Affiliate Marketing Business ProjectsProjects And Case Studies In Internet Marketing Using Pay Per Click And SEO Link Building

The past years I’ve been hooked to affiliate and internet marketing, article writing has always been a big concern, mainly because I work fulltime in our home based business. Initially when it was just one or two sites I’m maintaining, it’s possible that I could come up with postings regularly every week at least.

But, when it came to a point where I have accumulated lots of websites at every monetization niche possible - things became really messy.

To solve this, at first - using PLR articles as content seemed a very feasible option, but if hundreds of other affiliate marketers are using the same articles as you are, it just would not work. Websites that I put up can’t even rank in search even after doing promotion after promotion after promotion.

That’s when I decided to actively search for a writer to outsource articles writing to.

Looking for the right people to write articles for different topics or niches is a pain in the ass and downright expensive. My budget for article writing outsourcing is limited, so of course, you have to do a lot of research to find someone who is a very good writer, as well as easy on the pocket.

Being of Filipino roots, of course, I gravitated towards Filipino writers IN the Philippines. I thought then that because I speak the language, know the culture and have employed Filipinos before coming to Canada, looking for qualified writers would be a piece of cake. I should have known better.

It was a very difficult process to go into because, although there are many who can write in good English, it is difficult and expensive to find the right people who have a feel and focus of what you’re aiming for. I’m sure a lot of online business people who’ve tried finding the right candidate for article writing knows what I’m talking about.

Anyway, long story short - I found the right people and started sending them article writing tasks for my websites.

As a business person, though, I always try to find ways to get more bang for my money. Although I’m paying for very good but cheap articles already, the businessman in me still kept looking for ways to make article marketing at the lowest cost possible. One dollar ($1.00) per article is what I aimed for, no matter how many words per article it is.

For months, I kept researching for the solution to the problem until I finally found it. And what is it? Articles spinning.

With this article writing method, I will be able to produce hundreds of unique articles that I can use for the various link building methods that I’m employing to build backlinks to my sites. It can be used for article directories, web 2.0 sites and other sites where an article as content will be accepted by site owners.

The criteria that I aimed for in trying to produce hundreds of cheap articles for distribution are:

1) Must be at least 60% unique

2) Must be able to produce hundreds or even thousands of spun articles out of one key topic

3) Spun articles produced must not only be reader friendly but must also be search engine friendly

4) Spun articles produced have to be $1.00 or less per article after maximum production is achieved

For example, if I spend $50 for a set of article rewritten 5 times (that’s $10 for each rewrite), I’m expecting to produce 50 unique articles of at least 60% uniqueness from the mother article or from each other, with my keywords/keyphrase target intact and 100% human readable/friendly.

I probably spent thousands of dollars just to perfect this technique because:

1) Each sample that my writers produced, I gladly paid for even if it is not the result I need. For me, money is only secondary to quality and I don’t mind spending as long as I know that my objective was slowly being met thru continous trial and error.

2) I spent hundreds just to find the right software that’ll help my writers mass produce the articles after manually spinning each topic. Human intervention in article spinning is necessary so that the article output would also come out comprehensible and not garbage like those synonym changing softwares. We only need the software to mathematically produce the maximum article variations that a set of spun article can possibly output.

The result of months of trial and error and very expensive experiment on spinning articles is, I would say, very satisfactory because me and my team are able to reach what we’re aiming for.

All of the criteria I specified are met and above all, each niche website of mine have at least 6 months supply of unique articles (weekly postings) from just one niche article topic. And to top it all, each article, after mass production only cost a maximum of a dollar. Human and search engine friendly, too.

I also compared our work to the services of UniqueArticleWizard.com, SubmitYourArticle.com or TrafficKahuna.com - the articles spinning technique that was built-in their system is not like what my team can produce.

It would be easy for them to match my technique, but they’ll surely spend the same amount of money or even more than what I spent just to perfect the system. I sure hope they do for the sake of their paying members.

Throughout the course of optimizing my websites, I have discovered the truth behind what they say that “content is king.” Article writing has greatly helped me rank my sites higher in the search engine. By using this method, I’m able to tell my audience what I have to offer and how it differs from similar stuff in the market – all while I build my links.

Over the years, I have also realized that content requires BOTH good quality and great quantity. I was focused on quality content before, but I had to face a new problem later on – quantity. These days, a couple of copies seem no longer enough – they’re only buried under the increasing number of materials submitted to article directories everyday.
But how was I to create numerous copies on a limited time? I guess even the most excellent writer can’t come up with a huge number of original copies in a day.

The solution that I found came in the form of article spinning. Ever heard of this? This process works on the premise of creating multiple unique copies out of an already existing copy. All I have to do is to create one original article, and then spin it with the help of a spinning software so that I have various copies to submit to article directories in the end—all with a higher percentage of uniqueness.

I’ve learned that articles spinning is a good method when it comes to improving the quantity side of article writing, but there are instances when it’s not all success. There are different methods to do a spin, and I have experimented with all of them to see which will give the best results.

• Word Spin. By far the simplest, this method changes each word with one of the word’s synonyms such that there’ll be a different sentence at the end of the spin.

• Sentence Spin. This method revises the copy per sentence. It’s not necessary for all the words in the sentence to change. Sometimes, change can be done on the structure of the sentence while the original words are retained.

• Paragraph Spin. This method borders somewhere in between a spin and a complete revision. The idea is to replace words with their synonyms and to jumble sentences, all while keeping the original thought in the paragraph intact.

These are the most commonly used methods in article spinning, but they’re not guaranteed successful per se. I’ve discovered the downside in some of these methods.

The problem with the word spin usually lies on the fact that every word, though synonymous, may have variations in meaning. Some words, although similar to the original, do not convey the right meaning when chosen as substitutes. The problem with the sentence spin, on the other hand, has to do with certain instances when the generated sentences do not sound well when combined with each other. That problem can also happen with paragraph spin.

In both cases, I observed that the final copies pass the uniqueness percentage set by article directories, but they don’t give the right meaning. Therefore, I can conclude they won’t attract much traffic at all.

Luckily, I guess I have found out what’s missing in the equation – human touch. The best solution is not to rely fully on an article spinning software. While a software can help generate tons of synonyms for each of the words in the original copy in an instant, it doesn’t have the brain to tell which of the synonyms best convey the meaning I want to impart to my readers.

So now, in the article writing, articles spinning, and article submission service that I offer, I have teamed-up real human writers doing the work and monitoring the software’s output to ensure that they are not only unique but also readable.