Does spinning content work any longer?
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A few years ago, I used Free Traffic System, and spun a bunch of content to get links.
I still have tens of thousands of these links showing up in stats. They were probably not good quality links.
Will I get penalized if I pick up the spinning game again?
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Hi,
English is not my mother tongue but I'm looking for a content spinning services provider to deliver hundreds of description for the same products categories. For example, I have 380 product descriptions for 1 category, 450 for another category, etc. and I have 87 categories to cover. I think content spinning is the only solution to generate these descriptions in a reasonable time frame and at a reasonable cost, too.
What do you think?
Best regards,
Sophia.[link removed by admin]
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Keri,
Of course, that level of copy-writing, should be penalized, especially if they are that lazy to create an article that doesn't make sense.
I'm talking about top quality spinning. Something that Journalist and PR Specialist do, day in, day out. In fact, the majority of the news stories written today would of been reworded from another source. How else can news spread across outlets if it is all seen as related/duplicate content?
If i get 5 stories, take a piece from each story and reword it and add my opinion, at what point does Google see this as spun content?
It can't. Otherwise the majority if not all of the blogosphere would be seen as duplicate.I wouldn't even class this as grey hat. Just unoriginal topics with a differing opinion.
Thomas
A single blog on my own servers, used a "fashion news" related site, with the occasional client anchor text dropped it, it has active social presence with many followers and ranks highly.
Manipulation of semi grey hat methods is needed for smaller clients. It is this stepping stone that creates traffic and leads to more organic methods in the future.
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When you say mix things up "keep your content unique" that kind of makes sense to me. However when you say to me that you're actually spinning content between 15 other clients I don't know if you host or not or what c blocks? However Google will only take only need one lead to you before they figured out What I'm getting at is you might not get caught today my not this year but eventually Google will figured out their only spending more and more time trying to eliminate this type of stuff you have to have valuable content actually matters to rank. And I say that I mean rank in the future and stay clean don't do things that manipulate the system try to build something that's actually worth something that's what Google wants that's what people want to win. go to copy Copyscape.com type in your website and see what they Will call you for no cost and that is some a very simple one that is nothing compared to what Google has.
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[disclaimer: I don't like content spinning, and I don't advocate it.]
Have someone who has native-level fluency read the generated content and make sure it makes sense. I've seen "think before you beverage" come out of "think before you drink" on an article about drinking.
Usually, high-quality sites won't accept spun content. For YouMoz, we reject content that is published elsewhere and reworded by hand.
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I spin content on a daily basis and haven't noticed any sufficient drops as a byproduct. I think if you do it right it shouldn't be an issue. Just make sure you change the title, sentence structure, paragraph structure, anchor text and outbound links.
Also how often does the specific site/blog link to the page your trying to rank for? The beauty of having 10-15 clients is that when it comes to blog spinning each article, the anchor text is diverse to the previous 10 blog posts already posted.
Mix things up and make the content unique and you shouldn't have an issue.
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Yes a few years ago used to work like a charm. However now you must be very very careful and definitely do not recycle or/spinn content when you do that you will definitely be picked up a Google algorithm and penalized severely. Just think of everything that you've achieved with it in the negative that's what you do essentially get. Don't try it and my best advice is used fresh content that has been written by a real human being to Try to trick Google is a waste of time these days. I hope I've been of help sincerely, Tom
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