Why do you spin articles?

Personally, I don't. I'm convinced it is a waste of time.

There will be others with a different view.

Will

I spin articles and have them distributed by services like Unique Article Wizard. I spin them manually so they're still readable. This is just link building to improve my search engine rankings. I don't get much traffic directly from these links.

IMO , spunned articles are basically for making the content unique regardless of the quality.
Unique keyword rich content +SEO = lots of organic traffic = CPA offer , adsense etc ....

Along with some of the other folks here, I also think spinning is a waste of time. Everything that I've ever seen come out of a spinner has been complete garbage. If machines were able to write as well as humans, there would be newsrooms full of robots instead of people

That being said, I'm all for rewriting articles. A little bit of extra research and some edits can give you 2 unique, quality versions of an article. I personally like to have different articles on my website than on the directories, because I want everyone who visits my site to see something new. And, manually rewriting doesn't take any longer than spinning (assuming that you take the time to fix the grammar and syntax errors that come out of a spinner)

Many people spin articles because they are submitting essentially the same article to many sources and want to keep the search engines happy by not having duplicate content. This provides additional backlinks, which hopefully helps their page ranking. Personally, I don't subscribe to this thought, and believe that fewer, quality articles, placed on high authority sites can do you far more good than a bunch of poorly crafted (spun) ones on many lower ranked sites. This seems to work better for me, anyway.

I've also found that I can write several (4 or 5) versions of an article with the same keywords/topic in about the same amount of time it took to set up the spinner for one, and the articles make much better sense than the spun ones ever did. Spinning articles mechanically is another of the "automated" processes being sold to the masses that doesn't necessarily help get the desired result, which in this case is a higher page rank in the search engines.

The majority of clients I spin for are using it for article marketing. They are trying to avoid the duplicate content thing. And if you spin deep enough you can use the articles on more than one website of your own. The spinning I do involved rewriting and spinning.

Belinda

I would stay away from spinning articles. Always write unique content. Totally fresh.

you spin an article for article submission software. then the software submits the "spinned" versions to different sites.(whichever ones are listed in the software)

ususally article spinners, spin articles for backlinks which should equal a higher ranking on google or other search engines.

there are many reasons for this as you have read and will read, but spinning can be an art form, or a waste of time. it depends how much time you have versus what you are going to use it for.

if you are using it for {backlinks|linkjiuce|linkbuilding}... you basically are considered spamming in search engines eyes... and tried and true IMers. if you are spinning to get traffic by submitting to high PR/authority sites... you need to learn how to do it properly.

most people just spin the text and not the html. if you are using it for good content in order to have someone read them, and visit your site... you need to take your time, AND it might be worthwhile to just write four or five completely new articles instead.

if you are spinning for rankings, on search engines... you are making crappy unreadable or funny sounding articles... that no one will read.

the funniest ones are the ones that had one or two language translations and then spun a few times...

if you are starting out, keep away from it until you can write a few versions of a decent article, because that's all you are really doing with spinning.

To answer the OP question. people spin articles to create more unique content for each article written. There is nothing wrong with it at all.

The important thing is to use the spinning process INTELLIGENTLY and make sure that the quality of the spun articles is as good as the original. Read though them and 'tidy' them if necessary.

The result should be like you have written multiple unique articles on the same topic. Something that the anti-spinners are doing manually anyway.

I just love all the water-walkers in this forum. Never fails to entertain. Has
nothing to do with dospin or nospin, either.


Ken

I'm with those who don't spin articles - mainly because I think they always (well usually) sound obviously spun, many of them don't make sense. I just don't like them, I prefer to rewrite articles by hand. True you can't do hundreds fast like you can with spinning, but you get better quality articles.

i spin article to make article unique

Spinning is basically for making an article unique so you will have no duplicate content. However if you are doing article marketing then I dont think it is right. Basically as a reader I'd want a fresh article for new ideas.

Others might find a spinner useful but its not accepted by everybody. If you ought to build an adsense empire from PLR articles, a bit of spinning might be useful.

Andrea

For article marketing it's not worth it.

For SEO purposes yes if you take a little more time time to do it right. But you need to have the submitters that support the spin syntax or/and subscribe to those blognetworks that allows the spin syntax. The backlinks seem to stick better when you spin it on the sentence level prior to spinning it on the synonym level AND spin the anchor text keywords as well. Takes a heck of a lot more time, but then after some minor cleaning up you can stick them on Web 2.0 sites as well. Obviously the more resources (software and subscriptions) you have the more sense it will make to spin it.

I think spun articles are a waste of time. I can see the benefit of using them for mass distribution or for link building but imo the big G and other sites will ultimately catch on and then you'll lose all that juice. I don't like the idea of building a house on a foundation of tooth picks.

Sure you could rewrite them and submit manually, but then you lose the only advantage of spun articles which is time savings.

I don't use it because half the time they are really unreadable.

I think it's a waste of time too. How many times have you seen spun articles in the top ten on Google for a keyword that actually gets traffic? I just don't think Google will see those articles as being unique enough to rank them high.

To a certain extent, I will spin some of the articles that I write (especially if there is limited information about a particular topic - sometimes you can only write so much). My "spinning" is quite different from what others will do though - it's more or less a complete rewriting - I never use the same text twice.

I have built a 30+ page website that was ultimately built from 2 articles I wrote. I then proceeded to rewrite one of those articles over 20 times. I'm talking a serious rewrite though, not changing/replacing words. This site has #1 Google rankings and makes me a nice chunk of change each month.

As a result, I do think spinning articles can work but not junk spinning - total rewrites using some of the same basic facts.

Spinning has its place. There is good spinning where you use a software program to help you create lots of article variations from a hand-spun article. Then there is icky spinning that translates an article into Swahili, then Greek, then back into English. Car owner's manuals have apparently been written this way for decades (and I quote the sticker on my Subaru fuel door "when filling fuel to the tank with the fill-gun..."). As several people have mentioned, badly spun articles are basically for increasing rank in search engines. I personally can't bring myself to stoop to that. I do occasionally use a spinning service but it takes me about 45 minutes to hand-spin an article to greater than 40 percent uniqueness. Faster than writing 10 different versions, and in some cases it makes sense to use the articles created this way.

Hi bizousoft,
I believe the basis of article spinning is to make each article that is submitted unique.
On that basis search engine will produce more results instead of only showing the article on the site with the highest page rank, in principle.

Some people do and some people don’t. I think more important than these is the strategies used to get an article out there, spinning is only one method of many.

I use SEO Linkvine to create backlinks to my sites & always spin the articles I submit up to 70 or 80% - as recommended by SEO Linkvine for best link building results, since then all the published articles are unique. The finished articles are readable, but definitely not brilliant quality (it is not difficult to spot a spun article).

Reading this thread, there seem to be a lot of Warriors here who think this spinning is pointless - so is it important to have unique articles, or do I get equal link juice from duplicate content on different sites?

In my opinion, spinning simply shows how content is the most important element of any website. I think it's not an authentic way of doing business -- it's not done with the customers needs in mind. I prefer to rewrite--it adds much more value for my customers.

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Primary reason: Having fun. Secondary reason: To show the kids, that software itself are stupid stuffs. It is actually the human that builds them counts. Tertiary reason: To see if really someone has come up with an intelligent spinning system.

What to do with the content after they are spun: Read it aloud with the kids like ha ha ha ha. Doctors say, laughter is the best medicine.

Whenever this type of question comes up, there are lots of people who announce that it's not possible to get a nice article as a result of software. Not only is this presumption inaccurate, but you can often get a perfect article written using software. In some cases the fresh new article is better than the original. This isn't a pipe dream, but reality. You might also note that lots of replies are from people who promote his or her own article writing services or products.

There are many top marketing experts who make use of these applications correctly, and making small fortunes along the way. Will these people post in this thread? That's doubtful. They don't want people to uncover their insider secrets.

HTH

Glenn

As computing processor power increases and believe me it's going to increase soon to the point of blowing your minds, it's best to stay with original, unique content.

Why? Well if you're like me and work in the video game industry where programming the AI (artificial intelligence) of the environment and characters, you know that the SE's are going to be and are employing some amazing new technology that will be easier and easier to tailor one's searches. It will eventually kill the hack, bloated website traffic snagging market for it will be identified as lacking intrinsic value to the search.

You're seeing some of it now with geo targeting. Well think of geo targetting to the tenth power coming up.

The SE's are indexing personal data on us like never before. Soon, you may see SE's presenting answers to search queries as soon as you hit their sites.

There are far too many irrelevant sites to police so the SE's will do it for you with a gleaning process that's out of this world.

It's very complicated but trust me, the big corporations and governments want a leaner, meaner web but don't want to step on personal rights. However, to them, business comes first.

Also, just because backlinks from syndicated articles count now doesn't mean that Google can't change the rules in the future and discount them so spinning articles (not crappy ones) is a way to hedge your bets against future changes that might affect backlinks from dupe content.

One benefit of spun articles is there are some directories/sites that won't accept duplicate content. So basically you are missing backlinks from those sites.

Article marketing is a low value, bottom of the barrel
marketing activity.

People do it because they suck at marketing.

Tyrus

For me, if I wanted content, and had the extra cash, I would buy it.