The Article Spinner And The Scam - Is There A Difference   by Mike Hutcheson

in Marketing / Article Marketing    (submitted 2011-01-16)

Is it possible that the invention of the article spinner is a scam? Read the opinion of one article writer and see if you agree.

Before giving my honest opinion about article spinning software, or my definition of a scam for that matter, it is only fair that I remind you that this is only my opinion, and everyone has their own.

Since the invention of the article spinner, hundreds, thousands and probably even millions of articles have been submitted and published using a special software known as an article spinner.

This spinning software takes a writer's article and what I refer to as "Fluff"(several other similar paragraphs, sentences or even just words), and creates hundreds or thousands more articles that are all a little different from each other in an attempt to avoid the duplicate content penalty by the search engines.

This is done primarily by article marketers who are trying to drive more traffic to their website, blog or anywhere they want their readers to go. It is simple reasoning, the more articles published the more links back to their site, the more backlinks the better search engine ranking and so forth and so on.

It all sounds pretty good huh?

Before going any farther, I must admit that I have also created an article writer's software that includes a spinner(Article Edge 1.0), but this software only spins the titles, and only to help in opening up ideas for the article's body that is manually wrote by the user.

This is a far cry from an article spinner that spins the body of the article, as the body is where you are giving the reader information that they were seeking.

So with that being said, when we look at the big picture of the article spinners, and the effects that they could have on the internet (and us) in the long run, it could actually be devastating.

In my opinion, the problem with this is that only the original article was actually written by a "human being", the other hundred or thousand or more from that one article is just a random set of fluff that is pieced together to form a backlink for someone's website.

Something else to keep in mind is, if someone takes 1 original article and uses an article spinner software to spin only 99 more copies, making it an even 100 articles total, then 99% of the articles are just computer generated fluff that may or may not make any sense and may or may not actually relay the original article's purpose to the reader.

I have personally seen at least 2 of my own articles republished by someone that had used a spinner, and spun them into something that did not make any sense whatsoever, and they still had my resource box with my name it at the bottom.

Here are a few things for you to think about. How often do you think people use the internet to get information about something, anything? How many times have you heard the phrase "I read it in an article about...?".

In other words, people use articles to get information all the time, and if a large percent of this information is computer generated fluff articles, "how accurate is the information we are giving to each other? When will it stop and what can we do about it?

Ok, so is the article spinner a scam?

I don't think so.

A scam is a delibrate attempt or success at deceiving someone into any action for personal gain in one form or another.

The article spinner is a mistake, as it was created with good intentions of making the article marketers job easier and also for monetary gains for the creator, but without the consequences taken into consideration, or if they were, they were ignored.

With more article spinners being developed everyday, what will our internet be like in 20 years from now?

No one will know, because that information may just be fluff.

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