Spinning and then submitting articles
I have a question about Article Spinning & Submitting.
I want to do this the right way. That is, in a way that's not going to get me banned from any of the directories AND in a way that provides real, useful content to searchers.
And, yes, while I'm interested in spinning articles to kind of "game" the search engines by avoiding the dupe-content filters, I'm definitely NOT interested in churning out thousands of garbage articles that read as if they were written by a drunken racoon brought up in Mumbai... and then submitting them all over the web willy-nilly.
Actually, I'm doing it primarily for the purpose of generating traffic, to which some people might ask "Well, who cares about spinning? Just submit to as many directories as you can!"
But to my mind, I think it's a bit daft to pass up the opportunity of generating some one-way backlinks from a bunch of high PR sites (by giving them all "different" articles--which are then not subject to the duplicate content filter).
All of the article marketing stuff I've read mentions the power of articles for both SEO and traffic purposes, but doesn't really tell you how to MAXIMIZE both of these benefits at the same time.
I think the solution is to spin an article, and then submit each spun version to a different directory. Some directories are given more weight than others by SEs but you're still getting a bitta juice at least.
And then these directories/hubs plus all the publishers who pick up your articles from them then do the traffic-building work.
Seems kinda elementary, and is obviously not going to be hot news to a lot of Warriors, but I've only just worked this out. Call me a slow learner.
My main problem is HOW to do it. Hence this post...
SPINNERS
I've done quite a lot of research into spinners and the one that looks the best fit for ME appears to be Power Article Rewriter. I haven't used it yet, though, but I watched the video and it looks like the sort of thing I'm after.
I also like ExRat's suggestion of using it with Dragon Naturally Speaking (Great tip, dude!)
I'll download the free trial and find out how much the thing costs (coz it doesn't appear to be anywhere on the sales page--My word I hate that tactic! If there wasn't a video showing me what it does, I would have left and come here to ask the price.)
For the record (and the benefit of other people reading this), how much is it?
Now...
How does this relate to submitting articles?
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Well, I'd like to know how you go about taking the articles you've spun and then submitting them to directories.
My understanding of traditional article submission services and software is that you load up an article and it gets submitted to all the places in that service or software's database/list.
But this is not what I want to do.
Let's take an example of what I want to do:
-- Let's say I write an article with a boat load of vocab and phrase variations throughout and I spin, say, 50 versions.
-- I read through them all and delete any that read too much like ones I've already read.
-- Let's say I'm left with 35 articles.
-- I then go through and tidy things up so that they're completely readable and there's no raccoon-ese to be had.
-- Right, now I want to submit my 35 "unique" articles to 35 different, reputable directories.
(I can then take a 36th version and submit it to the other 4 million low-grade directories via some kind of software and track what kind of traffic that brings me)
-- But I don't want to do it by hand every time I write and spin an article.
So, what are my options? (That's not a rhetorical question, btw)
I have a couple of ideas, but (a) any more suggestions, and (b) your input on the following suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
POSSIBLE SOLUTION #1: Outsource it.
I get some college kid, say, or a VA (as part of their general duties) to submit all the articles that I write in a week, in one fell swoop, to all 35 directories manually.
How long would this take? How many hours?
Then I can work out if it would be cost effective to pay someone $15 an hour to do this sort of thing week after week after week. It's not as cheap as the submission services (which work on volume, obviously), but it WILL get me the desired solution, methinks.
Any problems that you can see with this one?
POSSIBLE SOLUTION #2: Use some kind of software.
I don't really know the pros and cons of doing this, though.
Pros seem pretty singular: You save time.
What are the cons?
And what I'm really looking for is a piece of software that allows you to configure the following settings, for example:
"[article #6 title here] should be submitted to [name of directory here], [article #7 title here] should be submitted to [name of different directory here]" etcetera
I looked at Article Announcer, but I wasn't sure if it did this.
Does anyone know?
I understand that JetSubmitter does something like this, but reviews about the number of successful submissions makes me wonder. Of course, this could have more to do with the quality of the articles that people are submitting. If they've got the raccoon at the controls when they're spinning, then I'm not surprised that most of their submissions get rejected.
But I wonder how much of it--if any--has to do with the "automatic" nature of it. And I don't know that's why I'm asking. I'm not assuming anything here.
Also, does JetSubmitter have the ability to send one version to this directory, the next to the next directory, etc.?
If JetSubmitter is the service for me, I'm happy to give it a spin (no put intended). But what I've read so far hasn't been too encouraging.
Yes, I know, I could just try it myself. But I'd rather save potentially a LOT of time and ask folks here about their experience. Also, I don't want to lash out money on something that's crap or even if it's not crap, doesn't do what I'm looking for. Who does, right?
POSSIBLE SOLUTION #3: Use some kind of service
I looked at Article Marketer, but the reviews on this forum make it sound like more frustration and effort than it's worth. Also, I refuse to work with companies that have crap customer support. I don't expect people to be at my beck and call, but if they can't get back to me in a timely manner, then I'll take my business elsewhere.
I'll go with a not-quite-as-good solution and top-notch support every time. Maybe that's dumb, but it's much better for avoiding chances of a stroke due to gasket-blowing.
So please don't suggest Article Marketer to me; I'm not interested. Thanks.
[Sidenote: In one thread I read, someone asked a question along the lines of "Well, if this is the case, why do the big names still recommend them?" Answer: recurring affiliate income.
(Hey, am I being cynical again?):p]
Next... I looked at Submit Your Article, but immediately got a bad taste in my mouth because they required me to opt-in just to look at the details of their offer. Sure, I by-passed it, but I positively LOATHE this technique. It says quite a lot about a company in my opinion.
And I'm not even comparing it to a squeeze page offering a special report which then redirects you to the salespage on confirmation. That I'm fine with--providing there is actually some useful information in the free report that I've traded my email address for.
But to squeeze me just for the privilege of viewing your offer? Get outta here.
Anyway, so I read their offer and they only allow up to 8 submissions per month. And it doesn't appear to solve my problem anyway (of wanting to be able to say "This version to this directory, this other version to this other directory, etc").
It DOES have a feature called "Article Leverage", but I'm not really sure of the details. It sounds like their own in-house spinner. Is that right?
What I'm looking to do, though, is pay a one-time fee for a spinner that I can use to pre-write all my versions offline and then allocate which version goes where.
Any other manual submission services that DO do what I'm looking for (re: this version to this place, that version to that place), offer good customer contact, don't cost an arm and a leg, and allow me to submit a decent number per month?
This is a bit of an epic post with lots of questions, but I'm still a bit confused. Sorry! :confused:
I've read a bunch of stuff on article marketing, but it's usually the same "what not how" kind of information. There's a lot of good info out there about length of articles, and putting keywords in your title, and writing attention-grabbing titles, and so on, but they usually just end with
"And when you're done, submit them to the top directories in the list below".
That's fine if you want to submit the SAME article, but I don't. I want to submit the spun versions (which read just as well as the "original").
I don't mind paying for the "how" (but if I don't have to, that's the proverbial no brainer, innit?)
So if there really IS a good guide out there that goes through this, feel free to post a link and I'll take a look.
But what I'm really looking for is what I've already said (and which I'll try to distill here):
A way to save time with article submissions where I can allocate Version X of an article to be submitted to Directory A, Version Y to Directory B, Version Z to Directory C, and so forth.
And I only see three broad possibilities: outsourcing it for someone to do manually, a software solution, or a submission service.
Article writing is something that a huge number of Warriors do. There must be a solution out there somewhere, right?
Any ideas?
Cheers,
TheNightOwl
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