Article Spinners? Any Advice?

Back when I used to spin articles I used the best spinner. There may be cheaper ones out there, but I found them to be a pain to use and not as good.

Hi Amy ... yes: keep well away from them.

Spinning is nonsense.

The perceived "benefit" of spinning is based only 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.

It's without value, but it can damage your business. 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?

Stay away, far far away!

Spinners to me are a waste of precious time. The best spinner as mentioned is in your head. Be original.

You can even use translation tools as spinners. Just port a text over from one language to the other or even from one translator to a different. Indeed the output will be a mess but an article spinner is not better. You always must manually edit and proof the text.