Content Spinning: Can this SEO Trick Fool the Search Engines?

The Latest Trick in Search Engine Optimization

The latest weapon in the optimization wars between search engines and sites that want better search ranking is called content spinning. Search engines check to make sure the pages they index are not duplicated on another site. This is a problem for site owners that are trying to make money on ads by publishing articles written by others on a large network of sites and blogs. When hundreds of pages are all using the same article, some or all of them are penalized for having duplicate content.

In an attempt to evade the penalty, some website owners are spinning their content. Spinning is the astoundingly bad idea of taking an article and editing it to appear unique by changing some words to words with similar meaning. Real rewriting takes time and effort. These people prefer to make money without working, so the spinners use software to automagically produce unique content.

I checked out what happens when you spin content and ... WTF! OMG!!! ROFLMAO!!!! It's not content, it's barely English! Here's an original paragraph. I know it's original, because I wrote it several years ago.

Each web page on your site has a top and bottom ... and variable width and length controlled by the user's preferences and hardware. The one predictable thing about any browser is that it starts at the top of the page. This gives you a consistent place to put important information, or content overviews. It also gives the reader a quick glance at what you feel is the main point of the site or the page. The further down the page you put information, the less importance the reader will give to it, and the less likely it is to be seen.

I ran it through a popular content spinning program that I shall call the Wordinator and this is the result: