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Written by Tambiniaina
Updated over a year ago

When and why spinning content can be useful ?

Content spinning is not a recommended practice in SEO because if it is detected by Google, it can penalize the site that uses it.

But, if you have to create a large number of similar pages for which you can not write the content by hand, it may be necessary to use it.

Here are our recommendations in this case:

Do not open all the pages at once to the robot

Start with the pages that have the most potential: for example, if the pages are "real estate agency + city", use this site http://www.lion1906.com/ to find the most populated cities (and also test the search volumes on SmartKeyword). This site can also be useful to find information provided by the INSEE institute to fill in blanks in a text.

Generate spun content

Small very easy online tools to use as soon as you have the synonyms / verb variations etc.. :

Find synonyms

Validating the proximity between two texts

Small tool to compare two texts

Go further: compare n texts

Here is an example of a VBA macro to calculate the Levenshtein distance between two texts:

Option Explicit

Public Function Levenshtein(s1 As String, s2 As String)

Dim i As Integer

Dim j As Integer

Dim l1 As Integer

Dim l2 As Integer

Dim d() As Integer

Dim min1 As Integer

Dim min2 As Integer

l1 = Len(s1)

l2 = Len(s2)

ReDim d(l1, l2)

For i = 0 To l1

d(i, 0) = i

Next

For j = 0 To l2

d(0, j) = j

Next

For i = 1 To l1

For j = 1 To l2

If Mid(s1, i, 1) = Mid(s2, j, 1) Then

d(i, j) = d(i - 1, j - 1)

Else

min1 = d(i - 1, j) + 1

min2 = d(i, j - 1) + 1

If min2 < min1 Then

min1 = min2

End If

min2 = d(i - 1, j - 1) + 1

If min2 < min1 Then

min1 = min2

End If

d(i, j) = min1

End If

Next

Next

Levenshtein = d(l1, l2)

End Function

Complete tool

A fairly complete tool that does both content generation and proximity checking between texts:

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