Stephan Miller

13 May, 2008

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.

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14 Responses to "Article Spinning and Content Creation"

1 | beth in greensboro

May 13th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

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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.

2 | Stephan Miller

May 13th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

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I never thought of other languages. That would be an indemand tool if you ever got it finished.

3 | Funked

May 13th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

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Chat Bots, now that would be interesting. It would be pretty cool if you could get something like that for your comments section.

4 | Mirjam

May 14th, 2008 at 1:46 am

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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 :P

5 | Stephan Miller

May 14th, 2008 at 5:13 am

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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.

6 | Mirjam

May 14th, 2008 at 6:55 am

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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

7 | Stephan Miller

May 14th, 2008 at 8:01 am

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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.

8 | Bathroom Vanity Cabinets guide

May 15th, 2008 at 12:39 am

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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.

9 | Stephan Miller

May 15th, 2008 at 7:44 am

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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.

10 | Dennis Edell

May 15th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

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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.

11 | Dennis Edell

May 15th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

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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?

Dennis Edell’s last blog post..7 Ways To Boost Sales

12 | Stephan Miller

May 15th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

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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.

13 | seo

May 18th, 2008 at 12:54 am

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Chatbots seems intesting and i am very much interested to know more about it..

14 | links for 2008-05-22

May 21st, 2008 at 10:33 pm

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