Is there any point in Spinning Articles in 2013?

Assuming penguin does not evolve to the point it starts ranking a backlink source's content quality, you shouldn't worry.

Sunnysmiles,

the point is, don't ask a writer or article marketer

If you want to know whether there is a point in article spinning you will need to ask SEOs, mainly those who have their own blog networks or use them on tier 2.0 properties.

One criterium I always hear is "stick-rate"....if people tell you that spun articles "stick" as long as "normal" articles it should answer your question. I myself cannot answer this since I "only" do the spins but don't use them myself or have any blog network at the moment and also don't do any web2.0 right now myself. Looking at the fact that I still have clients who request spins I would assume there is still a merit for spins. Some clients however alternate and order spins and then rewrites (very good quality, I need to add) and then make their own observations what sort of article works best.

The problem here is that blog networks or web2.0 have other problems associated with them, so if some client's network or web2.0 properties would not be as effective anymore it can also have other reasons, not necessarily the quality of the spins. It would be a fallacy to say that the reason the web2.0 etc. don't rank anymore is the spun articles when in reality there are other reasons playing a role.

Edit: If I were for some reason still be convinced that web2.0 (say: SenukeX) 'works' for ranking I would of course use spins as content. However, I don't use such software anymore but this has nothing to do with spins per se.

Article Spinning still works for some people in 2013, but for me personally, i am a busy man so i just outsource it to content writers. I find that after spinning articles i have to go through it thoroughly for it to make sense. So why not read an article online and write it in your own words or interpretation?

It is a tricky question, the issue is value, best thing to do is testing, how much value does google put on unique content / scraped content / spun. Personally money site = content written by my self or better. Tier 1 spun but spun to a very high level, tier 2 spun with few mistakes, tier 3 /4/5 spun but with less care.

No, none at all. Although I see some people selling spinning services already trying to tell you otherwise. :rolleyes:

Spinning is nonsense.

It's based on a fundamental misunderstanding.

It's a "solution to a problem that doesn't actually exist" - and 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?

I use spinning articles not for original content of website, but for creating backlinks. While spinning, I always try to keep my output articles 100% readable. I use Spin ReWriter which produce 99% spun articles which are 100% readable.

For creating backlinks it's fine. But I only use it to create backlinks to my backlinks, not direct to my sites. I make direct links as quality as possible (and money site too ofcourse)

I dont spin anything any more...

I like to sleep at night and not worry about the content i am putting out on the web :-)

Danny

Ok, I realise I'm being thick here. What is the point of spinning? A backlink is a backlink. If you have a good article, why destroy it by spinning it? Just post it to as many sites as you want.

I would rather avoid spinning the article to avoid the possibility of Google detection. Why invite potential issues from Google when one can avoid them. Stick with original and high quality articles instead. It's a safe way.

Straight out of the box spun articles don't work or some do, but the value passed is minimal (if you are lucky).

You really need to put in the effort to make spun content "worthy" in Google's eyes these days.

If you are in the business of creating crap for a few measly dollars and a worthless business then yes spin content.

Someone mentioned Google... who cares what Google thinks... care about the customers that read your content.

If you use a low-quality spin articles, you are wasting your time.
If you use a high-quality spin articles, it can help you in backlinking.

Similarly...

If you use a low-quality original article, it doesn't help your website
If you use a high-quality original article, you can get a lot of natural backlinks.

Similarly...

If you use ONLY spinned articles in your money sites, get ready for trouble from Google
If you use a mix of spinned articles along with originals, it's fine in the long run.

The moral of the story is: 1) Don't overdo it, 2) If you wanna spin, spin them well.