Wordspinner - Free Word Spinner Plugin for Wordpress

August 15, 2008

I got a couple of emails about my last article about the free spinner code, and have made a rather spiffy plugin for WordPress that will do the same thing on any posts or pages on the site.

You can grab it here: WordSpinner Plugin for Wordpress 2.6.0 (and up)

There is an example of what WordSpinner does in this page. Hit refresh on your browser and see if you can tell!

See the included readme file for changelog and useage (it’s easy as pie).

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Free php spinner!

July 31, 2008

A while ago a friend of mine, an SEO guy, told me about the concept of ’spinning’ content. Basically the idea is to get many articles out of one article, by adding replacement words or phrases to the one article you write. Then, every time you refresh the page, the same - but different - article is displayed. It’s mostly a way to confuse search engines into thinking you have more content than you do, but sometimes it’s useful; E.g. if you have a summary of an article which is ripped straight from the main article, you might get a duplicate content penalty from Google every time it looks at your site.

It’s always struck me as odd than nobody seems to have written anything (freely available anyway. $97? Bugger that!) for such a simple task, so I thought what the heck, I’ve got an hour or two, why don’t I write it myself? So I did, and here it is; (more…)

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Hits vs Visits, or “How to ask for website stats without sounding old”

July 15, 2008

“How many hits do we get?”

This question is almost as prevalent as the “How do I make a site” thing, but it’s a lot more dated. If uttered by a marketer, it instantly shows their age as nobody actually asks about ‘hits’ anymore if they know what they’re talking about.

I’ll break down the terms first so you know what I’m talking about, if you don’t already. (more…)

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