Reuse that content
So you have some content. You wrote it, or you paid to have it written. Or, you got it somewhere. PLR? Article services? Elsewhere?
Do you only use it once? You don’t buy a new pair of shoes, wear them once, then toss them out do you? Ofcourse not. Why should your hard earned content get thrown out after only one use? It shouldn’t.
All of the content you have ever gotten, or will ever get, should be saved and used like the gold that it is. Your collection of articles is your content corpus. You can use, and reuse, it time and again.
One way that I reuse content is to add some of my handwritten content to an article I gathered up from *somewhere*. There are two advantages and one disadvantage to this technique. At least that’s from where I’m sitting right this minute.
- If you have a 350 word article that you add 100 words to, you have a 450 word article that is 29% different from the original.
- You can easily include ‘in context’ links and insert your desired keywords where you want them.
The biggest disadvantage to this is that it doesn’t scale very easily. It can be done (I’ve done it), but the results aren’t very good sometimes. Other times it’s perfect. Go figure.
Another way to reuse your content is to ’spin’ it. Now, I’m not endorsing any product here. Neither am I slamming any particular product. So, when I used the term ’spin’, it doesn’t relate to any product that may, or may not, have that term in it’s title or web promotion pages. I merely use it to indicate changing the wording or the meaning of an article.
There are a lot of content spinners around. Some are decent, most are a piece of dog shit. <<–Pardon my french fries. I’ve used several of them. Tried out several more. Paid good money for some of the worst ones.
A great many of the spinners rely on variations of the Markov Chains. I use several different versions of Mr. Markov’s excellent tool myself. You can find several of them around the net. If you haven’t ever tried to mash up some content with a markov() script, you should.
Some spinners use synonym replacement. That’s ok if the designer/programmer built a large enough dictionary of words to use. I’ve seen a couple of them floating around the web so, it shouldn’t be too hard to find one.
Some spinners use a translate/retranslate system. What this amounts to is pasting your article into a translator application, then putting the result back into the application and have it translated back to the original language. Depending on the translation ap and the language you are translating to/from, the results could vary from OK to ‘wtf is this shit’.
You’ll have to judge what method (or combination of methods) provides the best bang for the buck. We each have different ideas about what standards to apply to our content.
That’s it for this trip. See ya.
~dink
Comment by J
Hi Dink,
What is the minimum level of difference you aim for and can you recommend tools to check this (difference)?
Comment by Dink
Hi J,
My min level of difference varies depending on what I want the content to do. If I’m just posting the content to get spider action, I’ll just put in without much editing at all.
If I’m using the content within a page generator, especially one that uses the markov() function, I’ll add about 20-25% original stuff. Note that I use a whole lot of reference material for the markov to compare with. My minimum no. of words in the reference is 2k. It goes up from there depending on the niche.
If I’m making a post on a blog that I own, then I use at least 50% new content. Mixing sentences and paragraphs so that it is different.
I haven’t used any tools that tell me what percentage of difference there is between two texts. I’m sure they are out there. Maybe copyscape does that. Don’t know. I just fly by the seat of my chair.
BTW, welcome. Feel free to ask questions, make pointed comments, suggestions, or just general hell raising. This blog is as much for you as it is for me.
Comment by J
Hi Dink,
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
I was told to go for 40% + difference which is easy if you are using Markov
When using Markov I usually find 10 decent articles to seed from, 300 - 500 words each, so 3-5k words in total. From that I will gen maybe 1000 blog posts.
The problem I have with Markov is monetisation… I have WH sites and do not want to risk my adsense account, and have not found anything else that converts. Also I do not have the infrastructure to do it properly in terms of servers / ip’s / anonymity…
So I have not used Markov for a while and am currently re-writing using synonyms, which I enter manually.
Needless to say, editing synonyms manually is very time consuming so it is only gonna work if I can gen a lot of content from it… hence my worries about the level of difference.
I am currently working on a spinner which takes content from a product database and creates “reviews” of each product. I am mixing up as much as I can, using at least 5 variant of each sentence, changing order of sentences / blocks etc…
The spinner will output RSS which I will scrape back into 5 blogs using WP-Omatic:
http://devthought.com/wp-o-matic-the-wordpress-rss-agreggator/ )
I plan to gen up 1k + posts on each blog, making 5k posts in total, but I really don’t know if the level of variance I can achieve will be good enough for that number of posts….
If they don’t get any traffic I will whore the pages out on TNX.net to buy links back into other sites… have you looked at TNX.net?
Comment by J
Oh yeah, should have explained the reason I am entering synonyms manually is so articles read perfectly… not like they have been put through the google trans
latormanglerComment by Dink
>>Thanks for taking the time to reply.< <
My pleasure.
>>I was told to go for 40% + difference which is easy if you are using Markov< <
Sounds good to me.
>>I have WH sites and do not want to risk my adsense account, and have not found anything else that converts.< <
There are all sorts of affiliate programs out there J. Any of them will pay out more than adcents. Take some time to check out Commission Junction and Shareasale. Find a couple of programs that semi match your content and plop up some banners. You can even write an original article to be the intro to your markoved shite.
>>I am currently working on a spinner which takes content from a product database and creates “reviews” of each product. I am mixing up as much as I can, using at least 5 variant of each sentence, changing order of sentences / blocks etc…< <
Sounds perfect for affil marketing. Give it a shot.
>>I plan to gen up 1k + posts on each blog, making 5k posts in total, but I really don’t know if the level of variance I can achieve will be good enough for that number of posts<<
I think it will be enough variance if you make your blog so that it only shows one post per page. That way the viewers won’t get (too) confused.
Nope, haven’t looked at TNX. I will though. Thanks.
And, yes, I understand the synonymizer making perfect output. I like it for sites where there will be real viewers.
Good comments. Keep us posted on how it’s working out.
~dink
Comment by Levon
Thanks for your lowdown on the content generators. I need one to re-write content just a little so it doesn’t look like its been lifted. I will check out markov.