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Google’s response to article marketing spinners and other dubious SEO techniques

When you think about it Google is always looking for ways to improve its users experience when searching for relevant content.  More and more sophisticated algorithms are being developed  by  Google as it constantly battles with dubious search engine optimisation techniques.  Search engine optimisation methods which are in effect ensuring that the user experience searching for quality and relevant information is less rather than more satisfactory. One such dubious method is article spinning.  The idea behind article spinners is that you can write one quality article and then use alternative words and phrases to make many copies of the article with specifically designed software for the task.  In effect the basic content or message  of the article remains the same only the words are changed for the benefit of the search engines.  This assumes that Google, Bing and other well known search engines are incapable of detecting that the article is just one of many other similar copies of th