To Spin or Not to Spin Articles.

How about populating your website with relevant content offering excellent benefits written in a style, packaged in ways and injected with your own expertise and personality not found elsewhere, before having it published as unique content by webmasters of authority websites with contextually relevant, top ranking pages in Google for your target keywords, heavily trafficked by people interested in specific topics and sub topics relevant to your website content, products and services?

I will prefer the method number 2 we after the quality and not the quantity.

Combination of both will get you results.

Create unique article and post it on your own website and then create a semi-automatic spin version that has a new last sentence for each paragraph, unique style elements and different paragraph layout for each version and then just distribute it to as many top sites as you can - better web 2.0 site.

I prefer the first one. The second one used to be a great way of getting backlinks for SEO, but most spinners just throw out a lot of junk. I prefer to write a few good articles and work with them rather than having too many junky articles.

Exactly like PeterGarety said.

Do both.. in a balanced manner. Post SEO-optimized content on your site, do social bookmarking, promote from social media and then get to Articles Marketing. Spun articles are fine, as long as they're making sense and have enough uniqueness. Good content is the key, IMHO.

I know the spun articles in non-reputable directories are no longer having with SEO. But they generate traffic?
Also does submitting the same article submitted to multiple sites have a negative or positive effect?

If you have a long, slow, careful read through this fine three-page thread, which contains the last few days' discussions of exactly the question you're thinking about, you'll see my experience and that of many other professional article marketers.

It may even be particularly interesting for you, because almost all of them are very different indeed from the opinions given so far in this thread.

I think this shorter thread, also very recent/current, will also be very helpful to you.

You'll get a wide range of views, in those threads - and will be able to see them for what they are, I think, with only minimal "interpretation".

Those are just a couple of threads from the last few days, answering your question. Of course there are 100 others, just the same: playing around with the forum's "Search" function will help you to find more of them.

Like many now-successful article marketers (in contrast to the "article directory marketers" some of whom are still - albeit decreasingly - trying to use spinning), I have enough experience of spinning and mass-submission to have clearly-formed and clearly-analysed reasons for abandoning it.

Sadly, those with financial interests of their own in promoting spinning software, perhaps because their income depends on it, are traditionally quick to denigrate the opinions of those of us making our livings from article marketing, sometimes even to the point of trying to dissuade others from reading objective threads in which a wide range of opinion from successful marketers emerges. But according to some of the people promoting spinning/submission software/services, there can be "problems" with threads in which successful marketers with experience of both spinning and not spinning compare the two.

I'm sure you're perceptive and realistic enough to see through that.

Its a good idea to spin article into multiple versions. It is a good process to get quality backlinks.

@ Kurt

As a former spinner, I can safely say that unless you have your own blog network, spinning for back-links is a waste of time. In fact, I'd argue that relying on SEO for your income is a waste of time as well.

Quality syndicated content for the win!

Chris

In my opnion, Spin articles should submit to Blog networks where as unspun articles should submit to top article directories.. (Syndication)

Hmmmmm....

Fill the internet up with quality content that provides value or junk it up with a bunch of useless, misspelled crap that wastes everyone's time?

Tough one.

In my experience, the key to successful spinning is quality writing and quality information.

Most will not go to the trouble, but I tend to spend considerable time and effort making sure my spun articles read very well, and contain good information, and not always the exact same information.

The problem with spinners is not that they can't be useful, but that most use them to produce crap. A spinner can be very helpful if you maintain an eye for quality and are willing to take the time to spin them right, and quality spun articles can be helpful with offsite SEO providing that they are not on some crap network, but on quality sites.

This does, of course, increase the time and effort spent and cut down on the number of articles one can produce in a reasonable amount of time. Some might not call it spinning at all ... but I'm sure you get my drift.

I have been known to spin an article or two :-)

Didn't expect that from someone always jumping on the quality wagon .. did you? Don't judge .. just yet.

I set myself up pretty well as a content marketer. I have older blogs that are sitting number one on G for keywords that are bringing in over 4000 visitors a day as well as a combination of minor keywords that total over 12000 unique visitors a day. All traffic is organic or maybe I should say none of it is paid traffic.

5 of the blogs I own either meet or exceed this criteria. Only one of those blogs is in the IM arena. The blog is not in my sig and it will never be for the fact .. I run all my older blogs under pen names and I use my real name here.

Some time back I realized I needed to control as much of the promotional process as possible. This meant building my own blog network and up until I pissed the junk spinning crowd off and they hacked me .. I had a rather quick indexing article directory.

This is how I ran my promotions

One original article for a specific keyword on the blog.

I would then manually rewrite that article and place it on my article directory which purposely had no ads or anything else that let the link juice wither. A series of links from this article pointed to my blog article that coincided with the same keyword.

Another rewrite was constructed manually and placed as is, unspun, on all of the blogs in my network that was relevant to the keyword chosen. This usually came up to around 100 of the blogs. These all pointed to the main blog article.

Now I take any of the rewrites and place them in my spinning software. This is where many who spin mess up. It takes me longer to make the original spin copy than it does to write and rewrite the first three originals.

Contrary to popular belief .. there are actually readers at some of the 2500 directories I will be sending these spun versions to. I want these spun versions to be as high of quality as possible. A rule of thumb for me .. if the spun version is not something I would put on my own money blog .. it doesn't get syndicated.

I only need 30 spins for my purpose of this actual leg of the promotion but normally will spin 100 so I have enough to make pdf, article to video, and other promotions that require content.

I make sure my 30 spins have as unique as possible beginning and ending paragraphs. These are then placed in my syndication bot .. one article a day for 30 days .. sent out to 2500 directories.

These links are not sent to my money blog but rather the main directory. This directory acts as a buffer. The directory article acts as a mega link that will carry more weight than all of the 2500 weaker links if sent to the money blog separately.

An article directory can handle a lot of links coming to it at one time for the fact ... the directory owner has no way of making it's members not use various different backlinking methods .

In other words, content based backlinks, comment links, or profile links, sent to the article directory, does not hurt the directory for the fact the owner had no control over the members. The money blog gets the power of the directory links without the worry of the lesser links dying, being deindexed, or any other slap from G.


In 30 days ... 75,000 backlinks (in theory) sent to a directory that passes all that juice to the money blog.

The deal is .. The money blog article is original .. the main article directory article is original .. the first syndication article is original .. the spun articles are very legible and not something I would be embarrassed for someone to read.

There is a place for spinning if done properly.

I would go with option 2. That's coz I'm pretty selfish with my articles. I want them to make me money. Not get 30% of the traffic from one listing and the rest making revenue for sites like EZA. So I prefer to do the spin when it comes to marketing.

I would manually spin though, so it's not garbage and then mass distribute them. Not only for the backlinks but by manually spinning, you control what your readers see. Regardless which version they land on.

When I used to be involved in marketing before going into writing I would do the spins, but 1 or 2 paragraphs would have different topics discussed. So if it was a tips article then for 3 tips I would include about 15 tips just to be sure that the information would be different for as many articles going out.

That's just my opinion though. I've never been a huge fan of EZA or giving exclusive rights to an article directory. Think Buzzle was another one I stopped using for that reason a while back.

Robbie

I think that spinning articles over and over is not really necessary. For them to be spun and remain readable, they need to be hand-spun (retyped) which takes time, or money if you want a writer to do it for you. Is it worth it for 1 or 2 backlinks per spin?

You could instead commit that time to gaining much quicker backlinks, and more importantly, fresh content. 100 unique articles is better than 10 unique articles with 10 spins each, in my opinion.

If I were you I'd focus on creating unique content, and instead of spinning any of it, use that time to just keep creating new content and working on your brand. You can then use social media to promote yourself, as well as SEO.

I find that a lot of article marketers are all about a systematic approach. If you focus more on the value you're offering in your unique content, you're going to end up being a lot more successful.

Some things I'd recommend doing instead of spinning articles:

* Guest blogging
* Write further unique content for your site/blog
* Submit your post links through social media and bookmarking sites
* Comment on relevant posts on other blogs
* Create video versions of your existing articles and submit them to top video sharing sites (youtube, metacafe, vimeo, etc - doesn't need to be 'spun'!)

Best of luck my friend.

SEO need fresh content.absouloutly if you want to use web2.0 to blast your article,mybe you have to spin the article

One of the major problems with people's concept of spun articles is the fact that they believe that all seeds spit out gibberish.

This is undoubtedly true for anyone here who has tried it here, barring only a few with enough experience.

What many do not realize is that they read spun articles all of the time in all article directories, even EZA, but their editors don't even know any better and don't even pick up on the fact that they are spun.

All editors "say" they do not allow spins, but in reality, they only throw out the obvious ones that they "pick up on".

For most Warriors, spinning simply will not work. If you have to ask "will it work", then it will not for you.

If that is the case, then don't waste your time.

For those who know how to do it properly, they do not waste time with article directories.

All top seeds submit to private networks and they sell their services for thousands per month per client.

Does this mean that backlinking does not increase your search ranking? Because that is what I was planning to do to get my site ranked higher.. Please can someone confirm this?!

For submission to article directories you should not ideally spin and use original articles. But in case of submission to social bookmarking sites it is okay to submit spun off articles. But always prefer original work to spun off staff.

I still like option 2. There`s a huge difference if someone just clicks on autospin or manually creates 100s of human readable spun articles with backlinks pointing to a money site or social site. At least 70% uniqueness should be enough to get most of the spun articles indexed and obtain link juice from them. The key here is to make the spun versions as readable as possible, just like the main article.

number 1 is the way to go to build a business.

#2 probably still works to some degree, but google and others will keep working on that to the disappointment of many "professional" internet marketers who spam content. hope that was sarcastic enough to make the point that i hate spam in any form...and article spinning is spamming the web.

IMHO, Back to topic there is no substitute for option No1. Fresh quality content will never bite you on the backside.

Option No.2 is practical and viable assuming you have control of the input and the output, i.e., no robotic generation of content.

When I do spin an article, I rewrite each paragraph sentence by sentence. I make sure I have at least five paragraphs. I make at least two new sentences making a total of three versions, the original plus two new ones.

With three versions of five paragraphs you have 243 variations to choose from. Many of those will be 70% or better unique.

Carlos

Keep spinning for the best result.

Unique content is king in my book.

From my experience, the amount of time you spend editing the gibberish generated from an article spinner, it takes almost the same amount of time for me to write a new and unique article.

There's something to be said about the human touch and personality of unique content.

In the long run, I feel it's best to stay away from robotic content that comes from article spinners.

To spin or not to spin can be quite subjective, (as you can see from the posts in this thread) but my preferences pull me towards the camp of the non-spinners.

Personally it would be a good idea to spin articles, especially manually, always good to have that option to test unspinned and spinned to see which does better

Submitting to article directories is still a good idea but only submit a few to each directory because after a few you lose any link juice.

So submit to as many directories as you can. People will pick up your articles if they're good and you'll get the backlinks from them as well.

I have a lot of articles out there and people are linking to my site that I don't even know and every day I find new backlinks. It helps!

If you have eBooks to sell use the directory ideamarketers.com - they let you post your eBooks for free and the articles you submit there are posted immediately. They also have a lot of link juice with Bing.

It is still best to have original articles. Google is very strict now. You might hurt your site if you don't have original content.

I still shreak when I see these threads.

Google has always wanted good content not jibberish written by your 5 year old cousin.

There you go, answered your question in one sentence.

The first one mentioned is better and has proven to be useful to get a good ranking however i am not sure about the effectiveness of the second one that you mentioned.

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I'm sure you meant no offence. RV tends to be a bit touchy from the posts I have read...

So who else thinks this gets repetitive? lol

Spinning articles worked great in 2006, but Google has long since caught on. 99% of the directories that accept spun content are buried so deep in the rankings now (if they're even still indexed at all) that their backlinks are completely worthless. And you certainly aren't going to get any direct traffic from these submissions.

Post unique articles on your own site or blog, then post other unique articles to the reputable directories like EZA and GoArticles which link back to your original articles. That is how you get traffic and sales from article marketing.

It sucks, but shortcuts are quickly becoming a thing of the past in this business.

so far i have only been doing option 1 for about 2 months, and it got me ranked on #1 for my keyword "poker 32x"

been reading up on fellow warriors advice and it seems like the traffic we get may not be of good quality and may not be long term. How about submitting articles to document sharing sites and article submission sites that are well known like E-zine and articlebase?

do they give good traffic? and is the traffic going to be long term? or are the articles simply going to not show after some time? perhaps writing consistently can help to build up the rank and traffic?

i also build backlinks with spun articles and i think its doing fine so far. The rank seems to improve without me doing anything.

Thanks in advance for fellow warriors who could help out