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Content spinning is one of those spammy practices that has given us the web we have now. So many sites with different themes and pretty much the same junk content, all surrounded by ads and privacy invading scripts.

It may not be your direct intent for that to happen, but it will absolutely happen.

At least your Privacy Policy appears decent.

I get what you mean, but I believe content spinning itself is not the culprit. The real issue lies in business models that encourage the mass publishing of low-quality content on websites reliant on affiliation or ads.

Google typically filters out these types of websites (in theory at least), and with AI search, hopefully they will get irrelevant.

Ah, so the other boys started it.

Hey HN,

I'm a small web agency owner, and my day to day is doing SEO for local businesses.

To rank on many cities, I was duplicating services pages and replacing some part of the text.

Some say Google penalises this, but I've never seen any negative effects.

Anyways, I was doing all that manually and it was taking way too much time.

So, I created SpinPress because I wanted to save time (and also duplicating stuff manually is really boring), but then I realised it could also help me rank for all the long-tail keywords that big agencies don’t even bother trying.

I made this for SEO, but I believe it can be useful in other ways.

Would love some feedback on this

thanks, Manu

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