Maneesh Sethi – 4HWW Success as a Digital Nomad

Spinning is the practice of taking an article and replacing some of the words with synonyms, or substituting phases with equivalents, to avoid duplicate content restrictions from article directories (Google won’t index multiple pages of with same article). Most directories allow one backlink in your bio and another in your article body, but others allow for 1 or 2 more backlinks. I just Google for topic-specific directories, which can be tedious, but I don’t have any better ideas.

He posts his articles on HubPages, which features an AdSense rev share program (40% goes to HP, 60% goes to the author). He has his virtual staff submit spun versions of the articles to a bunch of article directories, and those articles contain backlinks to the hub for the original version.

The advantage of using HubPages, despite the 40% cut taken out, is that he can create a new hub for any keyword article; so he’s not locked into building an authority site in a single niche.