what

I came across this question asked by one of my friend and got interested to write about it thinking maybe there are also some people who might be interested to know what exactly is an article spinner or content spinner.

There might be some confusion or maybe just different definition by different people between Spinner, Unspinner and ReWriter. I shall not say what I'm saying is the correct or standard definition but this is what I thought it should be or more likely to be.

First the most obvious one, ReWriter. ReWriter simply means a tool that helps you write or rewrite articles. It assist you while you are still manually writing each and every word yourself but probably with some synonyms help and curly brackets help. Meaning to say with easy clicks and manipulations, you can write or rewrite articles into a spun format article easily. A spun format article is articles that have lots of {|||} in it, these brackets are used to contain different synonyms of the same meaning to make the article has many different variation of words used.

A Spinner. Spinner is often meant several ways. Some people take spinner as a tool like rewriter, some people take spinner as a tool that you put a spun format article in and will generate or spin different versions of articles for you. The word is used correctly in whichever way you want but I thought it's more likely to be a tool that automatically creates spun format articles for you with a database of synonyms. My Vexez Content Spinner does that and I have my own database of synonyms to maintain. Similarly, if you've heard of "The Best Spinner", it does the same.

Unspinner, a term lesser used or seen around because people always talk about spin and spinner. I thought Unspinner would be a better term for a tool that allows you to throw in your spun formatted article and it will generate a number of different versions of ready made articles for you according to the synonyms in the spun format.

I hope this gives a general idea of spinners online and what are the terms often used. Although spinners or spun articles are not very liked by Google or other search engine due to duplicate content across the internet, it can be useful in some ways or another.

Facebook WordPress

Wow I was finding how to allow visitors that are visiting my sites to actually login to facebook to kind of link the account. Something like login to my wordpress blog with their facebook account linked. So I went around searching and came across this wordpress plugin, WPBOOK. So I tried.

This plugin is easy to find and it's a free opensource project by John Eckman. Very simple thing to follow and I thought I should share this if you happen to need something like this on your self hosted wordpress blog. Basically it's setting up a facebook application and allow people in facebook to reach your site's content with an application that you could invite. More social interactions to expose your site. Quite fun!

Simply go to your plugins directory in your wordpress dashboard, add new and search for WPBOOK. Once you installed and activated WPBOOK, it has some simple instructions to follow. If you haven't got a facebook developer account, you need one because it's dealing with facebook apps. Simply register one, it's free anyway, and "Set up new application". Fill in information you know, those URL simply put your wordpress blog's. For some of the URL, it will require a slash at the end like this - http://www.vexez.com/ instead of just http://www.vexez.com. It's weird but it worked that way if you happen to get validation fail.

You do not need to fill in all URL in the settings, just get some important ones done and try to save. When you save they will try to validate, fix those validation failed errors and you should be good to go. Get the Application Keys, API Keys and Canvas Page URL to put in the wordpress plugin settings. Read through the instruction and you will be required to allow some extended permission grant from facebook. Just click that link in the settings and grant it.

Okay by now your Facebook Application should be done and showing your blog's content. You need some users before you could submit to facebook apps directory, so hang on and start inviting friends manually!

Support my app too - http://apps.facebook.com/vexezweb/

spinner

Just thought that I should make a post regarding my own content spinner. I will not share HOW I make it working but well, yeah, it's working. And I believe it's spinning great. I currently have near 1000 words spinnable in my database and the spinner itself could spin you an article within seconds.

It's producing great readable results and I'm currently providing this web tool free. Also I would like to get more people to use and test my tool to see how could I improve it further.

It's kinda fun and satisfying to create such a demanding tool for internet marketers and it's actually working decently and fast. I would really like to get more people to test it out, please share with your friends who are interested in such tools and get more people to help test it out. I want to hear suggestions and feedbacks on how to improve. Please help me out to improve this tool for everyone else who are also using it.

http://www.vexez.com/vexez-content-spinner/

If you like my stuffs around on my sites, please follow me on my facebook fan page. Would appreciate your support. Thanks.

facebook

Just thought that I shall create a post on the updates I made on this website itself. Several things done and had fun playing around with wordpress, facebook and PHP codings. Good thing I'm one who likes programming pretty much and PHP is really fun and powerful. Also those tools I've created, but not completed, earlier are all based on PHP.

Firstly, I made some appearance changes on the site itself with some feedbacks I got from Digital Point forums. I made the header area smaller again, I suppose now it does not irritate people anymore. Did resizing for CSS styles and those related images. Edited the background, the one you see now with slight orange slanted stripes. A suggestion by one of the DP members, to make it related to the header theme but very slight yellowish. Hope it looks nicer now. And added those boxes for all my sidebar items, previously my adsense sponsored links and share buttons are all dangling around over at the sidebar, now they are all in boxes. Would really like to hear more suggestions and feedbacks for improvements, shoot some comments here :)

Next, I shall talk about some stuffs related to wordpress and PHP. As we all know that wordpress is a PHP based blogging platform, it's really nice to play around with the editor within the dashboard with some PHP codes. I also enabled PHP on my wordpress posts with a wordpress plugin called Exec-PHP. There are a few plugins that does the same but this one seems to be working well for me, which is how I made those tools on my pages to work. Only thing that doesn't go really well is the wordpress "wautop" and "wtexturize" filters. Due to PHP codings on posts and page, those auto beautifying stuffs has to be disabled to avoid errors. So I've got to add <p></p> myself on all the posts now.

Lastly, an interesting thing I've added on the sidebar you can see now is the facebook fan box. I created a fan page on facebook for this website to update things going on here for people to follow on a fan page. Quite easy to make one and it looks good to have some stuffs like that on the sidebar. Simply go to any facebook fan page, if you're logged in to facebook, look at the bottom left of the fan page. You should see a create page button. Try one and put it on your website, it's nice to have. I'll try to explore more into the facebook fan page thingy, the FBML thing for application seems kinda fun. Will explore it some day when I'm free and the interest arouse.

Okay that's all for this post. Follow and support me on my facebook fan page. Throw some suggestions, feedbacks and discussions around and I'll try to response your request. Have fun!

I've added a few new tools on Vexez.com:

1. Vexez Content Spinner
2. Vexez Content Unspinner
3. Vexez Google SEO Analysis
4. Vexez Keyword Density Calculator

It's new and requires more improvements, feel free to use it and give your suggestions and comments on the tool's comment area. Will try to improve it if request is nice.

It's Free to use, let me know your thoughts on how to improve it. Stay tune!