Should You Use Spun Content?

Unfortunately, lots of people just hit "spin" and then publish whatever comes out - leaving behind a trail of grammar mistakes, words that don't make any contextual sense, and content that reads like some kind of Klingon spin-off language In the end, you wind up with content that sticks out like a sore thumb - and not in a good way!

I published an article on PLR over a year ago, and a few months later, some "nice" soul decided to rip it off, shove it through a spinner and publish the results (under my name... yes, "nice" indeed :rolleyes. I started off the original article by explaining that PLR stands for "Private Label Rights". Thanks to the article spinner, my explanation morphed into "Personal Label Rights".

My original tip that "PLR does not have to be expensive, but if you aim for something that costs a little bit more, you will probably get higher quality writing," suddenly had become "PLR does not have to be expensive, but if you aim some thing that charges a small bit far more, you will almost certainly get larger quality writing."

Trust me, if you're reading spun content, you'll be able to spot it!

Yeah, I've seen the spun articles where their spinner left the spin tags in. They published anyway, probably because they never looked at it, as it was on 100% auto-pilot. I see that on comments about my blog posts all the time.

Some of them are so bad, they're beyond laughable, and I got a good laugh at her example.

Yessir...

I spent the better part of my 1st five months online under the belief; the most effective way to earn good money online was through SEO and competing for that #1 slot that offers 40% of the "keyword" traffic.

While, I do not regret the knowledge, I did gain some valuable insight from learning the ropes of on-page and off-page SEO strategies, nor will I suggest forgetting about SEO altogether...

I do have an entirely different mindset, and business strategy which I am harnessing and currently implementing.

That strategy is perhaps better explained in the link below by those who are far more knowledgeable than I am. However, the statement I made above as bold and perhaps as profound as it was concerning "having ones eyes opened to the truth" was definitely inspired by this thread in particular.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...mith-myob.html

I have read too many "Horror Stories" of great marketer's waking up one day to find their reliance on "G" or the SERP's was so detrimental to their livelihood, only to lose it all due to an algorithm change, it scared me enough to seek alternate measures!

Naturally, everyone has their own version of the "Truth", but I will stand behind this statement, as I can relate to the article syndication methods, and those who have shared their insight so unselfishly with little to gain, as opposed to those 'pushing' article spinners, and this jolly green giant believe that the only way to earn is by gaming the search engines, and hoping for a fairy tale ending, or some... magic beanstalk to riches method. *Which a few may actually still succeed from, but upon closer investigation; the evidence shows more often than not, the money was from selling programs, spinners, SEO services, etc... that teach these methods or have a business specifically on selling shovels to those digging for gold.

I'll leave it at that for now, and I too will openly admit; I am NOT the expert, but if you read through the thread above, and pay close attention to Alexa, myob, Paul, John McCabe, and several others who contribute their knowledge to this subject matter, I think you'll find it hard to disprove!

Again, I still employ SEO practices, but I don't care if I rank my sites anymore. The real goal is getting "laser targeted traffic" to my niche sites, which BTW are ruled by .gov, .cdc., .edu., and some MONSTER competition that would be so unlikely I'd ever see anything close to a page 1 ranking, let alone the #1 slot!

If your targeting those 1,000 [exact] monthly searches, sure you can break the competition, but if you're in a competitive market, and your keyword returns xx,xxx,xxx,xxx results with 350k [exact] keyword searches, what path would you choose?


I hope that helps!

All the Best,

Art