Article Spinning and Content Creation
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If I actually like to write, why am I looking into artificial content creation. Because it’s interesting. I am on the trail of building a contextual matching system and I was thinking that maybe there was a key to it in artificial content creation.
Plus I bought a huge PLR package a few weeks ago just to test a few things. I figured I could use a spinner to create totally new jumbles of words which I would then edit and add to, to create new articles that I would pre load blogs with. I have a few blogs planned just to test the system with and didn’t want to go through writing all of my own content. The blogs will run almost completely on autopilot for the first month. (That was an affiliate link to software I am thinking of using to keep the posts going without my input. But just timestamping may be good enough.).
Then after the initial articles and promotion, hopefully I would have a few longtail keywords saved from search engine hits to give me ideas for more articles that I myself would write from scratch.
Synonymizers
These pieces of software find synonyms in the given text and replace them with synonyms. The articles turn out pretty readable and with a few edits will turn a Private Label Rights article into something totally different than it began.
Markov Chains
I don’t want to get into the math of this one, but it takes text and turns into something that looks good with a quick visual scan, but as you look closer, the text is just a jumble of random words.
Chat Bots
I haven’t seem this done yet, but I have heard mention of it as an idea somewhere, maybe a forum. If chat bot’s can work with chat, chances are they can create content that can pass the test even with a few human readers.
I will probably be using a synonymizer. I with load the PLR articles up and then edit what it spits out. It will keep me from using any of the phrases from the original. I have never been really great at paraphrasing. It’s must easier for me to remove the temptation of the original article.
I figure I would give myself 15 minutes per article or maybe less. Because if I don’t set a time limit, the purpose of buying articles instead of writing them is defeated. Starting out, I will set the posts for every two days. In four hours, I could have a month’s worth of posts ready an waiting.
I will use this time to perfect a static promotion algorithm. By static, I mean it has an end in sight and gets links, like submitting to feed directories or giving away a custom theme. Eventually, you move on and promote through comments, social networks and more continuous methods of promotion. The most massive list of ideas I have found for building links is here. Props. I’m not worthy.
Software for Article Spinning
There is free software and pay software and this list is far from exhaustive, but I will go through a few I have found.
RSSGM
This is an old one. The source files haven’t been updated since 2005. It’s free and it’s software to build complete spam farms.
YACG
Yet Another Content Generator has been updated pretty frequently and is also free. It also builds huge spam sites. You have to sign up for the forum and wait to be accepted to download the latest version.
Others
Both of the software above are pretty neat to play around with, but I am not out to spam search engines as I said. Here is the details to another tool for creating new content on Wordpress blogs. It is still in development.
For my job, something like this will do or maybe even this.
This was just an overview, a very small one. If you really want to get into it, search Google for YACG or RSSGM and you should come up with a lot more information.


That’s interesting on the synonimizer. I tried (fruitlessly) for about 3 days to right a php hunt and replace algo for spanish words. I figured I could reproduce all the database in alternate languages. I lost interest very fast.
I never thought of other languages. That would be an indemand tool if you ever got it finished.
Chat Bots, now that would be interesting. It would be pretty cool if you could get something like that for your comments section.
I´m doing the exact thing at present so this post can have some interesting links for me to look into, thanks
about the other languages… sounds interesting, but anything I have used so far to make speedy translations of articles turned out to s*ck, I am probablly faster doing a good translation myself
Probably so. There is also a Wordpress plugin I tried that is supposed to use Google and other services to translate posts. It worked for a while, then started acting crazy, like redirecting to the home page. There is s new version now, so I might check it out again.
@funked I think I actually ran into that idea in connection with forums, like a forum bot. It probably would work. Or already does. I didn’t look that far into it yet.
Oh man, I tried a few plugins for wordpress but they all messed up everything and the few translations that came out without a prob were really bad, so I took them off asap LOL
I wouldn’t know, LOL, except for maybe the Spanish translations. As far as the other languages went, I just crossed my fingers. But I bet whoever landed on the pages thought they were MFA sites in their language.
It’s always recommended that you write your own content - regardless of any time restraints you may have. SEs can weed out generated content from legit content. However, you can make up for crap content with links. It’s the same thing with duplicate content. Look at the news sites, they feature the same stories from the AP. Why don’t they get penalized? Links.
I do plan on writing my own articles. I am just using the synonymizer as a tool and the PLR articles as the base for the blog. Another reason for new sites getting high ranking is that they mix up the content. One block of text may be similar, but the page as a whole with 20 separate content sources is new content. It’s a percentage.
In essence, if you break a page down to each word, every page on the internet is duplicate content. They have to draw the line somewhere.
Chat bots do not “work” with chat, they suck real bad…I wouldn’t waste a second on it.
I would however be very interested in your findings and what software you eventually used. I looked into it at one time and found nothing but negative reviews regarding ALL “spinner, auto-content” type programs.
BTW, great list of links, but I’d copy and paste it somewhere instead of a bookmark…seems like the site hasn’t been updated in 6 months, who knows if it’ll be there for long.
Is the CL plugin no longer working here?
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I did the same. Scrapbook for Firefox works great for things like that. I actually did bookmark a site like that once and it was gone the next day. Had to find the Google cache to get the info.
Chatbots seems intesting and i am very much interested to know more about it..
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It’s interesting to me how many techniques there are for content creation. Aside from utilizing internal and external links, coming up with new content, and new ways to find content, are probably the most important things to focus on when writing for a blog.
The best content is unique content. My old lazy self was showing through on this post.
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I agree with you completely. Article spinning is indeed VERY POWERFUL, if done right. I once heard someone saying article spinning is for the lazy folks. Well, as strange as it might sound, article spinning is actually for those that are NOT lazy.
But of course, I am talking about the RIGHT way of spinning your articles. There’s the wrong way and the right way. The wrong way is when you just automatically use the synonym replacement aspect of article spinning software to spit out completely unreadable gibberish, in the name of articles. That’s just junk and no one can read even one sentence from such junk articles.
But if you really want to get the best from article spinning, then a great deal of effort is required to put into the original work. By a lot of effort I am talking about investing several hours or even days to get one SEED article or a group of SEED articles rewritten with different phrases, sentences and paragraphs. If done right, just one SEED article can be uniquely spun into hundreds or even thousands of copies that can escape the duplicate content filter!
One of MOST POWERFUL article spinning tools out there that is completely free is PlugAndSpin Article Spinning Software .
Fred Myson
http://www.PlugAndSpin.com
Fred Myson
I will give your software a try.
Spinning articles, much like anything else, can be used for both good and evil. I would argue that it’s a “necessary evil” at the very least.
Your readers might find the following post I wrote some time ago on the ethics of article spinning interesting:
http://spunwrite-blog.com/2007/06/18/on-the-ethics-of-article-spinning/
Thanks for the great post!
–Paul
There’s only one ’spinner’ that produces readable unique content - contentboss. Just thought I’d mention it seeing as all the ‘usual suspects’ have popped up on here trying to push their useless synonymizers.
Content wrangling. It’s the future.
Speaking of the ‘usual suspects,’ ContentBoss, why don’t you kindly rename your spam blog that uses my TRADEMARKED business name to promote your ridiculous “software” as I politely asked via a comment at the same blog (your contact information is mysteriously absent…hmmmm)? Should be an indication of who you’re doing business with, if you’re actually considering using this program.
Thanks,
Paul Pullen, SpunWrite.com
If it’s a blog, get google to pull it. It’s nothing to do with us. Perhaps it’s one of the many enemies you’ve made over the last few months by pretending that your expensive half-assed service is anything but away to extract money from newbies who don’t know any better.