Just a thought out of nowhere really. Currently, article spinners and the like really don’t do a good job of rewriting content…thankfully. I’ve seen a few of my articles posted online without any backlink or reference to any of my sites but at the very least the text was horribly mangled. I could take comfort in the fact that Google and other SEs could not possibly be dumb enough to grant sites with that kind of content the rankings they don’t deserve. I was also glad there was no backlink as it would have been nearly worthless anyway and I didn’t want my sites associated with that.
What happens, however, when article spinners come to the place of actual decent grammar. It is closer than I imagined…read a comment by someone on just using something like Google translate to take an article through Spanish and then back to English. This would effectively change the wording of the article. What happens when this method is truly perfected?
What if an article spinner could select a particular personality and even education level to rewrite the articles? They may even be able to literally build a virtual journalist eventually. A bot with a pen name, category settings and some personality settings pulling content from related sites and then rewriting it. Editors would probably be required to add relevant images and videos where necessary and manage comments.
I can see the web being flooded with half-decent, ripped-off content. I’m guessing heavily branded sites and blogs would still fare OK but smaller blogs and sites might get drowned out by a new wave of spammy content that doesn’t look spammy at all. It might even look pretty professional.
Thoughts or comments?
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