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Some useful info that may be useful regarding spinning.

I recently purchased 100 spun articles related to my niche. According to the Seller, who has a five star rating on on warrior, several niche related articles are scraped and the paragraphs are swapped around to create a new article made up of parts of other articles. They are 100% Copyscape approved.

I posted all of the articles to High PR Society, posting to PR 2 or above blogs and set each article to be used/spun 30 times using one link per article.

Concerned that non of my keywords had moved much after one month I took all 3000 post URLs from HPRS and loaded them into Nuclear Indexer (a service I highly recommend) to discover that after two weeks of indexing time only 7.41% of the URL's are indexed. In my experience a 7.41% index rate is extremely low and indicates poor quality content.

To try to increase the index rate I than loaded the URLs into Dripable and blasted a couple of rounds at them but this made little difference.

This suggests to me that either there is a problem with the HPRS network or the spun content is an issue. My guess is that the spun content is the issue. I might even stick my neck out and say that Google can easily recognize spun content and devalues it.

Personally i'd rather pay the extra for BMR where the indexing rate is 100% and the article 100% unique.
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  • Well, if copyscape can't tell, I doubt that Google can, so my guess is it's something with the blogs. :-(
  • 1. Don't ever buy scraped and spun articles, even 100% Copyscape passed. Buy original spun content.

    2. High PR Society seems a bit shady to my. If it's what I think it is I wouldn't use it. Stick with BMR if you have an account (they're now closed).

    I think number 1 is your biggest problem.

    100% true for SCRAPED content. Proven in the field.
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  • The only way your going to see SERP movement for highly competitive keywords consistently is by paying to get links on highly trusted pages on highly trusted sites.

    Many private network services have a tough time ranking for competitive keywords mostly because they simply can't funnel enough juice through the links.

    If your using such a private network and lacing the web with links on PR0 or PRna web pages, there is a very little chance you will see SERP movement if your keyword of interest has any real competition.

    With respect to spinning and indexing. I believe that domains that have spun content do indeed take a hit in terms of their trust rank.

    If the behavioral metrics do not show engagement on subsequent site pages, the entire domain will be systematically stripped of trust, which will ultimately undermine the ability of that site or network of sites to rank you for your term.

    Its a weird thing. As private networks mature, IF the owner begins to allow questionable content on the site for the sake of selling links (money is real smooth talker in this case), the foundation of their network will begin to rot and their trust will begin to erode. Additionally, all private networks eventually for a footprint.

    The only real way for a PN owner to avoid this is to have the highest of standards in terms of content acceptance or creation and then they additionally have to abandon old properties as well as form new ones.

    If the PN your talking about using doesn't do this, they will eventually get nailed in the Google index...its like a law of nature. It eventually happens to them all.

    Ultimately, its all about getting quality links from pages with quality content. There are really no shortcuts.

    Mark
  • Copyscape has "Word Matching Plagiarism Detection System" not "Phrase Matching Plagiarism Detection". You are making a mistake unless you review your articles that really are making sense.

    To get good spun you have to submit a well written article that has no grammatical errors and blunders. If you put in a vulnerable content to get good one and you are publishing it on your site that means you are deliberately making a big mistake that might ruin everything.
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  • Remember one thing! Always use unique written articles. Never use spun or copied otherwise you will be penalized.
  • I think those kinds of articles are "retarded" (sorry for lack of better words) since you cannot simply assume that GOOGLE does not do sentence-level "dupe checks".

    What if you make a "new" article from sentences from existing articles from the web but Google "knows" that EACH sentence is dupe of another sentence? Do you think Google is so stupid? I always think they have certainly some elaborate ways to check for dupes and personally would never assemble "new" articles from PLR bits and pieces from the web. Not very clever, imo... besides that the article would LIKELY "not flow" since it's made from different articles altogether.
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    • But who says google cares in every case? They don't.
      Wikipedia is full of copied junk.

      Not that I'm encouraging its use.

      I agree they would just be mostly junk IMHO.

      There's dupe content then there's dupe content.

      I certainly would not pay for that junk.

      Paul
    • Google uses a system of text vectors and n grams to determine duplicate content.

      An n-gram is a string of words. My research over the years hints that the n = 4 to 6, meaning Google looks for duplicate strings of 4-6 words.

      Logic backs this up...Any string shorter than 4-6 words probably has a high degree of "false alarms". For exampe an n-gram of 3 words, such as "cheap hotel rooms" is likely used on a number of non-duplicate pages. But the longer the n-gram that's repeated, the more likely two pages are duplicate.

      Text vectors map where the n-grams are on a page and where they are as related to each other. Is one 6 word text string 18 words away from another 6 word string on two different pages?

      The way to defeat n-grams and text vectors is to spin 1 out of every 4-6 words which messes with the n-grams, then mix and match paragraphs in random orders to destroy Google's ability to see a correlation in text vectors.

      Another technique is to swap nouns, not adjectives, whenever possible:
      I drove my toyota.
      I drove my ford.

      Ford and Toyota are not synonems, which also messes with Google's doop detection.

      Also when spinning, it's best to have variations with different number of words:

      I need to train my
      rottweiler
      akc german shepard
      german bred male rottie

      Each option has a different number of words. This will also help mess with Google's doop detector.

      But you need a lot of options for each spin, otherwise you're just creating doop n-grams, especially if you spin a lot of pages. When people claim you can get millions of versions, maybe, but that could mean only a couple of words have been changed.
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  • Hi, maybe you can check on Alexa to see how many backlinks do you have. Maybe you should try Easy WP SEO too, to increase your keywords ranking.
  • This whole "passed copyscape" thing is such nonsense. Google doesn't use copyscape, just because you're able to fool copyscape does not mean you'll fool google.

    And Paul also has a point, I am sure the whole duplicate content situation is way more complicated than we make it out to be. It is not black and white. In fact, I've seen pages rank number 1 over a long period of time that consist of 3 or 4 articles from ezinearticles with just a sentence or two between each article. If you look at the individual articles, each of them are used on 100s of websites, but because they are used in a unique way, they are good enough for #1.

    So it is not just the fact that duplicate content is being used, but how it is being used.
  • Spun articles are a WASTE of time! Write some quality ones (no matter they will take 2 or 3 hours!) and I can guarantee you would get a much better result
  • Thanks everyone for the info on copyscape and how it's different from Google's duplicate content detection. Useful comments here.
  • If you are even going to try and use spun content, you need high quality spins. They need to be spun on sentence and maybe even paragraph level manually. Spinning works great if it is done right.
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    Spun content

    Some useful info that may be useful regarding spinning. I recently purchased 100 spun articles related to my niche. According to the Seller, who has a five star rating on on warrior, several niche related articles are scraped and the paragraphs are swapped around to create a new article made up of parts of other articles. They are 100% Copyscape approved.