TheGardenGnome
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- May 22, 2013
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Although this is a year old but definitely viable and so so legit! Thanks!
I don't (much). I certainly never put spun stuff on my own sites or first tier.
But sometimes you need a ton of content quick. My system for that is pretty costly to set up but takes relatively short time for decent results.
I convert my keywords to 12 of the most common languages (Chinese, French, German, Spanish etc)
Scrape say 50 articles from each language or some number like that using the translated keywords
Convert them all to english using Babylon 9
Put them into a system like word AI (but NOT word AI - at least not at the moment)
That initial 600 articles (now all english) good for maybe 10-20 posts per article (maybe 8,000 - 10,000 posts in all then). Nearly all pass copyscape 75% and are mostly readable (not too bad anyway - it's the translation that messes it up more than the spinning)
Some niches do not have 50 articles written in a foreign language that my scraper can find, and that's a pain in the butt. My scraper is not brilliant, and I struggle to add more sources for articles in certain languages where I haven't got a clue what's been written. It's a bit "hit and miss" sometimes.
Sometimes it is an article that was once English anyway (more often than you'd think..15-20% of the time..amazing really) But it's all about quantity and speed. Use a couple more languages, or scrape a few more from countries that have them - or put up with less raw material.
It can take a while as well (half a day sometimes to go through the lot) but you are left with a shit load of decent 2nd and 3rd tier articles. Enough to abso-frikking-lutely power most moderate niches for months.
A little costly to set up, good article scraper, good translation software, good spinning software normally some proxies and sometimes some captcha solving as well depending on where you are scraping from - but it works well enough.
I've read people using better (and certainly more elegant) systems here on BHW, but I'm sort of used to doing it this way, and it's good enough for me.
Still not a fan of spinning and HATE doing it myself. But sometimes needs must.
Scritty