Comments on: Why Article Spinning Doesn’t Work

By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:07:25 +0000

In my humble opinion it is easier to read an article then rewite it in your own words. Maybe this is because I still use the old fashioned pen and paper method rather than fight to get software to do what I can do myself. Surely. if article directories publish spun rubbish, they will not last long?

By: John Mauldin

John Mauldin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:44:39 +0000

Quality content is the only way to go. As it is pointed out here, there is a right and wrong way to “spin” an article. Normally, there is more than one side to a subject and with a little creativity we can look at an article through the various ways viewers of the article might see and present that article in a slightly different point of view to provide us with a “fresh look” at the same copy.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:31:28 +0000

@Katherine It’s things like article spinning that end up getting our good reprinted content docked in the search engines. I guess it is the tragic flaw in technology – it lacks the artificial intelligence to make a distinction, in this case between spun articles and noteworthy reprints. I bet they are trying to find solutions though.

Add another to the list: why spend all the time on useless article spinning when we know that creating great content is hard. Use your time wisely!

By: Chedie

Chedie — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:47:45 +0000

I understand the need for article spinner software for easier construction of content. Yes, it is because of these ‘spun’ articles (replacement of synonyms, etc.) that the web has become full of SPAM, users had become adept to ignore ‘duplicate-looking’ content.

Communication changes depending on how it was transferred or told via different channels. It is this fact business owners must realize to gain legibility status. It does require work but users appreciate such efforts than end up with a bad reputation of sharing almost ‘duplicate’ content.

I understand the temptation for article spinners. I had been there. Then, I realized my site was churning junk and my conceived ‘efforts’ was useless and bad in the long run.

So hail to search engines for their efforts against this! An inspiring or unique informative content maybe hard to get by… but the effort for personal communication is better.

By: Katherine Andes

Katherine Andes — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:41:15 +0000

I totally agree on the automation. What annoys me, is that plain old “reprints” are penalized at all. If an article is worthy, why shouldn’t it be duplicated across various sites? I’ve had articles without one word changed published in various print magazines over the years. The editors weren’t bothered. So why should search engines care if a a decent article is published more than once on the web.

I guess they don’t care, really, they just will try to pick the original or most important placement to rank. But they aren’t very good at it. I’ve seen my content scraped without my name attached to it, and it beats out the legitimate posting in rankings.

I hope you’re right, Nick, that the search engines are catching on to the automated spinners.

By: David Leonhardt

David Leonhardt — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:44:40 +0000

If you do it right, article spinning is none of the above. If you use software to spin, you churn out crap and synonyms are, well, synonyms of the same word. But spinning manually is just repurposing content, something people have done for eons.

The politician who makes the same speech, changing only the names, in Little Bend, Riverside, Four Corners and so on.

The fisherman who tells all his friends about the one that got away (only each time he repurposes, the fish gets an inch longer).

And so the article marketer who sends the same article with shifts in some of the information to different sites.

Properly spun, one does not just use synonyms. Properly spun, there can be a hundred titles, several URLs and a variety of anchor text. Your rant is not against article spinning – it’s against automation. Automation and SEO do not mix. I join in that rant.