Hawkster
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- Jun 22, 2013
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Lol this post should have a thread of its own. Infact i think you should do that to create some more discussion on the subject.
People posting shit here on this thread have never even done any testing of their own. If they did, they would know that spun content works perfectly fine AS LONG AS the spintax article generates completely readable articles with 90%+ uniqueness (between the articles). Such a very high quality spintax article cannot be done with any automated tool, it requires hours of manual tedious soul-crushing work, so you would outsource it of course. Here is the cost/benefit analysis for both approaches:
1) Unique articles - 3$ each min, readable and passes manual review. For a network consisting of 100 PBN-s, the cost will be $300 just to write 1 "money site" article (where you link to your sites). If you wanna leave your PBN-s with just these kind of posts and no other filler articles, then there are no more costs in this aspect.
However, you are completely vulnerable to a manual review, because a reviewer (and any 5-year old kid for that matter) will immediately flag your network (or whatever sites from the network that he found) within 5 minutes. Don't get me wrong, I have sites ranking with crappy PBN-s just like these and have also found other guys (lots of them) ranking with such low quality PBN-s for tons of keywords. All of us got lucky that we haven't been reviewed yet, but such PBN-s are timed bombs, that can never explode or explode someday in the near future.
Now, if you post other filler articles as well to reduce footprints, you would post at least an article per month per site. So, again for an 100-site network, you will have $300 extra cost per month. If you write articles every other month, the cost drops 2x to $150 per month. So, to recap, total cost is:
$300 for each money-site article you write!
$150/month min to maintain your sites!
These costs are calculated by keeping in mind that you can find decent writers to write readable articles for $3 each (~ 500 words). 99% of such writers that will take the bid for such low prices write like they learnt English yesterday, so most of the times, you will have to put in serious efforts to find the writers and you might also end up spending more money in the process of testing them.
2) HQ spun articles - to generate a spintax article that produces hundreds of different variations completely readable able to pass manual reviews AND with 90%+ uniqueness between the variations, you are looking at a cost of $70-100 per spintax article if you outsource it in the SEO forums' marketplaces. If you outsource it in-house, depending on where you live, the cost can go as low as $50 per article (I have managed to do this myself).
Now, this kind of spintax article can populate ALL of the sites in your network, so it will only cost you $100 (taking the upper bound) for 100 sites in the network. The more sites you have in the network, the lower the cost per site article is. Of course, there is a limit to how many variations you can produce without degrading the uniqueness level, but with a HUGE HQ spintax article, you are looking at hundreds of variations with no sweating at all.
To maintain the networks, the cost will be $100 per month if you write each month and $50 per month if you write every other month.
So, to recap, the total cost is:
$100 for each money-site article you write!
$50 min to maintain your sites!
As you can see, the total cost is AT LEAST 3x less if you use spun articles. The benefit is the same. You will sleep properly at night as well if you use proper spun readable & unique articles. The risk is the same in both approaches. So, why the fuck should you use "unique" garbage articles written by people who translate most of the words anyway?! The whole "content is king" & "use unique handwritten articles only for PBN-s/web 2.0-s" is yet another myth and misinformation in the world of SEO. If someone gives you this kind of shit propaganda again, direct them to this post and shut their mouth up!!!