Spin Articles for Off-Page SEO

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Hi everyone!

Do you still spun articles for your Off-page SEO? I wonder if this strategy still works nowadays.
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  • Profile picture of the author jakecoop79
    Still working just fine for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author meatro
    Of course it still works.

    Don't let people blow smoke up your butt about how great Google is at reading spun content.

    Google is a box... It cannot understand anything, neither can any machine. Just spin your content well (don't just use a few synonyms.. spin phrases, sentences, paragraphs and even articles).

    I equate Google's duplicate content abilities to the CTRL-F abilities of Windows Notepad.
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  • Profile picture of the author NewYorkerRocks
    article spinning is great but pls make sure that the article is spun very efficiently. ALWAYS go for Highly Spun article that is spun at the sentence and paragraph level because you don't want junk articles and of course google will detect this immediately.
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    • Profile picture of the author savvybizbuilder
      Originally Posted by NewYorkerRocks View Post

      article spinning is great but pls make sure that the article is spun very efficiently. ALWAYS go for Highly Spun article that is spun at the sentence and paragraph level because you don't want junk articles and of course google will detect this immediately.
      So, it has risk when using spun articles for article marketing. Better write original content for my off page seo and much safer to be a guest blogger.
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  • Profile picture of the author rizoalbert
    Its still working without any problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    So I am going to rock the boat.....

    Spinning is not a good idea anymore.... do you really think google cant tell that the content is spun?

    Also how is a crappy spun article good for readers? Who cares if it is only there to build links to your money site... it still has to answer the big question that google wants....

    Is it good quality content and is it enhancing user experience???

    I very much doubt it.....

    Your time is better spent creating unique content that makes sense.

    I use to spin articles so dont get me wrong it use to work fantastically....

    But would you be confident telling your clients that you publish crappy content that doesnt make sense with a link back to their business on it? I very much doubt it

    Danny

    PS these are just my thoughts and I wont judge anybody :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author minisite
      Originally Posted by Danny Cutts View Post

      So I am going to rock the boat.....

      Spinning is not a good idea anymore.... do you really think google cant tell that the content is spun?

      Also how is a crappy spun article good for readers? Who cares if it is only there to build links to your money site... it still has to answer the big question that google wants....

      Is it good quality content and is it enhancing user experience???

      I very much doubt it.....

      Your time is better spent creating unique content that makes sense.

      I use to spin articles so dont get me wrong it use to work fantastically....

      But would you be confident telling your clients that you publish crappy content that doesnt make sense with a link back to their business on it? I very much doubt it

      Danny

      PS these are just my thoughts and I wont judge anybody :-)
      I totally agree with your argument about unique contents and that G00gle's latest update and algo filter is much more efficient today in detecting crappy spun contents. So unique and informative content is the way to go. But if you're going to use spun content make sure to edit the contents so that its readable and it make sense.
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    • Profile picture of the author cardine
      Originally Posted by Danny Cutts View Post

      So I am going to rock the boat.....

      Spinning is not a good idea anymore.... do you really think google cant tell that the content is spun?
      Depends on the quality of spinning.

      There are spinners that can easily pass Copyscape, and Google's technology that detects uniqueness is no better than Copyscape's.

      The reason that it isn't any better than what Copyscape uses is because even Copyscape's technology is very expensive (there is a reason they have to charge so much per query). Google couldn't use technology any more advanced than this because they can't afford to pay $0.01 in computing resources per search for each and every webpage on the internet.
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      • Profile picture of the author savvybizbuilder
        Originally Posted by cardine View Post

        Depends on the quality of spinning.

        There are spinners that can easily pass Copyscape, and Google's technology that detects uniqueness is no better than Copyscape's.

        The reason that it isn't any better than what Copyscape uses is because even Copyscape's technology is very expensive (there is a reason they have to charge so much per query). Google couldn't use technology any more advanced than this because they can't afford to pay $0.01 in computing resources per search for each and every webpage on the internet.
        We can only assume that, but there still possibilities that Google's technology is more advance than Copyscape. With thousand of sites being penalized since Penguin release, we can assume Google's has better search query than Copyscape. But this is just my view as I observed this past days happens in Google search engine. But what do you stand in spinning articles? Go or No?
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        • Profile picture of the author cardine
          Originally Posted by savvybizbuilder View Post

          We can only assume that, but there still possibilities that Google's technology is more advance than Copyscape. With thousand of sites being penalized since Penguin release, we can assume Google's has better search query than Copyscape. But this is just my view as I observed this past days happens in Google search engine. But what do you stand in spinning articles? Go or No?
          You are aware that Copyscape uses Google's API to do its search queries, right? They are using the exact same technology.

          Penguin had nothing to do with spinning. Low quality spinning will obviously always be a subpar, but good spinning with good spintax is still very effective and will remain very effective for a long time.
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  • Profile picture of the author eurekapsycrille
    Spinning articles can be good or bad. In my experience, I always think carefully before I write articles. For me, spinning articles still works for off page SEO in some cases.

    IMO, you can spin an article and make it more valuable to users especially if you notice that there are still some improvements that you can make to that article. In that way, spinning is a good idea and you can give users better experience.

    Again, it's always a case to case basis when it comes to this. Unique written contents with low user value are still useless than a spun article that gives users what they want.

    You can write unique contents, that's the best way to do it. But make sure that you target real people, and provide what they need. Search engines don't really need the information given in your content for their own purposes. They want good contents for the "USERS" of search engines.

    What's funny sometimes is that, the mindset of many SEOs are focused on writing unique articles/contents. That's great. However, they forget that users will define the quality of your contents.

    Can you call a unique article a good quality one if there's nothing interesting in it? (I'm not saying that I am against in writing unique articles. )

    So either unique or spun, as long as you meet the golden rule which is providing what users want, and satisfy them, you are on the right track.

    P.S. I just shared my experience when it comes to writing articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author savvybizbuilder
      Originally Posted by eurekapsycrille View Post

      So either unique or spun, as long as you meet the golden rule which is providing what users want, and satisfy them, you are on the right track.

      P.S. I just shared my experience when it comes to writing articles.
      Copy that! Thanks..
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      • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
        Dude spinning is risky - i'd stay away from it unless you're prepared to spin at sentence and paragraph level which takes time. Google have bought various symantic companies over the last 5 years which makes me think they are out to identify it, not to mention autospin just reads like gibberish most of the time which wouldn't be hard to detect.

        Really with everyone complaining about Panda and now Penguin you'd think people would just build quality links that have a future. So many people on warrior want to find the magic loophole then get upset when its rightly closed down.
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  • Profile picture of the author justin44
    I don’t recommended using article spinners because most of the time, you still have to edit the spun article to make it coherent.
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    • Profile picture of the author minisite
      Originally Posted by justin44 View Post

      I don’t recommended using article spinners because most of the time, you still have to edit the spun article to make it coherent.
      Spinning contents is the fastest way to generate unique content and should only be use for backlink purposes. These spun contents might be unique enough according to the search engine's algorithm but not to the visitors. Eventually G's search engine will be smart enough to detect spun contents that it will provide less importance and designate it as a low priority backlink.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pyramid Linkers
    Spinning articles is definitely still effective. Can you use crappy autospun junk to promote your site and expect results? NO! And I hope no one is still doing this.

    The quality of the spin is what is most important. So spend an hour and a half to do the following:

    1. Write and original article
    2. Spin the article at the sentence level
    3. Then spin the article at the word level
    4. Check several variations to verify the article flows well
    5. Then submit

    Focus on varying the article length and writing quality titles. You should also be adding media like images and video to at least half of your web 2.0 postings.
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    • Profile picture of the author savvybizbuilder
      Originally Posted by Pyramid Linkers View Post

      Spinning articles is definitely still effective. Can you use crappy autospun junk to promote your site and expect results? NO! And I hope no one is still doing this.
      Hope everyone learned from this thread as much as I do. Thanks everyone who provided excellent advice!
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  • Profile picture of the author qualityarticles
    Hi,

    I think Spun contents make sense in today's SEO strategy.

    Regards,
    Ricky.
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  • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
    Originally Posted by savvybizbuilder View Post

    Hi everyone!

    Do you still spun articles for your Off-page SEO? I wonder if this strategy still works nowadays.
    I personally hate spun content. If it works or not, I don't know how good. I like to write LSI articles for my SEO campaign.

    The reason Google is on a rampage is because of all the crap SEO'ing, if people took a little pride in their work, their efforts will go a long way.

    Up to you if want to take the easy way out, but spun articles are useless to readers and have no value in search results. I'm sure Google's next updates will find a way to zap spun content.... I think they already have zapped some that are spun bad.
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    • Profile picture of the author savvybizbuilder
      Originally Posted by gearmonkey View Post

      I personally hate spun content. If it works or not, I don't know how good. I like to write LSI articles for my SEO campaign.

      The reason Google is on a rampage is because of all the crap SEO'ing, if people took a little pride in their work, their efforts will go a long way.

      Up to you if want to take the easy way out, but spun articles are useless to readers and have no value in search results. I'm sure Google's next updates will find a way to zap spun content.... I think they already have zapped some that are spun bad.
      I'm not into spun articles yet. But seems, majority of the warriors disagreed on such strategy and some are depends on the quality of how you spun articles for article marketing or web 2.0 posting. Better stick to my white hat.
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  • Profile picture of the author DeMango25
    Spinning still works fine for me... I just try to make sure that the resulting articles are readable and provide some value...
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  • Profile picture of the author onlinemegastore
    Depend on site worth,Spin article doesn't provide you traffic only backlink.....
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  • Profile picture of the author rakhi2012
    Personally i have not Spinning article because it just like work spam.
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