A FREE Content Spinner

Don't bother scrolling to the bottom for the price.  There isn't one.

Content Spinners have been around for quite a while.  I'm going to assume that if you found this page, you already know what a content spinner is and you have some idea of why you might want one.  I'm a programmer mostly, and while I can sell when I need to, I'm not going to try to sell you on the idea of using a content spinner.

For those of you who might think that a content spinner is evil, I'll just interject here that while many black hat seo guys might use it for evil, there are many legitimate uses for content spinners as well.  A content spinner is just a tool.  It is not evil in and of itself.  What it gets used for, however, may be.

Here's what you get!

Here, in a nutshell, is what this tool will do.  You start out with a string of text:

The quick brown fox jumped over the fence.

Let's say that we want to make this text say something similar each time, but not exactly the same.  We start by tagging the content.  The Super Simple Content Spinner uses % as tagging delimiters, so we'd markup the content like so:

The %quick% %brown% %fox% %jumped% %over% the nce%.

Then elsewhere in our document, we provide replacement text for each tag.  So, %quick% may get replaced with "quick", "fast" or "speedy."  %brown% might get replaced with "brown", "red", or "golden brown."  And you continue on in the document until each tag has a choice of words or phrases it can use.  In the sentence above, if you give each tag 3 choices, you end up with a sentence that has 243 possibilities.

That's basically how it works.  Now, for the finer points.

If we replaced the word "The" in our sentence above with a tag %the% and used the replacement words "a" and "the", we'd have a small problem.  Those words need to be capitalized because they show up at the beginning of the sentence.  To force a word to be capitalized, you can use the tag prefix "U-", so our tag %the% will become %U-the% and when "a" is replaced in, we get:

A quick brown fox ...

There is also the situation where once the system has selected a word, we'd like for it to use that word the next time it encounters the tag.  I call this a sticky tag.  To make a tag sticky, prefix it with "S-"

The %S-quick% brown fox outran the %S-quick% wolf.

You can make a tag both stick and forced to uppercase by using the prefix "US-"

The last feature I've added into this spinner is the ability to back reference a tag.  A back reference lets you provide a choice based on a choice that has already been made.  To illustrate this, let's elaborate our quick brown fox example:

%Name% the quick brown fox combed %pronoun% hair.

The user interface will allow you to specify that pronoun is dependant on the selection made for %Name% and will let you specify what choices to replace %pronoun% with based on what selection was already made for %Name%

Unlike many other spinning programs that are available on the market, this spinner will not force you to use more than one screen to accomplish all of this.  The document is laid out in a simple tree view with only two types of nodes.  There are block nodes and choice nodes.  A block node is give the name of one of the tags you've created and the choice nodes under it are given whatever name you want to give it.  The only time that it will matter what you name the choice nodes is when you want to use a back ref.  The choice nodes in a back ref node will need to name the choice nodes they apply to as a space delimited list.

Here are some screen shots of the Super Simple Content Spinner:

Main Screen with Block node Selected

Child node selected.  Note, the spinner starts by selecting a child node from the first block node so you'll want your main content to be under the first block node.

Back Ref Block

Back Ref Choice

Any choice can reference any other block.  Be careful with this feature because you could end up in an infinite loop by setting up BlockA with choices A1,A2, and A3 where A3 references BlockB with choices B1, B2, and B3 where B3 references BlockA.  Perfectly valid.  However, you do run the risk of that going on forever.

So, that's how it works and basically what it does.  Here's what it won't do:

• It won't write your article for you
• It won't do the substitutions for you
• It won't ensure that every spin is uniques
• It won't give you any suggestions on words to use for substitutions.
• It doesn't come with an installation program.

So, like I said at the top of the page, there isn't a price for this.  It's FREE!  So, you're probably wondering why.

Well, for one thing, it isn't quite "done."  It does everything I've said it will and it doesn't have any known bugs.  But, it could use a bit of polishing up yet.

I also don't want to HAVE to help you get it working.  If it works for you, fine.  If it doesn't, let me know so I can fix whatever bugs you find.

Here is the link to the Super Simple Content Spinner zip file.  It has the EXE and a test file in it.

You may need the .NET 2.0 runtime to run the exe.  You can get that here.