Article Spinning and Plagiarism, Your Reward For Writing Good Content
Article Spinning describes a SEO black hat method capable of producing multiple paraphrased articles from a single ‘seed’ article. Spinning turns article syndication sites into link farms that spammers and plagiarists can plunder at will in order to generate links for Adsense sites and splogs. With so much great content online why bother writing at all, Article Spinning Software makes it easy to steal the work of others and pass it off as their own.
Today, plagiarism is an enormous problem for webmasters, unfortunately there is very little that can be done to stop it. If you are unfortunate to have good content that targets
the same keywords that the plagiarist wants to rank for that’s just your tough luck. It only takes a few minutes to copy and paste your work into an article spinner and alter a few words and phrases here and there to create a new article, or should I say a few hundred paraphrased articles.
Because of the way article spinning software is sold and the marketing hype that surrounds it literally thousands of new spammers are being created every day. These people have fallen for the hype and are busy ‘repositioning’ all the articles they have written in the past and submitting them to article directories. However the tactic is all about getting links, it has nothing to do with creating unique content that the intended reader, and presumably potential customer, can put to any use. Reading fifty spun articles will impart no more information than reading just one. Creating content in this way is done with the sole intention of gaming search engine results and is nothing more than link spam.
Article spinning is an accident waiting to happen. I don’t expect it will be long before search engines and article directories find a way to spot and weed out spun content. Indeed if article directories wish to survive they need to take action, the ones that don’t will eventually lose credibility and become little more link farms. Ezinearticles.com, the leading article directory, will not accept articles that advocate spinning or the use of Article Sinning software. Google is working on a better algorithm in order to cope with link spam and are asking that you report any instance of suspected link spam that you encounter.
Those who make a profession of spamming fully understand the consequences of their action and use throwaway domains and spam blogs. If they get spotted the simply move on and do the same thing over and over again. However, if you are a business with long term goals and aspirations article spinning will only create problems in the future. Are you prepared to have your website banned from all the major search engines and start all over?