Spinning - why we are doing it wrong ?

Since when has everyone been using spun articles for backlinks? What a huge and inaccurate generalisation.

I certainly haven't, which is why I won't comment on the rest of your post.

I remember one post from the SEO Moz blog which has an example of a spun title. It made me laugh because it was really out of this world. Some people are using spinners and think that whatever comes out would be the best possible content that one can use. That example I was talking about: Salt Lake City -> Sodium Body of Water Town.

Oh, and I agree with Richard. Not ALL people use spun articles for their link building efforts.

I would rather spend time and effort writing original articles. Yes, it will only take a few minutes to spin articles and voila! you already have an "article" that you can post on your site. But what happens to the grammar, content, and content? Sacrificed.

Apart from the growing minority of us who understand that the linkjuice value of any given backlink, on any given page of the web, has absolutely nothing to do with whether the content to which it's attached has been "spun". :rolleyes:

Once you understand the difference between "duplicate content" and "syndicated content", and the difference between "original content" and "unique content", it becomes easy to appreciate that you don't need to use spun articles "for building backlinks", and that it doesn't actually help you in any way to spin them.

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If you are spinning, you are spamming, and eventually you will be penalized. If a human can't read it and won't benefit from it then you will not gain from it in the long term.

With a good spin you can change the structure and length of the text.

Words have specific meanings. When a real writer uses a specific word he or she often takes a lot of time to select that word. No other word will do. No other even comes close to conveying the message the writer intends.

There may or may not be synonyms for that word but it doesn't matter. When someone decides they want to manually rewrite or digitally spin something it or s/he plugs in various words with similar meanings. Many people calling themselves writers along with the various software programs out there designed to substitute words don't and never can do justice with their word substitutions. Spun and rewritten articles are NEVER as good or even as close to as good as the originals. The only way to get something as good as the original is for a qualified writer to write something unique and original from scratch.

But advocates of spinning don't care because they aren't writing for people they're most often writing for software. Isn't that nice? Human robots and actual software writing for software. This is the real problem because all of this "manufactured" content is almost literally useless to people who go online to actually learn stuff. That's the problem with spinning and rewriting by people who don't know or care about what they're doing.

But selfish people continue to litter the Internet with spun junk for the almighty backlink not caring that they leave nothing good behind. They are in it only for themselves.

The good news is that Google and other SEs are getting hip to this and penalizing the hacks and the spinners. Why are they doing this? So people who come online to actually get real information have a real chance of coming away with real information. I'm all for it.

Ack, the dilemma of wanting to keep your methods close to your chest whilst wanting to be a helpful WF member!

Ok, I'd like to clear things up by saying the utilisation of spun/rewritten/magically transformed (hey, why not?) articles is not something I do on even a semi-regular basis.

As a scenario that may or may not have happened in the past, say you have a deep-content authority site that is ranking in the top spots on G for your desired term(s). If, say, you were fed up of losing traffic to the other sites in the top spots, you may deem it appropriate to create a new site (hosted of course on a completely seperate server).

Seeing as you already have a site filled with content that Google clearly likes, and that discusses most everything possible within the niche, writing a bunch of new articles discussing the same things from scratch doesn't appeal to you.

Instead, you feed your articles into spinning software, and come up with 4/5 different variations of each paragraph, sentence, and word (where possible.. of course leaving the KWs intact). You hit the spin button and bang, you have 10 quality articles that Google will love ready to go. Rinse and repeat with different seed articles and you have a ton of content for your new site. Hey, there's some spill over so maybe you decide to set up another website to grab other front page spots?

Because, done properly, and if you have call for it, this method can turn out 10 (perhaps more if you're willing to do more editing) unique articles.

Look, I get that some people won't like or appreciate my appreciation of spinning for some purposes. (and I TOTALLY get the hate directed towards articles that are stolen and poorly spun, it's deserved) That said, I hope this post goes to explaining it to some extent.