{"id":1661,"date":"2014-02-10T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2014-02-08T18:27:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T18:27:18","slug":"never-ever-spin-an-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/never-ever-spin-an-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Never, Ever Spin An Article"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Writing can be pretty rough work, and putting together a piece of quality content that\u2019s both properly search-optimized and valuable to the reader can be a very tall order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be awesome if you could simply take a single good piece of content and turn it into a hundred pieces or more without having to put in any extra effort? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be great if, instead of having to pay a hundred writers, you could simply pay one and sell the same piece a hundred times?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, that\u2019s entirely possible \u2013 and completely inadvisable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ladies and gentlemen, let\u2019s talk about content spinning.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The term refers to a black hat SEO technique in which an author uses an application to rewrite their article thoroughly enough that search algorithms will register it as different from the original. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In theory, this allows content resubmission. You can resubmit it hundreds of times. This can be to your own site or other places. If done correctly, you avoid Google&#8217;s duplicate content penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, Google\u2019s getting better at detecting spun content every day. Last year\u2019s Panda update effectively crushed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elegantthemes.com\/blog\/wordpress\/what-is-article-spinning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">content spinning<\/a> in blogs, and the Deepmind acquisition promises to make the organization\u2019s algorithms considerably more intelligent \u2013 and likely even better at working out whether or not a marketer is a lazy sod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Black-hat.webp\" alt=\"Black Hat over Lamp\" class=\"wp-image-4774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Black-hat.webp 480w, https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Black-hat-225x300.webp 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Black Hat Seo! Think again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, even getting stuff past Google\u2019s radar doesn\u2019t change the fact that spun content will inevitably be of lower quality than anything produced organically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See, most content spinning applications replace words and phrases with synonyms. Unfortunately, they don&#8217;t grasp the English language well. They tend to produce garbled, nonsensical word salad. It&#8217;s rarely workable content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an example, spinning the phrase \u201cthe quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog,\u201d could easily result in something like \u201cthe express fawn fox plunged up the dull dog.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Moderately amusing, sure.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>But workable in an online marketing context? Hardly. You might as well just hurl a thesaurus at your keyboard \u2013 you\u2019d probably end up with the same results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the quality of spun content is much lower. It won&#8217;t resonate with readers. Therefore, it won&#8217;t get many social media shares. It also won&#8217;t receive many incoming links. Social networks are very important for online marketing now. This might be the technique&#8217;s worst flaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay. So it\u2019s pretty obvious that automated spinning is bad, and you should never do it. But what about spinning an article manually? Is that alright?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes and no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re re-imagining it (or paying a writer to do so) in order for the content to appeal to a different\/new audience or from a different perspective, that\u2019s perfectly acceptable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the same deal if you change a piece&#8217;s format. For example, you might republish a blog post as a video. Then again, I would argue these practices aren&#8217;t truly &#8220;content spinning.&#8221; They actually require the marketer to put in some effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing can be tough work, particularly if you\u2019re trying to optimize a piece so that it shows up in search. It can thus be quite difficult not to succumb to the temptation offered by black hat marketing techniques such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aseohosting.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/why-you-should-never-ever-spin-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">content spinning<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth is, though? There\u2019s no easy, one-click, sure-fire way to produce great content. If you think there is, you\u2019re probably just creating more spam to clog up the arteries of the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing can be pretty rough work, and putting together a piece of quality content that\u2019s both properly search-optimized and valuable to the reader can be a very tall order. 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