Wednesday, May 18, 2011

How to Use Jetspinner to Save Time

Article marketing is employed to build backlinks to your target sites. You generate an article, set all sorts backlinks in it, and post it on a blog or at an ezine.

To be effectual you create one article, and then spin it to develop several distinct articles for employment at a range of sites.

The article content should always be totally unique or Google may ignore the links. There are many different classes of programs employed to re-spin articles. I've been utilizing Jetspinner.

Utilizing Jetspinner is really simple. The whole program is dependent on code using curly brackets and the the vertical bar.

You find the word or phrase you want to replace and place a the opening curly bracket in front of it to indicate that the spinner has to perform, you place a the vertical bar after the word or phrase, then you stick in the alternate you want to utilize, and close the code snippet with the the closing curly bracket. When you re-spin the article the program will choose one of the alternate choices between the curly brackets, which you've divided by the the vertical bar. You can position in as many alternate words or phrases as you like, as long as you split each one with a the vertical bar.

Once you code the article Jetspinner will re-spin it, give you one randomly spun article, and let you to download a zip file of 50, 100, or any other number of randomly spun articles. It is a fantastic time saver, and it's totally free.

The 1st thing that you must do is come up with the article. I commonly start off right in Jetspinner, although I also create stuff in other text programs, including emails or notepad programs on my iPhone. This allows me to build articles and blog posts anywhere.

Once the article is preparedit is time to code it. Many times it's worthwhile placing the article away for a while in order to clear your head. This allows you to discover errors and confused writing easily. Whether you do this or not the next step is the coding.

If it's a short article I just start picking words or phrases and inserting the first curly bracket and the vertical bar. Jetspinner features an Ajax thesaurus feature that suggests alternate words and phrases as soon as you enter the the vertical bar after the first curly bracket and the word you want options for. It can be a bit tricky, so take notewhen you decide on the options and be sure that that they are going in where you want them.

It's critical for you to save the spin code on a regular basis. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, since you're working on a web page a stray finger can take you off the page and cause you to lose work. Second, re-spinning frequently will tell you when you've made a coding mistake. The coding error will stop the spinning, so if you have a 500 word article coded for re-spinning, bu t the spun article is only 35 words long you'll know that you've made a code error. You'll also recognize that the error is around the 35 word point. Once you've spun the article once it's saved, and you can just click the edit button to go back to editing your article.

You can use Jetspinner coding in the title, which is a graaeat timesaver, especially when you're outsourcing the work to a non-native-English speaker. In fact, plenty of these tricks are useful for outsourcing, if, for example, you create the original article but outsource the re-spinning to a VA overseas.

You have got to be vigilant about capitalization. Native English speakers recognize that we don't capitalize words or phrases unless they are the start of a sentence or the name of something that is supposed to be capitalized. Usually, if the word you're replacing isn't capitalized, don't capitalize the replacement. Jetspinner's thesaurus will typically give you both choices, so exercise care to either pick the right one, or fix the alternate in the spin coded article. If you don't you'll get mistakes in your randomly spun articles which results in more editing work for you, and that means more wasted time.

There are a couple kinds of words and phrases that are easy targets for re-spinning. The First variety are words with lots of close synonyms. An example is the word "start". Jetspinner provides at least 16 alternatives (begin, commence, start off, start out, get started, launch, initiate, beginning, establish, get going, set up, kick off, make, get started with, begin the process of and get started on). If you identify target words like this, especially ones that duplicate, you can save lots of time.

The second sort of word (or phrase) is one specific to your topic. If you're writing about airplanes then "airplane", "flying" or "airport" are likely going to crop up throughout the piece. The fact they repeat make them targets. Select your alternates once, and very carefully. If you're writing about mortgages you can expect the word "lender" to repeat. Some of the possibilities are loan provider, loan company, financial institution, bank, lending agency, loaner, mortgage lender, financier, loan service, broker, financial institution and finance company. Not all of them are acceptable. Many of the short comings won't stand out to a non-native English speaker. You can choose the alternates once, and let your VA apply your choice.

When you've picked out alternates for recurring words or phrases a easy time saver is to utilise cutting and pasting with the recurring words and phrases. You have the choice of doing actual cutting and pasting in Jetspinner, or, you can open a text editor like Notepad and utilise the "find and replace" tool.

Open Jetspinner in one window, and open Notepad in a second. Copy and paste the whole piece into Notepad. Return to Jetspinner and pick the word or phrase you want to spin. Get your alternates from the thesaurus. Highlight the alternates, including all the code, and copy them. Switch to Notepad and select "Edit" and then "Replace". In the "Find what" box insert the target word or phrase and in the "Replace with" box, pop in the code. Return to Jetspinner and repeat the process.

Many different times you must make sure that your cut and pastes are workable - you often have to change them to plural (for example, if you replace "lenders" with the alternates to "lender" you'll want to pluralize the alternates).

Imagine what you've achieved: If you have a particular word or phrase with 13 available alternatives occurring 10 times throughout the article you have definitely amplified the distinct quality of the article based on transforming one word or phrase. By the time you transform all the trouble free target words and phrases and the target words that are subject specific to your article you'll have accomplished a lot with nothing more than keystrokes.

There is another trick for switching phrases. You can merely add an adjective, like "good", "great" or "real" in front of a noun. "Another trick" converts to "Another great trick", or "Another good trick".

There are other techniques, but they are not as trouble free. Once you've picked the low hanging fruit, so to speak, you can go over the article and determine if there are words and phrases that you want to completely switch around, shorten or lengthen or delete entirely. This requires a range of thought, and a good grasp of English, writing and style. Non-native English speakers may have a challenge with it. My virtual assistant will often accept words from the thesaurus that aren't applicable in a certain situation, which is not a surprise. When you start switching whole phrases it's not fair to expect him to be able to do it.



Here's an example:

"Begin by writing down your main ideas" can become "In my opinion it's really important to start by jotting down your main ideas on a scrap piece of paper before you even start to compose your article". You can do that in Jetspinner by setting the the opening curly bracket in front of "Begin", the the vertical bar after "ideas" and before "In my opinion", and then a the closing curly bracket after "article".

You can also put code inside of code. "Begin by writing down your main ideas/In my opinion it's really important to start by jotting down your main ideas on a scrap piece of paper before you even start to come up with your article" can turn into "(Begin/Start/Start off by) by (writing down/jotting down/setting out) your (main/most important/key) (ideas/points/concepts)/(In my opinion/I think/In my experience/Experience tells me) it's (really important/important/best/critical/smart) to (start/begin/start off/start out) by jotting down your main ideas on a scrap piece of paper before you even start to
generate your article" (where the regular brackets signify the curly brackets and the "/" represents the the vertical bar)

Try these basic techniques with Jetspinner and find if it delivers the results easily for you. They get the job done for me!

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