Recently I have been doing a lot of reading up on article spinning. There have been some requests for it on my job and though I haven't taken any curiosity got the better of me and I decided to look into what it is all about. Not being as computer savvy as many people in the business I was therefore a little surprised to discover that spinning is taking an article and changing adjectives and sentence structure to make the article appear to be original. Someone who is good at spinning can take an article directly off the net and without adding any new content, can make an almost an entirely new article from the someone elses work.

There are actually two types of spinning. One is manual where you do the exchange of sentence structure and adjectives yourself, line by line paragraph by paragraph. The second is automatic or jet spinning where there is an article already written with choices of adjectives supplied and you simply pick the adjectives you want to use.

Spinning is used to increase your views from different sites. Search engines require than an article have a certain percentage of originally to be picked up by them. So, if you want to publish one article on various sites to increase your views and your income then spinning that article might pay off in terms of better SEO and therefore more views. It can also allow you to publish virtually the same article on two websites that require you to have original content as the article you have spun appears to be original when run through copyscape or other websites that check for plagiarism.

At first, I thought that this could lead to many people virtually using others work and passing it off on their own which I thought was kind of dishonest. However, after taking a couple of my own articles and having a go at spinning them I found that spinning requires a great deal of skill and isn't as easy as it appears. For people who are not practiced in this art writing an entirely new article is much faster than trying to spin an old one.

However, spinning can be an asset for a writer wanting to get the most mileage out of their own work and so it might be wise for writers to learn to be proficient at this skill. If nothing else it gives you practice in searching out adjectives that can enhance your overall writing.

The most difficult part of spinning an article is making it appear and sound new without changing the original meaning of the article. This can be quite a feat to achieve. While most of us will never use this method on a regular basis, practicing it can help improve various writing skills so it is a handy tool to put in our writing arsenal.