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Is Rewriting Your Article Like ‘Spinning’?

What is the difference between rewriting and article spinning? Not much really, but when I think about article spinning I think about one of those software programs that take your article and rearrange the sentences so that they don’t really make any sense any more. It’s a terrible way to rewrite an article because a part of the writing process involves making each sentence contribute to the meaning of a paragraph and making each paragraph flow into the next so that you have a cohesive article about one topic that addresses a specific question in the reader’s mind. If you simply rearrange the sentences then you end up with a jumbled mess.

Rewriting an article means taking the basic concept and rewriting toward the same goal from scratch. It’s like writing a completely different article except the two articles are about the same thing and use the same keywords. See the difference?

Whether you call it rewriting or article spinning, the main thing to consider when you take an existing article and repurpose it with different language is how much of your article contains duplicate content with the first. Ideally you don’t want a single sentence to be duplicated. If you rewrite your article well then you can avoid that pitfall. If you simply “spin” it you might leave something out – or in, I should say.

What about you? Do you spin your articles or rewrite them?