Is article spinning dangerous? (Long-term viability)

If you do it write and in detail then you are fine.

IMO, yes it will. I'm WAY too skeptical of it, even if it works, to get involved in it, and the only article spinning I will ever do is manually rewriting my own articles. It doesn't take long and it works far better than machine-made work.

Please excuse the observation that most successful article marketers don't actually care what the answer to this question is, because they know that spinning has no benefits for their businesses anyway, and that the benefits claimed for it (typically by people selling spinning software/services) can equally be achieved without it, so it just isn't relevant to them.

But I think it's fair to say that this thread answers your question as well as it can ever be answered here, anyway.

Yep, spinning is bad. It does not show you love your site. Google does not like people who are not passionate about their businesses.

Good, I'm glad to get that feedback and confirmation. I have clients doing this and I was torn between with either helping them improve their SEO from it by spinning keywords into links, or strongly advising against it.

Alexa, I'm going to send you a private PM.

I'm not selling any "spinning" services but test it yourself and see.

If you're goal is improving SEO rankings then it can help improve your rankings.

My SEO strategy isn't centered around spinning (or even article marketing) but until it stops working (and it hasn't stopped working) I'm not sure why people debate this.

It's like debating the output of a math equation. 2+2 is always 4.

Pick a keyword you're ranking for, find a good service that will write/spin and distribute the article for you and measure your improvement.

Will Google penalilze your site? Of course not. If that were the case - you could bring down your competition by simply having nasty links point back to them.

Google is a big company and they're probably not going to give a flip about your niche blog. There anti-spam efforts and manual site reviews are saved for people with truly evil intentions.

If you're marketing a bogus cancer cure online and ranking #1 for "cure for cancer" you'll get their attention.

If you're marketing the Paleo Recipe cookbook off of ClickBank (and spinning articles or paying for links) I doubt they give a damn about you.

And as sophisticated as Google is they really can't track everything like you think they can.

Scotland Yard crackdown exposes Google's flaws | Econsultancy

I think it depends on how it fits in your strategy and what the quality looks like. I've looked at the odd spinning software just out of curiosity and the results were usually pretty bad, the process convoluted and I thought that in the time taken to "fix" the article I could've written a new one -

HOWEVER before I get over critical - it all depends on how much its been spun (how different), what your using it for and where your going to put it. Rather than think of Google as one of the posters above has intimated, think about users of the content - what value is it adding - if its some crappy piece of poorly constructed text - is it really adding the value you want? (yes I know a link is a link but ask yourself would YOU host the spun article? for example).

I'm assuming your spinning articles for links? You could always look to repurpose your existing original content to do the same thing.... i.e.
* Turn an article into a video (keeps the content the same but just uses it in a different way) -
* Use bits of the article as the basis for a counter argument on a 2nd article (where because your using carefully snippited bits of the original you have to write less!).
* Use your article as the basis for a press release etc.

Repurposing content can be really powerful, achieve what your targeting while keeping the value add for your community/users relatively high.

I am using a semi-automated software to do the spinning and I can say that I did not have any problems until now.

Much like with Annie, you would have to be careful on how you do it...I don't personally

possibly because I'm old fashion...but it definitely can work if you work it.

What is everyone's main goal here?

To genuinely help others and provide value?...or just to make money? :-/

I do not have the time nor the energy to get into this debate again, but you can find what I think about the subject here...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...uestion-4.html

Here is an interesting truth... The vast majority of the time, the threads tone will sway towards the opinions of the poster with the biggest personality. Alexa knows that and responds to EVERY thread regrading this subject, with her negative view on it. And she obviously has a big personality. So...

Shannon

PS - I am too busy to debate this subject again, and that is the only reason I will not be replying to Alexas' well written rebuttal.

My stance against spinning is simple, and it's similar to Alexa's stance, from what I can see.

I've asked this many times here, and have yet to receive a response:

IF spinning is GOOD, why this?:
Pandalized: Websites Negatively Impacted by Google's Panda Algorithm Change.

On much closer examination, many (most, if not ALL) of these sites were hammered with spun content. The blame, I believe, is two-fold: writers hammered the sites with poorly spun content, while the sites themselves had inadequate, or nearly inexistent controls in place to safeguard from it.

So, IF there is a RIGHT way to do spinning....why do affiliates of spinning software seem to have little interest in teaching people how to do it the RIGHT way? Is it all about just making money off of the sale of it being an 'easy' way to do internet marketing, even at the expense of other's businesses (remember, when you hammer a site like, say, Ezine Articles, THAT is someone's business as well...)

It baffles me when I hear advocates of spinning say they'd never touch their OWN site with their spun content, however, they'd be more than willing to hammer another person's site with it?

If it's just a matter of doing spinning the "right" way....what does this consist of? and why is it not being taught better?

I know some who earn thousands of dollars a month selling article spinning software. Some of those won't even use the software themselves.

It's easy to justify something when so much profit is tied into it.

Again, some I've questioned think I'm totally off base when I show those charts of site's being absolutely smashed by Google....they think that spinning has nothing to do with that at all...

Needless to say, I disagree entirely....

in my opinion better original content, because the return to yourself. whether you like to visit the web site content is the same with other sites. try to give the best for your visitor, so they come back again so that your site rank better in google.

When y'all talk about manually rewriting your articles to submit to directories, are y'all talking about using something like Magic Article Rewriter? I ask this, because I'm thinking about getting this myself.

I won't lie and say I've read this whole thread, but here's how I look at it: I have enough to do each day without giving myself extra work. Does ESPN spin articles? Facebook? Google? Yahoo? They seem to do ok in the rankings. Save your time and energy :-) No need to spin, regardless of whether it hurts or not.