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My answer: Because writing a high quality article has a lot to do with a combination of many things. Here are just three that come to mind...

1. Your Thesis: Your Main Idea
2. General Knowledge of Your Intended Topic.
3. General Knowledge on How to Write an Article.

Your Thesis: Your Main Idea
Before putting any thoughts into words, think about your thesis or the "main idea" of what you are trying to say. This way you are not all over the place, you have a thought-structure on how everything is going to be laid out and most importantly, it helps bring everything into FOCUS. If you need to jot down a few notes to be reminded of ideas, subheads, snippets, then great.

General knowledge of your intended topic
In order to write a quality article in a comfortable amount of time, one should know enough about a topic to structure an article on the fly.

If this is not possible, then take the time to do some modest research on your topic. With all the tools on the net these days, it should only take around 15-30 minutes (or less), which is way less time it takes to do an adequate "spin and edit" job for a good, quality article (at least for me, that is).

General knowledge on how to write an article
A well-written article should be just that... If one struggles with writing, I suggest going to a book store or library and finding literature on how to write articles or research papers. follow the basic guidelines and syntax and there shouldn't be a problem.

If you are still stuck, go to an article website and see how top writers structure their articles. This will give you a good understanding on how everything should be structured. The reason for good structuring is so real people (not just search engines) can have a complete understanding of your thoughts on your intended subject.

My experiences with article writing (for what it's worth)...
When I decided I was going to start writing articles a few years ago, I actually had to do some research on how to write articles, because my educational experiences SUCKED when I was growing up. I hated school and couldn't wait to get home and play (some things never change).

When I want a super, high-quality, unique article, I write the article from scratch.

I've tried all the spinners, including "the best spinner" and it takes all the fun out of writing for me.

On the few times that I have tried using spinners, it takes more time editing everything than it takes to write a genuine article from start to finish.

For me, the quality between spinner and unique content doesn't even come close in comparison. Most of the spinner stuff I've tried is diluted and loses credibility... sometimes it even looks as though someone unfamiliar with the English language has written the article.

The biggest benefit of writing fresh content from scratch is that everything is unique and Google will love your stuff.

So, there's my answer to the question of "why article writing with a spinner is so slow and cumbersome".

I personally outsource my article rewriting on oDesk. I receive good quality rewrites for $1-$2 each.

so what you are saying is people get jibberish, and then spin that jibberish until it is a great pile of the worlds jibberish. Correct. I still do not know why people do this.

Hey! did you spin an article and use that as your post

ahhhh, now I get it, ya sneaky one! Good job! :p:p:p

I would prefer 1 article, 1 very high quality article of 1,000 to 1,500 words long, syndicated to 200 authority sites in my niche (not a rhetorical answer).

I would prefer this because I would choose the 200 sites very carefully for their authority basis and readership numbers. From that one article, which of course would be published and indexed on my own site first, I would receive tens of thousands of visitors, which would result in many signups to my list, which in turn would result in many, many sales of the product I would be promoting.

That 1 article would take me perhaps, three or four hours, or even a whole day, to write. If each of the 200 sites could send me (and let's keep the figures low here) just 100 visitors each on average, that would be 20,000 visitors to my site from my 1 article. Let's say I can convert those visitors to my signup box at the low rate of 3%, that's 600 signups, and no doubt a few sales too.

Over time I could send autoresponder messages to those 600 on my list and get many future sales - forever. Then, of course, I'd repeat the exercise all over again, writing a new article, which would take me a day at most to write.

The alternative scenario that you put forward would require the writing of 200 articles, each one submitted to just one site. That's a LOT of work, and the return on investment would not be worth it.

John.

I would not use the "average" spun article on ANY site where i expect an audience or even remotely to any site with authority.

But that being said, it *is* possible to make/spin articles which look very legit and they don't read any worse than any other article. It's just a matter of carefully selecting the right synonyms and sentence alternatives and to see that the article "flows" and makes sense no matter how it is spun.

As an interesting "experiment"..i am always playing with the thought to make that one "uber spun" article and want to make a whole site based on that one article and try to rank it in Google

It would be some monster article covering some subject, each sentence with 10 or more variations plus word synonyms...and then from that one article you dynamically spin new content and fill your site with it every time you need new content. I am pretty sure that would work

I think there are 2 different things under discussion here

i) The OP originally talked about rewriting a single article using spinning tools. TO me the only way to rewrite a single article is to do it manually sentence by sentence or paragraph by paragraph. There are a few tools that help you do this. Mark Hess released a Wordpress plugin as a WSO a few weeks ago which broke down your post, encouraged you to rewrite each sentence and then put it back together again. I think Content Mania by Incansoft does something similar, but essentially for a single article rewrite I would probably just do it manually every time

Incidentally I did try WordFlood for a while which is a single article rewriter and found it much quicker to do the whole thing manually

ii) Spinning to produce multiple articles from a single article is a different kettle of fish (British expression!). So if you want to submit the same article all over the place but worded differently this is where you would use an article spinner. Of course there are arguments (eloquently put forward by John Coutts) against this approach as well but essentially this is(to my mind) where you would use a spinner.

I can't agree with that. Spun articles have no place with me - ever.

John.

What are the odds that someone is even going to make it to your links, when you've published something sub-par? Sure, there are people out there who swear that they can use their spinners to create readable content - and it only takes them 3 days to do it! Personally, I'd rather use my brain and spend 20 minutes rewriting an article that actually flows properly, makes sense, and provides valuable information :rolleyes:


With all due respect, which "sites with good authority" are accepting spun articles? Sure, you might be able to get them posted on a few article directories, but then you're only getting PR0, non-relevant links.


But how long is that taking you? Why not just skip the brackets and the syntax and rewrite it yourself? It would be so much faster :confused:

So, just out of curiosity, what are the names of the other 7 variations of this course that I assume exist, catering to different learning styles?