those were just off the top of my head, but the facts for both the original and the secondary two would be almost identical. All that would really vary is the angle and tone of the articles.

But yeah, most definitely nowadays when people say they are spinning an article it is in reference to software-spinning or cracking out a thesaurus and replacing words.

-Vish.