It seemed like a brilliant idea. What better way to climb up the ladder of search engine optimization success than by producing a high quantity of content with “automatic” article spinning software? You could save money on hiring writers and could also exploit the original quality article by recycling its words. Plagiarism vs. Spinning In some respects, article spinning is more ethical than simply “scraping” a site, or even worse, plagiarizing the content without giving proper credit. Technically speaking, spinning software does create “original content”, at least content that is usually capable of passing a “duplication test” (such as CopyScape or ArticleChecker). Article spinning or automatic content producers operate by taking existing articles and then automatically using a thesaurus database …
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