Article Spinners - Seems People Don't Understand They're Hurting Themselves!
So, there's a new software available and the type of software is called an article spinnner. This type of software has been around for years and this piece is a new one.
Spin Rewriter
Spinning articles is low quality content at best. And if the Big G gets wind of it (And the Big G is smarter than us) then your site is likely going to flop "big time"
The articles this kind of software pumps out are low quality in human reading terms and littered with mistakes in such things as nuances that a human reader can easily spot which makes the article reading experience low quality.
It's a shame someone with the talents to write programs like this don't actually do something better with those talents, isn't it?
Don't Believe Me? Look at Kyle's Comment Below!
Taking an article from another website, changing words using synonyms and other "nifty" little tools to make the content "unique" is not going to work if you really want to build a rapport with your visitors. From what I've witnessed today, the articles they produce are "sub-par" and there is no hint of real personality in them.
Don't Be So Lazy!
If you're too lazy to write your own stuff, then perhaps you're in the wrong game and should look at other ways to make money online, such as gambling, because using article spinners is a big gamble itself.
If you can't be "bothered" to write your own, engaging, personality filled articles on your own website and you just want shortcuts, then you're not going to make it happen.
If Only They Really Were So Good!
Really. If article spinners were that good, we'd all be able to do it, Kyle would teach us how to use them and then we could all pump out 100 crap blog posts a day and make thousands of dollars a day.
Don't be lazy, research your stuff for yourself, write from experience, write the truth, write in your own personality and stop looking for cheats because there is only one real cheat that works...and that is writing your own unique content that helps people find out information.
Jimbo
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Wow. I guess it is not so bad being a gray-haired middle aged woman who is kind of naive to all the tricks available.
Kyle is correct about not having been an English major. I have no formal college education relating to proper English, writing, spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., and I went to a VERY small high school in a VERY small town.
I love writing, and that's the most fun part of WA. Getting your own "stuff" down on paper.
There's a famous quote from Ernest Hemingway in novel writing: 'The first draft of anything is shit.' You let yourself go and improve from there. This lazy action is reverse evolution on that theme. You are definitely headed for what Writer's Digest calls "The slush pile" where inadequate writers' efforts go.
I certainly agree and that is probably why I don't do enough articles. I know what I want to write and do my draft. I do some research and review of others content then fall asleep over the presentation of their content.
It is getting so bad that I now check out my facts with only a few sites eg wikipedia. (And I am now trained to fall asleep even with these.)
I agree with you, buddy. I am totally against it, even if I have used one in the past. My reason is, it violates the very purpose why are people blogging. A blog is a means to voice out what we think, and if we are just spinning other people's articles, even if we re-do the article to our own, it is still not 100% unique to us. Not 100% our voice.
"even if we re-do the article to our own, it is still not 100% unique to us."
Does this mean you are against any form of content curation?
Curation is different, as the ones being quoted are being credited for the original work.
There's a much easier and free way to spin articles --
Start with any article you'd like that's written in English.
First, use Google Translate to convert it to Spanish.
Next, use Google Translate to convert the Spanish version to German.
Finally, use Google translate to convert the German version back to English.
You'll end up with a thoroughly spun (and completely incomprehensible) article.
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If the original article maintains too much comprehensibility through this process, you can add a step doing a conversion to Czechoslovakian if necessary.
lol, living in Thailand and seeing the results of translation I can fully understand what you mean. Incomprehensible isn't a strong enough word to describe the results.
I once worked for a multinational X-ray company. The translations of the manuals were amazing. It took a few seconds to realize that the "superior cover for the debris" was the "upper dust cover". :=)
Okay Cyber-physics 101, let us move forward to page thirty-six of your good Samarian, pure soul almost like the "BIBLE" book....joke!
But for-real that's a lot of translating corporal, If it works "Tuche'!" You got an up on me "200!" "Make It Happen!"
The market is flooded with these 'products' and you are 'spot on'...I would rather save my money and invest my time to do my own 're-write' or synopsis, then waste both money and time to set up a spinner (sold under an endless variety of names...lol) and spit out garbage.
If only they really worked, eh? We'd all have an easy time of it...
Actually, if they did really work, and everyone was at it, the playing field would be even again, so it might be just as hard, simply because everyone was doing it.
It's like an analogy I use for doping in the olympics.
Drugs are not allowed to improve your performance, it's cheating.
But what if you allowed everyone to take performance enhancing drugs? The playing field would become level again and the competition fair. Same with article spinners if everyone used them. The competition would be levelled out and it would still be a struggle.
Hi Jimbo, totally agree with you. Spinners have been around as long as I have been working online (about 20 years). It seems they were promoted as the big answer to having problems with writing and to be big time savers. But they were really losers and ranking could get hit really bad when you used them.
Thanks
Joe
Agreed, Joe. I don't think an article spinner could ever be as good as even a low quality writer. Maybe even "watson" the IBM machine couldn't spin articles that seemed human. There would be tell tale signs it was not a human writer.
Well said Jimbo, if you are too lazy to write your own stuff or don't have a means to get someone else to write it for you, then you perhaps shouldn't be within the online space.
The thing that I think draws people into this trap though is they feel they are not qualified to be a good writer. I mean, if you don't have a degree in English you are not a good writer. That simply isn't the case.
You get better at something, one way. By doing. And one thing we all need to remember when we are creating content, we are communicating, we are not necessarily writing to become a distinguished author. We all have the skills to email a friend or family member, we all have the skills to build out high quality and very engaging sites.
If you go down the lazy "article spinner" path, you are always going end up in the sink hole of demise within the online space. You cannot cheat or game your way to success.
PS. Articles spinners do not work, will not rank content, and Google is years beyond rankings any content that has been spun. Anyone using these types of tools felt the pain many years ago.
Article spinners have been around for several years. I have experienced affiliate marketing programs that have promoted article spinning. That was a few years ago, so I'm not saying that is still happening.
I totally agree with what you say Jim-Bo. But from a newbies point of view, particularly if writing is a challenge for them, I can understand how they could be drawn in to using an article spinner.
No doubt, if newbies read your blog they will cease this disturbing practice immediately! Well done to you Jim-Bo :)
Yes i can understand it if they're challenged when it comes to writing and they think they can't write. As Kyle says, though, practice makes you better.
When I first became an English language teacher here in Thailand, by my current standards my Writing sucked.
Without even thinking about it much my writing improved a great deal just actually "doing" some writing as I was teaching. My writing naturally improved without having to study. It's the same when writing content for your site. It's easy when you just decide to write as you would speak to someone in person. The best thing about writing, compared to speaking is you can go back and edit what you've said to make sure your message is getting across.
Thanks Valerie!
You're welcome Jim-Bo. And, I like what you say about writing as you would speak to someone in person. Once I learned to do that I was able to move forward confidently with my writing. Again, a great message for newbies!
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Article spinners were only ever useful for spamming hundreds of article directories to get backlinks. Since that approach no longer works, they are useless.
Big G understands synonyms anyway, so if one article is exactly the same as another one but using synonyms, Big G will know it's essentially the same article.
This is why I'm skeptical of any tool that claims it can cheat the system too much.