articles quality

I doubt it. People use spinning software and they enter their own words to switch around.

I don't think so.

Isn't that the point of spinning an article? To make sure that it DOES pass copyscape and is NOT similar to other articles?

I don't know if there is a way to check if it's spun, but if you aren't happy with the quality then ask for them to be rewritten or for a refund.

And don't use that particular service again

Send them back, easy as that. Then ask yourself if you would write a quality article for the price you paid for it.

Good luck,

Sam

Yeah, not many people do it manually anymore. What generally happens is they slap together many different articles on the one subject and spin them. I use local people now to outsource about 200 articles a month. Works a lot better and they are ALL 100% original as well.

There is a difference between "original" and "unique" articles.

Also, Copyscape is very easy to "pass" as the writer/spinner only needs to change (or misspell) every 4th word and/or use an article that isn't indexed in Google.

You can also use plagium.com to see if you get any better results.

If you can somewhat reverse engineer the "spinning" and then use plagium.com, even better to see the original source.

No, I do not at the moment know any application which can do this other than Copyscape (if the content is poorly spun)... Hmmm... Software can be programmed to check the uniqueness percentage of a written material against all written materials published on the Internet, provided those materials are accessible to the Google and Yahoo API among other publicly and privately (situation dependent) accessible databases... Then for the programmer and some users to test it and come up with a "grading scale", based on certain percentage ranges, to inform users about what most likely has been spun or uniquely written from scratch... Though programmers of content spinners would surely try to find ways to improve their products, so it'll be a constant development battle.

As for quality, I suggest initially informing your offshore colleagues about your exact target audience and the purpose of the content for the reader as well as the author, in this case: Your purpose for the content. Your purpose is most likely to drive traffic to your site, by funneling viewers from a well trafficked site frequented by your target viewers to your sites, though those sites may have certain publication rules needed to be adhered to, so do mention those as well. Or, if your purpose is for those articles to be posted on your site and offer useful information and advice to your target viewers, define "useful", "updated" and "helpful" to your offshore colleagues. Do you want your content to establish yourself as a friendly expert source of information and advice helpful to your target audience? What would be "helpful" info and advice? Do you want your target audience to be entertained while learning about info and advice they can use for the things in their lives relevant to your topics? What would be "entertaining" for them? Do you have writing tones and styles in mind? Finally, do you trust your offshore colleagues enough to ask them to know these things on their own?

It's possible that the articles were spun, or they were done by someone who merely rewrites other articles found on the web to make it appear original. Do you think you received the level of quality that you paid for? Outsourcing tends to follow the idea of "you get what you pay for..."

...and, THIS is why I write my own content, and don't outsource article writing. ...but, hey, that's just me....