Definitions

Traditionally, spinning has been and is associated with articles that are gibberish. I have read material on the web that can only have been written by a robot, or perhaps by a third grade foreigner attempting to learn to read and write English. The results are much less than acceptable. In fact, they are abominable.

If that is spinning articles, then it should surely be banned from the web. It is quite obvious that no human ever looked at the article before it was published on the web.

I can only conclude that the article was composed by one of those automated non-human spinning services. Although, I have never used spinning services and I can only speak from my observation. And, my observation is not quantified.

It appears as if the material is generated by substituting synonyms for specific words or by substituting phrases. The results seem to be generated without human intervention.

Another definition could be that of rewriting an article with some human intervention. The author selects specific words or phrases and allows the software to generate articles based on those substitutions.

Again, human intervention is limited and the results often require significant editing to make the article ready for web publication. Of course, some article marketers may be only interested in SEO and publish the material “as is” resulting in sometimes nonsensical verbiage or at best second or third grade reading material.

If the definition of spinning an article falls within either of these two definitions or methods, then I must agree with the naysayers and ask that all such work be banned from the internet. This is where the debate fails to distinguish between the traditional limited definition and a definition that is more universal.

Repackaged Articles

Few can deny that they have “repackaged” an article to save time or to quell a writer’s block. Rewriting or repackaging an article is acceptable.

A publisher-editor of a well known and popular article directory once said, “Repackaged, rewritten articles on the same subject are hardly ever 100% unique.” He also said, “… the use of existing articles reworded or not, is not an issue.”

Given that even repackaged rewritten articles are hardly ever 100% unique; would it be far fetched to describe those articles as spun articles? I think not.

So the hotly debated spinning issue comes down to what kind of spun articles are acceptable. It is not whether or not articles should be spun; it is rather how they should be spun and how they are used. That spun articles are acceptable is a fact. The quality of spun articles and their use are the issues.

Now that we have established that rewritten spun articles are not an issue what remains is a debate over the quality and use of those articles.

Two Schools

Obviously, there are two schools of thought. One school believes that spinning is wrong, bad, spamming, and black hat. The other claims that spinning is useful, not spamming, and good for SEO.

The first school holds their view simply because of their limited definition of spinning. I doubt that not at least one of them have written on the same topic more than once. That they have, regardless of whether they used an existing article as a template or not, they put a new or different twist on the subject and in that sense the article was spun.

Fully Automated Services

One method is to use a spinning service. You submit an article to this service and they generate spun articles which then you can use or not. As mentioned at the beginning of this article, most often, the results are abominable.

Automated Human Assisted

Another method uses software that takes an article and replaces words that you identify with synonyms. This gives much better results than the first method. However, the results are still very often less than acceptable and require significant rewrites and editing to make them worthy of publication.

Human Generated Auto-Assisted

There is a third method that does generate high quality, informative, and unique content. In its strictest sense, this method is one of rewriting an article. The author rewrites the original article on a sentence by sentence or paragraph by paragraph basis. An article with a sufficient number of paragraphs can be rewritten paragraph by paragraph. Human automated assisted tools will yield countless high quality unique articles.

With the magic of randomizing software and the truth of mathematics, thousands of unique articles in the eighty plus percentile of uniqueness can be created. Even the closest of scrutiny would find it difficult to determine the originals.

What is the problem? How are properly rewritten articles spun or not spun, not be valid informative quality articles? Negative responses elude me.

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You log in to each directory separately and it seems as if every directory has its own set of formatting rules, anchor text rules, html rules, and resource box rules. It’s a madhouse.

What can you do?

You want to submit to as many different directories as possible. And then, there is the issue of duplicate content. As you well know, some directories will not accept articles that have been submitted or published elsewhere except for your own website or blog.

That issue makes a case for spinning/rewriting your articles. If done correctly your articles will never be labeled as “duplicate content”. Read this article, “Spinning an Article – A Tool to Increase Your Traffic”.

I do not condone article submitters that automatically submit your article to 1000+ directories. In the first place, just what are the directories that are being submitted to? Are these directories just adsense farms? What is their page rank?

Second, I have no knowledge or control over the formatting and content that actually is published. I am too much a perfectionist to allow the slipshod submission of my content to any directory. When submitting to article directories I want control of the content.

Thirdly, it is an insurmountable task to keep up with the changing requirements of each of these directories and I do not trust that one type of formatted submission fits all the different requirements of every directory.

And finally, every directory has a different set of categories to categorize your article. If it’s placed in the wrong category, it will never get read.

It takes manual intervention to properly submit your article to a directory. Anything you can do to automate the process will save you hours of work.

Any program or software that tells you that all you have to do is push a button and presto your article is submitted to hundreds or thousands of directories is misleading you.

If you have ever submitted to multiple directories, you know the effort and time needed to do the task.

Listed below are 25 directory sites with PR2 or better.

articlesbase.com PR6 few ads

buzzle.com PR6

ezineArticles.com PR6

goarticles.com PR6

helium.com PR6

promotionworld.com PR6

isnare.com PR6

articlebiz.com PR5 fewest ads

articlecity.com PR5

articlealley.com PR5 few ads

searchwarp.com PR5

articledashboard.com PR5 few ads

articletrader.com/ PR5 few ads

ideamarketers.com PR5

articleclick.com PR4

articlesfactory.com PR4 few ads

articlesphere.com PR4

articlecompilation.com PR4

articlefeeder.com PR3

amazines.com PR 3

articlerich.com PR3

articlewarehouse.com PR3

free-articles-zone.com PR3

web-source.net PR3 few ads – techie directory

ultimatearticledirectory.com PR2 few ads

Not all directories are created equal. Just because a directory has a PR6 does not mean that your article will bring you traffic or link juice from this directory. The home page of that directory may have a PR of 6 but the articles within it are most often ranked with a PR of “n/a” or “0″.

Directories generate revenue by selling ads on their sites, some more than others, or by charging a subscription for publication in their directories.

You must realize that some of these directories are adsense farms and are more concerned with their bottom line than with promoting your article. I personally no longer submit to ezinearticles because they are an adsense farm.

You will notice that I have noted those directories with few ads. Of those articlebiz.com has the fewest ads surrounding articles in their directory. The directory with the most ads is ezinearticles.

There is another alternative. That is a paid subscription to a directory. It is a good investment in that you pay them a fee and they publish your article and in some cases they promote your article.

Publishing and promoting your articles with only SEO is no longer the ideal in article marketing. You must promote through social marketing to achieve success.

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No magic bullet exists that will create readable coherent articles from any one article by using automated spinners. Have you experimented with automated spinners? Then you know that article spinning is for the most part a useless endeavor. Or, the system is so complicated and hard to implement that you give up using it.

What if you could create unique quality content, simply and easily? Would that interest you? It did me. Well you can.

New technology can now let you create 10-20 or more unique readable articles quickly. With this rewriting tool, you will increase your output tenfold with less than half the effort.

Many think that rewriting an article is some kind of cheating. It is not. If you are an article marketer, you know that the number of articles you publish is critical to your success. Although the words spinning and rewriting are used interchangeably, some say that rewriting is the same as spinning an article that is not correct.

Spinning an article is the random substitution of words, usually synonyms, in an article. The result is sometimes readable but often it is not. It can also be the mixing of different paragraphs or sentences from different articles to create a “unique” article.

Many writers fail to understand that you must create at least two additional versions of the entire article before you can successfully create multiple spun articles. They think that changing a word here or there or an occasional sentence will do the trick. Not so! You will not get the recommended 70% uniqueness for the spun articles.

You know, as I do, that there are free article spinners on the internet. There is old adage, “You get what you pay for.” I believe that is true.

Develop a simple system. With the original article as a template, start rewriting paragraph by paragraph. You will be surprised how quickly you can think of alternative wording for your original article.

Create two additional versions for each paragraph. This will insure a good number of quality unique spun articles. The number of spun articles generated is dependent on the number of paragraphs in the article and the number of versions you create.

For instance, if you have only two versions of an article with five paragraphs, you will have 32 spun articles. If you have three versions of an article with five paragraphs, you will have 243 spun articles. The number of spun articles increases exponentially. Not all the articles will be 70% or better in uniqueness, but many will.

Wouldn’t that kind of productivity increase your traffic? Of course, it would. What could you do with those unique articles?  You could post them on blogs, forums, and directories. You could create PDF files, newsletters, and e-books.

Think of a reader stumbling on one of your articles on the web, clicking through to your blog or site and finding the very same article – not good. Having a unique article or post will decrease your bounce rate.

If you are a serious article marketer, you know the value of writing many articles to get traffic. With a rewriting tool like Rapid Rewriter, you can easily create many unique readable articles in minutes as opposed to hours.

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What is article spinning? Years ago, software was developed that took an article and systematically substituted synonyms for like words in the article. Sometimes the software was a little more sophisticated and used a thesaurus to substitute words. In theory, that was a great idea.

However, there were and are some major problems with the output. Have you ever read one of those spun articles? They do not always make sense. You may get the gist of the article, but after reading a few lines, it becomes obvious to a native speaker that either the author is a foreigner or the author is on hallucinogenic drugs.

Nevertheless, article marketers, not article writers, would and still do submit those articles for publication. It was and is a way to increase the output of articles effortlessly.

Unfortunately, since most of the output is garbage that practice has given the art of rewriting articles a bad name. Along with that, it has given article marketers and article writers a bad name.

Rewriting articles is very time consuming. Yet, it is a legitimate and effective way to increase productivity. There is no substitute for manually rewriting an article. Automated software does not give you control of the output and the input of the content.

Yet, when done correctly your rewritten article will attract greater search engine exposure. It will decrease the bounce rate to your website or sales page. You can create press releases, e-books, PDF files and much more from your rewritten articles.

There is nothing wrong with submitting the same article with the same words to multiple directories and ezines. But, how boring! Imagine yourself as a reader going from one site to another and finding the same exact wording of an article when you were expecting something fresh or at least different.

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Rewriting articles solves that problem. The key is to rewrite your article so that any rewritten version is a minimum of 70% different from the original. After writing the original version, immediately write two more versions using the original as a template. Start with the first paragraph and work through the article. You will now have three versions of the original article. You can do this easily in a matter of an hour or less.

If you have rewritten every paragraph, assuming each of the three articles has five paragraphs, and if you took the time you could, theoretically and mathematically, manually generate 243 new articles from those three versions. That is 3 to the 5th power equals 243 (3 versions, 5 paragraphs). That would be a monumental task!

This is where spinning meets rewriting. A good rewriting tool (the top article spinner) will take your original three versions and give you up to 243 articles. There is still a problem. Not all of those 243 articles will be 70% unique or better.

Sorting out those articles that are not 70% unique is a simple task. Some of those 243 can have uniqueness as high as 80%. There are free article comparison tools on the web. With those tools, you can set the filters to check for various levels of consecutive words, sentences, or paragraphs and determine the article’s uniqueness.

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If you decide to use one be aware that many on the market are useless. They replace words randomly with synonyms or with a thesaurus and generate gibberish. If you choose to use article rewriting software make absolutely sure that you have complete control of the output and the input.

Maybe this will help explain what article spinners do and what some of their limitations are.

Let’s take a simple example. One original article with three paragraphs (1, A, and X). If your reword each of the paragraphs with two rewritten versions, you now have two additional articles with reworded paragraphs (2BY and 3CZ).

Article #1:  1 A X

Article #2:  2 B Y

Article #3:  3 C Z

You can now swap paragraphs, keeping the order of the pargraphs to make new articles. For instance, I can create an article with paragraphs 1, B, and Z and it would make sense.

But, I cannot have an article with three paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 because the article would consist of the first paragraph of each of the three versions saying the same thing only in different words.

I couldn’t create an article with paragraphs1, B, and C because the second and third paragraphs would be the same second paragraph from versions #2 and #3 using different words. Make sense?

New Articles:

1AX,1AY,1AZ,1BX, 1BY,1BZ, 1CX, 1CY,1CZ
2AX, 2AY, 2AZ, 2BX, 2BY, 2BZ, 2CX, 2CY, 2CZ
3AX, 3AY, 3AZ, 3BX, 3BY, 3BZ, 3CX, 3CY, 3CZ

A total of 27 new articles including the originals! The number of possible combinations is the number of articles you create raised to the power of the number of paragraphs in the article. In this case, 3X3X3 = 27. If you had 5 paragraphs and you changed all 5, then the number of possible articles would be 3X3X3X3X3 = 243 articles. NOTE: This formula only works if you change all of the paragraphs in your article.

The problem, of course, is determining the uniqueness of the article content or, in other words, how much duplicate content exists in these articles.

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We know that we have three 100% unique articles because we created them. What about the other 24?

We know that none of the 24 will be better than approximately 66% unique or 34% duplicate content of the original article (1AX). Why? Because there were only 3 paragraphs changed. None of the articles can have more than two different paragraphs. Two of three paragraphs equals 66%.

If you had only 2 paragraphs to change in a 2 paragraph article, none of the articles would be better than approximately 50% unique. If you had 10 paragraphs and changed all 10, the percentage would reach about 90% uniqueness. The more paragraphs the greater the uniqueness. I say approximately because the software algorithms used to compute uniqueness varies.

Another word of caution, the uniqueness of the articles is measured against the original article,1AX, NOT among themselves. So, which ones are unique and which are not? You need an article content software tool to tell you. Content comparison software is available that allows you to choose how many consecutive words, sentences or paragraphs you want to set as a minimum.

In the previous example of the 24 spun articles you will find that around half of them are 70% unique or better, if you set the measurement at 3 consecutive sentences. I choose 3 sentences because most of my paragraphs are that length.

70% is pretty good. Depending on your intent you may want to check the spun articles against one another. But again, depending on your intent that may not matter to you. When you consider that many people submit the same article to multiple directories, what’s a little duplication?

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I would leave that site quicker than the flicker of wind blown flame. Why? Because the author of the article or site is lazy and not really interested in providing me with useful and unique information.

Here are a few tips that you should consider when writing an article for publication to an article directory.

• After writing the article consider rewriting several different versions of the article.
• While it is fresh in your memory, it is easy to reword.
• Start with the first paragraph. Use synonyms and rearrange the rewritten sentences.
• It is best to go through the entire article. Rewording each paragraph.
• Create at least two versions for each paragraph.
• Limiting your rewrite to words, phrases, or sentences undermines the uniqueness you are trying to create.
• Rewriting your articles and submitting unique articles to different directories increases your search engine exposure.
• Do not use rewriting software that arbitrarily or randomly uses synonyms to automatically generate articles. It is a waste of your money and time.
• If you do decide to use article rewriting software, make sure that you have complete control of the input and the output.
• With two or more versions for each paragraph and a good rewriting software you can easily generate 10 to 20 unique and quality articles.
• Rewriting articles not only improves search engine optimization (SEO), it reduces the bounce rate to your site. Thus, more sales!

Article rewriting can be time consuming without some automation. Nevertheless, it is well worth the effort. How would you like to go from one site to another and find the exact same article? I think not.

I personally know of only one piece of software that allows you complete and total control of the content of your rewritten articles.

Please read this review and decide for yourself. I think you would agree that rewriting your articles for multiple submissions makes sense.

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