Spinning Articles Good or Bad?

It's better than spinning them, anyway. That would mean giving article directories unique content (if you spin them well enough) - a huge mistake, for all the reasons explained throughout this thread (not a long thread and worth a good read): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...marketing.html

Yes. Unless you can find another one specific to your niche (never easy), once you submit to Ezine Articles, you probably won't get any extra benefits from submitting to any additional ones.

Be clear, though, about why you're using an article directory, and what benefits you can, and can't, get from it. Explained in this post: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post5068872

Not this.

Spinning is based on a fundamental misunderstanding.

It's a "solution to a problem that doesn't actually exist".

A solution of benefit only to people selling spinning software and services.

"Spinning" is without value. It can damage your business, but it can't help you. Everyone who actually makes a living from article marketing (rather than from supplying spinning software or services) says the same things about spinning. And there are reasons for that.

The whole thing is based on a fallacy, and a misunderstanding about what "duplicate content" and "syndicated content" mean and signify.

The value of a backlink doesn't depend on whether the content to which it's attached is "unique" or "previously published": it depends on many other things, but that isn't one of them, and Google says so openly.

For people open-minded enough to read them, the following six items explain much more, at greater length and in greater detail.

• this post explains the benefits of spinning
• the first half (or so) of this thread contains a good discussion of what you can gain from spinning articles
• the advice on this subject given by so many people throughout most of this thread has been really helpful to many people here
• on the meaning and significance of "duplicate content", in this context, this little post from expert article marketer Anne Pottinger includes direct quotations from Google's WebMaster Central Blog on the subject (not easy to find a more authoritative source than that!)
• this little article is also a very useful and accurate explanation of the subject
• this post, and its links, explain in detail the closely related subject of how article directories really work and why they exist

There's a further potential problem, too, which arises for anyone intending to use "mass/automated submission" of articles to article directories.

When used for that purpose, these tools are effective enough to get your site heavily penalized by Google. What they're not effective enough to do is to give you any benefits worth having (and that was the case even before the recent Google updates).

Take a look in the SEO Forum here. You'll find plenty of threads started off by people whose sites have been heavily penalized, and many of them have been openly told by Google that using automated submission software was the reason.

Using this stuff this has no real benefits anyway: backlinks from article directories are worthless, for all the reasons explained in this and many other "article marketing" threads: How do Article Directories work? Even for a year or so before all the Panda updates of 2011 devalued article directory backlinks so much, SEO textbook writers were saying that you'd need literally tens of thousands of those "backlinks" to give you same linkjuice as that arising from one good backlink on a quality site specifically relevant to your niche.

Something to keep well away from!

These threads might also help anyone imagining that mass article directory submission might be a "good" thing to do:

A problem with Article Marketing robot
Content - Instant Article Wizard
Is anyone still using Article Samurai?
Sites with spammy backlinks
Calling out bad tactics
How to use Magic Submitter to create backlinks to my ecommerce site?
Is Seo link robot a good software?
Magic Submitter SENuke still useful?

It's best not to spin. Spun articles, no matter how good, aren't natural.

Unless you are targeting Internet Virgins, those articles would be pretty much worthless.

Better to use those articles once, but write more as follow-ups or branching-outs of topics in those articles.

That way, you have to research less and yet are able to prove your expertise in the field.

If you are just writing/getting articles on random topics, it's still better to stick to unique ones. The ones that get selected/approved (definitely more for unique) have a higher chance of converting.

@Alexa Smith Thank you really so much for this detailed reply , no words really can thank you , I will try to read of the threads you put there as much as I can .

There is something I didn't quite get it when you said "Unless you can find another one specific to your niche (never easy)"

I knew from your response is that spinning is worthless, but I didn't understand the conditions on when should I submit the same article in a different place could you please clarify it?
Thank you

You could look at cheap writers who are just starting out, use a good proofreader.

OR

Hire good writers and no proofreader.

Ultimately all you want is to get through the approval process of article directories.

It all depends on your budget and requirements. Try freelancing sites and ask for samples.

Try hiring from Warriors for Hire or some other forum.

You could also try writing them yourself!

Depends on the quality of the spun articles. I have seen some that are readable. If you are posting to some of the higher level article directories I would just get them written. If you are getting backlinks I would not make them spammy but they don't have to be top notch either.

Thebestspinner and it takes alot of time to get all those synonyms to properly work and then they don't work just right.

If you do a few you may get lucky. The thing with spinners they are used mainly for link building and that is all they care about. I would rather have it written in the right way than to spin it.

I do own four spinners though lol.

Shoot for the long-term, and never spin articles!

If i were you, I would prefer making different articles for article directories. Let's make ourselves safe when thinking of google related services (SEO)

Alexa, I wanted to say "thank you!".. for all of the information you give. I have a folder ....nevermind, no matter how I type that, it just sounds creepy! :p

Without hijacking this thread, could you please point me in a direction? I am confused about protecting my content while using a pen name. You have mentioned before that you also use a pen name.

Thank you!!!

~ Theresa