A while back, I made a video series about article spinning. A few forum-discussions on the topic as well as the fact that I have been on the receiving end of some spun articles lately, inspired me to make the video you can find below. If you saw my three tips on how to make use of spinning syntax, you already know that I never spin the entire article content. This is also explained a bit further in this video:
As mentioned in the video, I’d love to hear what your take on this whole content spinning thing is and if your experience has been different from mine, I’d be very interested to know in learning more about it.
Squidoo is a very popular article database. Actually, calling it an article database is a complete understatement. While the underlying principle is similar to that of an article database – you can register, publish your own content and also link back to your websites – Squidoo has a lot more to offer. What mainly sets it apart is that you can add a lot of multimedia and interactive elements to each of your pages (called “lenses” on Squidoo). From images and slideshows to videos, polls and digg-like voting elements, there is a huge selection of fun stuff you can add to each of your lenses.
Since Squidoo even allows affiliate links and encourages it’s users to make money (there’s a revenue sharing model), it’s a great resource for every online marketer or article marketer. I’ve put together a series of instructional videos that go into some detail on how to build a lens, how to add in multimedia elements and how to promote the lens to get more visitors and clicks.
Someone made the suggestion to me to make some tutorials about Squidoo, an interesting article/webpage publishing service that many online marketers use for a bit of article marketing and backlink building. I will be publishing a series of Squidoo tutorials here, shortly. Before that, let’s take a look at some of the top-ranked lenses out there to see what we can learn about making great Squidoo lenses.
Okay, this video is mostly for your amusement. After having stated in one of my videos, that “robots are stupid” and suggesting you should stay away from automatic spinning software, I thought I should back this up with an example.
I found a free trial of an automatic spinner and entered two example sentences:
Article spinning robots can really screw up your texts.
I suggest you always do article spinning manually or at least supervise the automatic spinning process.
See the video below to find out what the (word-replacing) tool made of these sentences:
So, the spun text ended up being:
Article moving bots can truly propeller up your texts.
My persuasion is to e’er do article spinning manually or at littlest observe the semiautomatic moving touch.
I particularly like the “e’er”. Very contemporary. Remember that this was a completely random variation, by the way. I didn’t try several times to find the silliest version, or anything like that.
I don’t mean to bash article spinners in general. I haven’t tested any of the paid ones extensively and I can’t judge whether they are all useless. As I said: This video is partially for amusement purposes.
If you want real, valuable information, check out my videos on article spinning. There’s also an overview of all my videos here.
In this video, I explain in more detail how you can use article spinning software to improve the click-through rate on your articles. The way we are going to do this is by testing different resource boxes against each other to see which ones get the best CTR. The video explains how to do this and I also offer three practical tips on what kinds of variations to test and how to do the testing.
And this concludes my video-series on article spinning and spyntax (for now).
Would love to hear what you thought about these videos. Of course, there are more to come (on different subjects) and I’ll be doing a bunch of video reviews not too long from now.
