the best spinner guide

TheBestSpinner Guide

1 Quick Start Guide

1.1 Download the application 4

1.2 Run TheBestSpinner 11

1.3 Copying a spun article to another application 21

1.4 Working with the synonym drop-down window 25

2 Working with the spinner

2.1 Adding an article 28

2.2 Changing synonyms 37

2.3 Checking your spin 45

2.4 Using the spun articles 51

2.5 Running your article through Copyscape 64

3 Settings and Options

3.1 Settings and Options 67

4 Quick Answers To Frequent Questions

4.1 How do I use Auto-Select Synonyms? 80

4.2 How can I add a link in my article? 85

4.3 I want to spin my links and anchor text. 89

5 Data merge

5.1 What is it for? 94

Quick Start Guide

TheBestSpinner Guide - 3

Download the application

First thing to do is to download and install the application.

Download the latest version of TheBestSpinner

In your welcome email you are given a download link. If you've already downloaded from that link youcan skip the next step.

At any time in the future, you can download an updated version of the spinner fromhttp://thebestspinner.com/?action=getlatestversion and then click on the links that says Click This Link

Please note that downloading a copy of the application is not the same as installing it. You have todownload it first, to your own computer, and then you get to install it, as shown in the next few steps.


You'll be asked whether to save, or run the file. I usually save it in case I need it later.

Click on Save


The standard Windows file save dialog box should open and you can choose where to save the file.Most people save to their desktop.

Whatever you do, remember where you save it!


After downloading, navigate to the folder where you saved the setup file. You may have to open yourWindows file manager explorer if you didn't save the file on your desktop.

Then, right-click on the setup filename and a menu will appear (see the following steps, if you're usingVista or Windows 7)

From the menu, click on Open .


In some cases, such as for Vista and Windows 7, you may need to click on Run as administrator toinstall the application.


The dialog box that appears next normally requires no changes, but if you prefer not to have a shortcuton the Start Menu you can uncheck the option.

Click on Next when you're ready to continue.

The destination folder can be left as it is, or you can change it, if you prefer, to a folder of your ownchoice. For most people just accepting the default setting will be best.


If you don't know why you'd want to do change the folder, just leave it as it is and the application willwork fine. Click on Install to continue.

After literally a couple of seconds, the application is installed and this is what you'll see.

This bit confuses a lot of people because it happens so fast you think nothing has happened - The BestSpinner installs in literally seconds.

When you see this, there's nothing left to do. Just click on Close.


Run TheBestSpinner

Where and how to start TheBestSpinner

How to launch the application

On your Start Menu, click on All Programs


You'll see a list of programs and folders (usually). Find the folder called TheBestSpinner and click on it.

If you have a lot of entries in your Start Menu you may have to do some scrolling around to find thefolder.

Click on the pencil icon entry to start The Best Spinner application.


Logging in

This is the login screen that appears after you've launched The Best Spinner.

You have to login every time you use The Best Spinner, so that the application can get the latestthesaurus data.

Your login details are normally your primary Paypal email address and the password we sent you inyour welcome email. If you can't remember your password, or the welcome email got trapped by yourspam filters, you can click on the Forgot Your Password link and the password will be emailed to you- make sure you set up your email to accept email from thebestspinner.com, or it might go into yourspam filter.

Check the Save My login information if you want the system to remember your details for you. Click onLogin when you've entered your login details.


This shows the application immediately after it's opened.

The big empty window in the middle is the article window, where you will put your original article andthen put it into 'spin format'.

The quickest way to get going is to open an existing plain text article.

Click on the open folder icon on the far left of the toolbar, to load your article from a file on your disk.


IMPORTANT: You can't open Word documents. The Best Spinner is designed to work on plain textfiles - Word documents are not plain text files.

Choose a file

Choose the plain text file you want to work on, click on it and then click on Open.


When the article is loaded, the text will appear in the Article tab window.

A superfast way to spin your article is to click on the 9th icon from the left - Replace everyone'sfavorites. This is where the power of The Best Spinner starts to really shine through.


Ultra fast quick start

You'll have chance to customize the way the application spins your article, before The Best Spinnerdoes its magic.

Quick tip: make sure you have the correct language selected in the Language bar, at the bottom of theapplication window!


The quality level drop-down offers a number of levels with best giving you the best 'quality' spin, butfewer variations, and good being the lowest 'quality' spin, but many more variations. For your firstrun-through I recommend choosing Best.

For now ignore the Advanced Settings.

Click on Replace. The application will then analyze your text and will add multiple spin variations foryou, based on the user contributed thesaurus. It may take a minute or two, depending on the length ofyour article and the speed of your internet connection. On a fast machine with a good connection it'svery quick.


This is what your article looks like after the application has put it into 'spin format' for you. The blue textinside the {} brackets is 'spin text' and The Best Spinner will make unique variations of the text for youin the Spun Article tab.


Click on the Spun Tab to see spun variations of the original article. From this tab you can post to yourblog, create a new spun version, or copy to clipboard so you can take the article into Word, Notepad,Open Office, or wherever you want to use it.

Every time you click on the New Spin button The Best Spinner will work through the spin options in youroriginal article (remember all that blue text I showed you earlier?) and create a new version for you.You can do that as many times as you want.


Copying a spun article to another application

What's the clipboard and how do I copy an article?

Copying a spun article to another application

When you're ready to transfer a spun version of your article, click on the Copy To Clipboard button.


The Best Spinner confirms that the spun article has been copied. The clipboard is not something youcan see, or directly access, so don't panic! I'll show you how to use it in the next few steps.

I'm using Notepad2, but you can use Notepad, Word or whatever you like, including online submissionsforms like at EzineArticles.

If you right click where you want the text to appear, you'll see a menu appear with a Paste option. Clickon Paste. If you prefer to use the menu options of the text editor, or word processor you're using, thenext step shows you how.


Click on the Edit menu (there's usually an Edit menu in every text editor or word processor) and adrop-down menu should appear. Click on Paste.

Your spun text will appear and you can then go on to do whatever you need to do, such as saving,printing and so on.

That's the quickest way to get a fully spun article, but if you want to tweak the spinning, take a look at


the next couple of steps. If you're interested in saving different versions of your article, you can see howto do that by clicking here.


Working with the synonym drop-down window

Learn about the synonym window; the most important window in the application

Working with the synonym drop-down window

After you've done the initial Replace everyone's favorites, you may want to go through the text and tidyit up a little. If there are phrases, or words that do not quite make sense for your article, you may wantto take them out or replace them.

When you select already spun format text, a drop down synonym box appears, as shown above. Byclicking on the various synonyms offered, you can build up your spin format text easily.

If you click on an existing spin word (shown with blue highlighting), that deselects the word from yourarticle. That's very useful for automatically replaced words that don't quite make sense.


It works on individual words, as well as entire sentences or phrases. The more of your article that youspin, the better, in most cases, so a few minutes spent working on your article will pay dividends laterwhen you publish your content.


Working with the spinner


Adding an article

Working on articles you already have.

Opening an existing article

To open an existing article into TheBestSpinner, click on the first icon on the toolbar.

Remember that you can only work with plain text files, so don't try to open a Word document or it willcrash TheBestSpinner.

The problem with Word files is that they usually contain extended characters - most particularly 'smartquotes'. These characters can cause TheBestSpinner to crash.

Make sure you use only plain text files. Surprisingly, copying your work from Word into Notepad is notalways enough to get rid of all the extended characters.

You should also steer clear of bullet points and other text decoration elements. If possible, it's easierand safer to originate your articles directly in Notepad, or other similar text editor, in the first place.


The file manager opens and you can select the text file you want to work on.

You'll probably have to navigate in the normal way to the directory where you store your articles. Youcan double click on the article name to load it.

Or you can click on it once and then perform the next step. If you have trouble double-clicking at theright speed (a lot of people do), this is an easy way to achieve the same thing.


Click on the OPEN button to load the article.

When the article has loaded it will look like this. Notice that it appears in the Article tab.

You can also load an article into TheBestSpinner by copying and pasting, say from an open Notepadfile, as shown in the next step.


Copy pasting an article

Here, I've opened an article in Notepad2. As you can see I've selected the text and I've right-clicked themouse to produce a drop-down menu.

Click on COPY to copy the article.


Switch back to TheBestSpinner and on the Article tab right-click to show the drop-down menu.

Click on PASTE.


The article will appear in exactly the same as if you'd opened an article file.

Q. Why would I want to copy paste an article into TheBestSpinner instead of opening it?

A. There may be times when you don't have the material in a text file and you can only copy paste it.With TheBestSpinner you can get your articles into the application whether you have a text file


available or not.

Identify synonyms

At the bottom of the TheBestSpinner application window is a button to Identify Synonyms. You mustalways use this before you start working on the article.

Note that if you use the Replace Favorites option (discussed later), you don't need to use IdentifySynonyms first.

You can also choose which synonyms are identified. The button on the left, All Synonyms, has a rangeof options if you click on it.

The options give you the following:

All Synonyms: Every possible synonym is recognized, which leads to more variety, but it can also leadto more work editing and cleaning up the article.


Good Synonyms: This gives you fewer synonyms, but they're more likely to be acceptable, so you'llsave editing time. You won't get quite as much uniqueness though.

Best Synonyms: This does what you'd expect. It gives you the best quality of word replacement sothere's much less editing to do, but it doesn't give you as many replacements as All Synonyms, forexample.

Q. How do I choose which one to use?

A. You'll need to experiment to see what suits your way of working, but generally you should start withGood or Best, until you're used to TheBestSpinner.

After Identifying Synonyms the article will look something like this.


Phrases that have been recognized are underlined. If a word is in italics, like this, that means there wasno synonym found in our database. As you can see in this sample article there are only a few words initalics - that means that the database recognized nearly all the words in the article.


Changing synonyms

As you work on the article you can spin by choosing from all the synonyms which have been identifiedfor the words and phrases in your article.

The buttons labeled 1 allow you to step forward or backward through the article, automatically pickingup identified synonyms and giving you a window to choose them from.

For people who prefer the keyboard you can use Tab to move forward through your article instead ofusing the button.

Please note that TheBestSpinner is not really designed for you to do the spinning manually in the articlewindow. You'll get the most efficient use of TheBestSpinner by using the Tab key, or the arrow keysshown at label 1 in the picture


Missing synonyms

A common support question is what to do if your synonyms disappear, as shown in this image.

The synonym window is in fact just a normal window. That means it can be resized using your mouse,so if you ever get this problem just select the edge of the synonym window and drag it out to the sizeyou want.


When you're dragging the window to size it, you'll see your mouse cursor change to the double-headedarrow crosshair, as marked on this image.

Hold down your mouse button until you get the size you want and then let go.


As you work through the article you can add extra spin text to a word or phrase just by clicking onsuitable words in the synonym window.

When you've selected a word it will turn blue and be added into your article.

You see here that we currently have only the word Raw in the title. Let's add some other words.


I've added several words just by clicking on them in the synonym window. Notice that they turned blueand that the word Raw has now been spin formatted with all the word options I chose.

The whole essence of spinning is to go through all the words and phrases in your article and, generallyspeaking, add as many spin variations as you can think of. The spin text has to make sense in thecontext of the overall sentence, so you need to check as you go. The more you can add spin variationto your article (as long as it makes sense), the better.


You can manually spin your article some more even if you used the quick-start method mentionedelsewhere.

The options at the bottom of the synonym window are explored later.

Settings and Options

There are a number of options on this page.

Here, I've enabled Sentence Selection Mode by checking the check box. As it says, it will no longerwork word-by-word. Instead, it will select entire sentences so you can create alternatives. Whether youshould use sentence selection mode depends on how you like to work. You can also work in sentenceselection mode first and then uncheck that option so you're working in word/phrase mode - taking twopasses at it like that can give you very well-spun text quite easily.


Here's a sentence which I chose by hitting the Tab key.

For sentences the synonym window appears a little different than before, but it works the same way.

Probably in most cases there won't be any synonyms for sentences, but you could, for example, set uppersonal favorites for medical disclaimer sentences.


I've added an alternative sentence in this example. When you click on ADD your article will look a littlelike the next image.

The alternative sentence just added has now been spin formatted in the article. You can repeat theprocess as many times as you like to add several alternatives to your original sentence. Remember thatthe more you spin, the better, generally.


Checking your spin

Checking what you've done is important.

Checking your spin

If you click on the Spun Article tab you'll see a single version of your article, after TheBestSpinner hasspun it.

The version you see is just a single version - TheBestSpinner can produce lots of different versions foryou after a it's spun your article.


Check your spin

To generate a new spun version, just click on New Spin. Within a few seconds (depending on the sizeof your article), TheBestSpinner spins a new version for you.

Every time you do that, you'll get a randomly spun, new version.

There's a little trick for checking your spin format. If you click on New Spin a few times you can usuallyimmediately see whether your spin format text is working well.

If you find that parts of the article don't make sense, or don't read well, it's almost always because ofspin text that needs a little attention. By looking through a few different spun versions you can get anoverall feel for how well you've spun your article.

Example: Too and as well are synonyms, but you can't always use as well instead of too.John came too. John came as well.They both make sense.


It was too expensive. It was as well expensive.No, that doesn't make sense in that context.

If you find things like that on the Spun Article tab you should go back to the Article tab and do a littlemore editing of the spin format article.

Flat spin

A flat spin is also a 1 level spin. It's the most basic form of spin.

If you're working with other systems, websites or applications that accept spin format text, you can usethe output from TheBestSpinner. But if those systems can only work with a flat spin (1 level spin) youhave to either:

1) Make sure you only create flat spins on your articlesor

2) Convert your multi-level spin into a flat spin using this tab.


What does a flat spin mean? Well, it means that no nested brackets are used. Nested brackets can getcomplicated very fast. TheBestSpinner works with them just fine, but many other systems find it hard tocope with them. So we offer you the ability to take something like this:

{There is an|An} {{easy|undemanding} example|indication}

and output something like this:

{There is an|An} {easy example|indication}

For most people there will be no need to use flat spin, since you'll be working with the output text filesthat you get from TheBestSpinner. But if you need a simple spin format for other systems, you can getit using this tab.


Example fully spun article

Here's what an article looks like after you've finished adding synonyms. You'll see it's color coded toshow you the different levels of spinning. Everyone has different needs so there is no way to give aformula for how much spinning is needed, but if in doubt, do some more spinning! You can definitelyhave too little spinning, but it's hard to have too much.

Q. What are different 'levels'?

A. You can nest your spins to make an article that is more unique by spinning words within somethingthat is already spun. So for example:

1 level of spinning: {This is a simple sentence|This is not complex}TheBestSpinner Guide - 49

2 levels of spinning: {This is a {simple|pretty easy} sentence|This is not complex}

3 levels of spinning: {This is a {simple|pretty {easy|obvious}} sentence|This is not complex}

You can go as many levels as you need. The more levels the more likely you'll be able to produce tonsof pretty unique articles. However, you can produce good articles even with just basic 1 level spinning.

If you're new to spinning, just stick with 1 level stuff to begin with until you get used to it.


Using the spun articles

What can you do with the articles you create using TheBestSpinner?

It's important to understand that TheBestSpinner helps you to produce variations of the article you startwith.

It does not force you into using them a particular way and it is entirely up to you how you use them. Formost people, the obvious choice will be to add them to article directories.

You can output a single spun version of your article, or you can output hundreds of different versionsfor use in lots of directories.

The following steps show you how to save your original article and how to output your spun articles.

Generate spun articles

After you've finished spinning your article (choosing synonyms), you can output up to 250 differentversions of the original article.

How different each version will be depends on how much spinning you've done. The more spinningyou've done the more each article will differ from the others.


To output multiple versions of the article, click on the X near the top right of the application toolbar, asshown in this image.

You'll see a dialog box with a number of settings.

The first setting is how many versions of the article you want to generate. You can choose up to 250,but in this example you can see that I've chosen 35.

The article filename prefix is used so you can keep track of all your different articles. When you get tothe point that you have thousands of spun articles you'll be glad you can add a prefix, so that you canhave articles named like this:

weightloss1.txt


weightloss2.txt.....

.....

stopsmoking1.txtstopsmoking2.txt....

and so on. The articles will be saved into a directory of your choosing, using the filename prefix youspecify, so be sure to make it a clear prefix that tells you what the article is about.

In some cases you may want all the articles to be saved to a single, large text file. Some bloggingsystems, or other software, may need the articles all in one file. If that's the case, check the box toGenerate A Single Text File.

The article separator text is used so that your software knows where one article ends and the nextbegins. If you don't use that kind of software, don't worry about this option. If you do use it then youshould know what separator text is required.

The final option tries to give you the most unique versions possible of the article.

Select N-th synonym, if checked, works its way through your articles taking the first synonym from eachspin block for your first article, then taking the second synonym from each spin block for your secondarticle and so on.

If you have a spin block with fewer synonyms than the number of files you're generating, the N-thsynonym option has to revert to random selection. In other words, if you have no more than 3 spinoptions in any of the spin blocks, don't try to generate 200 articles using the N-th synonym option!

The N-th synonym option is really more for serious power spinners who create substantial spin blocks.

When you've made your setttings choices, hit Generate Articles


Choose the folder you wish to save your articles in.

Choose a filename - it needs to make sense to you, but TheBestSpinner doesn't really care what youcall it.

For weight loss articles it would make sense to have something like weightlosseasytips.zip orsomething like that, but if you want to call it file_136-wlet.zip you can (but you'll have to rememberwhat it means!)

Click on save and TheBestSpinner will generate the articles files, zip them into a zip file for you and


then save them into the directory you chose.

Here's an example of a file I saved and named demo35articles.zip


You should not that the articles are all in a zip file. In most cases you will need to unzip them beforeusing them on the web, on your blogs, or wherever.


When I check inside the demo zip file I made for this manual, I see that there are 35 files, exactly as Irequested in the Generate Articles setting dialor. The filename prefix is test, again exactly as I specified.

When I check inside the files I can see how much difference there is between each article and theothers.

I'm using a special file manage utility here, but you can check the articles in Notepad quite easily.They're just normal text files, so they open up in the usual way.

Using an article

How you use an individual article depends on the website, system or application that you're adding it to.

For most people, most of the time, you'll probably need to copy and paste the article text into some kindof online form, as shown over the next few steps.

If you are using a system that requires some other way of inputting the article you'll need to check thehelp files that come with that system. In most cases it's likely that you'll just select one of the text filesand the system/application will do the rest for you.


I've opened one of the articles in Notepad.


I'm using the edit menu to SELECT ALL the text of the article. You can also use the key combinationCTRL+A


The text normally highlights blue when you've selected it.


If you RIGHT CLICK anywhere in the text area you'll get a menu with COPY on it. Click on COPY andthe article will be copied to the clipboard. In most applications you can also choose COPY from theEDIT MENU, or you can use the key combination CTRL+C

You can't see the clipboard - it's a part of the computer memory, but it will save your article there readyfor pasting somewhere else.


Here, I'm pasting the article (which is still on my clipboard), into a new post in a WordPress blog.

There are several ways to paste in your article and you should choose the one that's most convenientfor you. I list the different ways below.

Click anywhere in the post body area and RIGHT CLICK. You'll get a menu with an option to PASTE.Click on PASTE and your text will appear.

Or you can click directly into the post body area and just use the key combination CTRL+V, which alsoPASTES the article in for you.

This is what it looks like after the article has been posted in.


If you want to submit an article to Ezinearticles, or any other directory, you use exactly the sametechnique. The steps are as follows:

1) Open the article you want to use, in Notepad or another text editor

2) Select the entire article. You can use the context menu by clicking your right mouse button, or theSelect All option on the EDIT MENU. You can also use the key combination CTRL+A

3) Copy the article to the clipboard. Use CTRL+C, or use the Copy option on the EDIT MENU. Or youcan right click and select COPY from the context menu.

4) Go to where you want to submit the article and open up their submission form. Paste in the articleusing the right mouse context men, Edit Menu or key combination CTRL+V, as shown in the previoussteps.

Whether you're posting to your blog or an article directory, the steps for copying and pasting the articleare the same each time.

Q. How do I open up a submission form?

A. You need to do whatever you would normally do when submitting articles. You need to know how todo that whether you're writing your articles by hand, or using TheBestSpinner and it's not something wecan help you with.

Q. If I'm not sure how to submit an article to a site can I open a support ticket with you and ask you?

A. If you're not sure how to submit your articles to a directory or article distribution service you shouldask their help/support desk, not us. They will be best qualified to tell you how to use their service.


Running your article through Copyscape

If you have a Copyscape account and you've added your login credentials to TheBestSpinner (see Settings and Options), you can easily check how unique your spun article is from withinTheBestSpinner.

Switch to the Spun Article tab and then click on the Copyscape Check button.


If your article passes the Copyscape check you'll see this dialog box.



There are multiple settings and options in TheBestSpinner. This section explains what they are andhow to use them.

Most of the settings can be left alone for most users. We'll cover the most important ones and showyou how they work.


When you spin an article, you can choose whether to work with individual words, or to work on wholesentences at a time. Which you do depends on the kind of spinning you want to do, but if you'rewanting a fairly quick way to work in big chunks, Sentence Selection mode is a good way to do it.

You check the checkbox and TheBestSpinner will select entire sentences for you to provide synonymsfor. Technically, they're not synonyms, they're alternative sentences, but we'll stick with the synonymterminology for these instructions.


Using the marked arrow keys on the application, or the Tab key on your keyboard, you can work yourway through the various sentences in your article.

As you can see from this example, when a sentence is selected it highlights and splits the applicationwork area into two, so you can add your synonym sentences, as shown in the next section.


As you can see, I've added a synonym sentence into the text edit area. When I click on Add it will be"spun" into the original sentence. I can add as many sentences as I like to this original one, by enteringthe text and pressing Add each time.

Here, you can see the original sentence has been spun with the new sentence. I've blurred the other


text to focus attention on the spun sentence we're looking at.

Using either of the arrow keys highlighted here, or the Tab key on the keyboard, we can move fromeach sentence to the next.

We can then add synonym sentences if we wish, then move on to the next sentence and so on. As youcan see in this example, we've moved on to the next sentence in this article.


Replace Favorites inside spin-formatted text

If your article is already in spin format - you might have bought it that way, or created a spin articleearlier that you want to do some more work on, you can check the Replace Favorites insidespin-formatted text checkbox.

If you check this box, you can work on words which are already within some kind of spin. That allowsyou to add even more spin to your article.

If you uncheck the box, your already spin format parts of your article are "protected" from further spinformatting. You might want to do that if you've already spin formatted the article the way you like andare just making some small changes to it.

This checkbox only affects the operation of the Replace Everyone's Favorites and Replace MyFavorites. You can always manually add a synonym to a word, phrase or sentence, even withinalready spin format text.


If you check the Keep synonyms list on the bottom of the window, the synonym choice list looks like this:

They synonym choice list appears beneath your article, instead of as a drop-down box.


This is largely a matter of personal taste. One way isn't better than the other and it may depend on thesize of your monitor as to which you prefer.

Enable visual brace matching

This is very useful. When you have a lot of spinning going on, it can be hard to keep track of whichspin bracket matches which. Using this option, TheBestSpinner will highlight the matching bracket (orbrace) for you.


When you highlight one of the brackets, as here, the matching bracket is highlighted automatically foryou. This can help you find any mismatched brackets, which can be very hard to find if you're doing itby eye alone.


Spin level colors

1) TheBestSpinner allows you to "nest" your spinning, or spin to multiple levels. To make it easier tokeep track of the levels you have, you can use the color-coding to make each level of spin stand outfrom the others.

It's personal taste as to which colors you use, but for most of us there's no need ever to mess with thispart. Unless you have a particular preference for certain colors, the default color scheme should makethe levels stand out just fine.

2) You can also, optionally, color words which are not in the thesaurus. Such words show up in italicsanyway, so you may not need to bother with color, but if you want an extra visual aid to locate them youcan use this setting. Words without synonyms won't get changed when you spin, so some users like totake a little time to find alternative words for them, to increase the overall level of spin.

3) Within a spin, you can make the first term stand out, if you wish. Again, most people won't use this,


but if you want to keep an easy eye on the first term in every spin block you can do so from here.

Copyscape credentials

If you have a Copyscape account and some credit, you can use TheBestSpinner to check your spunarticles against the Copyscape database, to see whether your article will be classed as unique.


You'll have to sign up with Copyscape first, but you can do that by clicking on the link underneath theusername and API key boxes.

If you're using Windows Vista or Windows 7, you normally have to run TheBestSpinner in admin modeso that you can store your Copyscape details for next time. There's no save button - just enter yourdetails and when you've closed TheBestSpinner, the very next time you use it, those details should beremembered for you.


Quick Answers To FrequentQuestions


How do I use Auto-Select Synonyms?

Here's the basic article before I've copied into TheBestSpinner. You can see that no synonyms havebeen identified, or underlined, at this point.


Click the lightbulb icon to perform an Auto-Select Synonyms.


A dialog box opens, where you can choose the options you want to use.

You can choose Phrases only, or Words and Phrases. For maximum spin variation you'll probably mostoften use Words and Phrases.

The Max Synonyms settings just says how many synonyms you want to add to your words andphrases. If you choose a high number, remember that some phrases and some words may not havethat many synonyms in the thesaurus. A good starting point is 3, the default value, but you canexperiment with this number to see what kinds of result you get back for a particular article. IfTheBestSpinner finds 3 synonyms for a word, or phrase, it will add them into the spin format for you, as


you'll see next.

The Frequency setting is an advanced setting and is covered separately later.

After a few moments your article should look something like this.

As you can see, up to 3 synonyms have been added into the spin format for all words and phrasesrecognized by the thesaurus, for example:

{of|associated with|regarding|involving}

That has the original word - of - and 3 synonyms

Auto-Select Synonyms also creates nested spinning, where possible, which is why the text appears inblue and green.


You can continue to add spinning manually, if you wish, or use the article immediately. We recommendthat you spend a few minutes checking through the article and cleaning up any synonyms that don't fitwhat you're trying to achieve with the article. A little effort at this stage always pays dividends.

How is this different from Replace Everyone's Favorites?

Replace Everyone's Favorites does pretty much the same thing, but it takes the synonyms from theuser contributed favorites - it does not take the synonyms from the raw database of the thesaurus.

In some cases Replace Everyone's Favorites might give you a better result, but you'd have to try it bothways to see which result you prefer.

How do I use the spun article?

Spun articles created by using the Auto-Select Synonyms function can be used in the same way as anyother articles you create using TheBestSpinner. You can use them as blog content, submit them toarticle directories, use them in the creation of reports, make web pages from them - whatever youwould normally do with articles that you had written entirely by hand.


How can I add a link in my article?

Adding a simple link (hyperlink) in your article

Let's say we want the words real estate investor to link to a website we have about real estate.

Articles in TheBestSpinner are just plain text. All you have to do is add the HTML code you would useon a web page for the link you want. Lets' say in this example we want to link to our website at:

www.mygreatrealestatesite.com

You can see the HTML code in the next section.


I've put the HTML code for the link on a line of its own, only so you can see it clearly. You don't needto put it on a separate line when you're creating the links.

All links are going to follow that same basic pattern. Here are a few more examples:

real estate investments

make money with real estate investments

When you use the article in a blog, or webpage, or submit it to an article directory, the link should turninto a clickable link to the site you specify. You can preview the link within TheBestSpinner, as shownin the next section.


When you switch to the Spun Article tab, you can use the HTML Preview pane to see what your linksand other HTML code looks like.

As you can see at 2), there is a clickable link. If you click on that link you'll be taken to the web pageyou specified.

I want several links. Is that possible?

You can add as many links to your articles as you like, but remember that when you're submitting themthere may be restrictions on how many links are allowed. For example, some article directories may notallow any links within the body of your article, while others will allow up to 3.

If you're using the final articles on your owns sites and blogs, you can put as many links as you wish,but it may not always be a good idea to put too many. That could make an article look very spammy. If


your article is about the top 50 fishing sites then it might be logical to have 50 links in it. For generaluse, however, it might be wise to keep it to 3 links or fewer.


I want to spin my links and anchor text.

Can I spin links in my articles?

Yes, you can spin links in your aticles.

Next question.

Ok, just kidding! Of course we'll show you how to do it.

There are 2 parts to a link. There is the link itself - the website or web page you want the reader to goto when they click on the link - and the anchor text. The anchor text is sometimes called the keywords.

Here's an example:

visit MSN.com today

The text in green is the actual link. That's where your readers will go when they click on the link. In thiscase it would take them to the home page of MSN.com

The red text is the anchor text, or the keywords. That's the words that will be underlined and clickableon the web page.

You can spin the link itself, or the anchor text, or even both if you want to.


Spinning the hyperlink

If you look closely at that link, you'll see that the website part is spun with 2 different websites. You canactually put as many websites in the spin as you like, but I've only used 2 for this example because it'seasier for you to see it.

The bit that actually spins the website (or the destination URL), is this:

{http://www.mygreatrealestatesite.com|http://www.realestateinvestments.com}


Spinning anchor text

If you want to spin the anchor text, you do something similar.

This is the bit that spins the anchor text:

{investing in real estate|make profit with real estate|real estate investor}

That example has 3 spin options, but you can add as many as you like.

So if you want lots of different keywords, or anchor text, to point to your site, that's how you can do it.

Of course, if you want to, you can spin the website part and the anchor text part at the same time. Ifyou spin enough articles out of your seed article, you end up with each website getting a link for each ofthe keywords you specify.


Spinning multiple sites and anchor texts

Here's an example of multiple websites being spun with multiple keywords:

{investing in realestate|make profit with real estate|real estate investor}

Remember you can put as many websites and as many keywords or anchor texts as you like. I've onlyused a few to make the example easier to follow.


Data merge


What is it for?

Please note: it's outside the scope of the help we can offer to teach you about the concept of datamerge. We can only show you how to perform it using TheBestSpinner. For everything else you'll needto do your own learning.

It's also fair to say that data merge is probably not for beginners.

Put it this way: if you don't know why you might want to use data merge, there's a very good chanceyou don't need to use it, at least not right now.

Data merge is just a way of creating a batch of articles that have certain pieces of text, or information,taken from a file - the datafile. If you only ever needed to change a couple of things you might be betterdoing a search and replace, but if you're writing general articles for hundreds of different towns, forexample, it might well be worth getting used to the data merge facilities.

Here's an example. Let's say you're promoting a learning initiative that has new drop-in learning centersfor adults in 121 cities. The basic article you'd write is going to be the same for each center. Butspecifics, such as city name and center address would all vary. That's where you could save a ton oftime using the data merge.


Suppose that for each center we have the following information:

city namecenter addresscenter phone numbercenter manager detailscenter opening hours

Now you could create 121 spun articles and then go through each one, adding in the details for eachcity one by one. Or you could create a file that looks like the example in the image. It's a plain text fileand I've called it sampledata.csv

A real data merge file might have hundreds of entries, but the 2 we have will serve as an example.

This is a very short example article. You'll see the highlighted data merge 'placeholders', marked in red.

When this article is data merged with the file I created earlier, it will produce an article for each line inmy data file. I only have 2 records in my example file, but the process is the same even if you havehundreds.

Notice the format for the placeholders. The merge data field name is enclosed in brackets, like this: [cname]TheBestSpinner Guide - 95

Click on LOAD DATA FROM FILE and you'll then be able to navigate to where you stored your datafile. Remember the data file name has to end in .csv


I've located my sample file and all I need to do is click on it and then click on OPEN.


After the data has been loaded you'll be able to see if it's coming out right on this screen.

Here you can see that the data is going into the correct fields. That's important because you can usethe fields in any order in your article. As long as your data is showing up correctly on this screen, itshould end up in your article correctly as well.

Click on Merge Data With Article.


This is the generate spun articles dialog that we've seen before. This time, you can't choose thenumber of articles. That's determined by how many lots of details you have in your data merge file.

You can still choose the filename prefix, whether to put all the articles into 1 text file and whether to usethe N-th synonym from each spin block.


Enter a filename (preferably one you'll remember!) and click on Save

As you can see from the filename, this is the first merged file and it shows the New York center details.


This is the second merged file and it shows the details for Bakersfield. This is only a very simpleexample.

You can have a list of hundreds of different merge records and you can have as many merge fields asyou wish. A merge field is a piece of information that gets replaced, such as the center name, or thecenter manager name in the example merge I've shown here.

This is limited only by your own imagination. You can use it to write hundreds of articles customized tolocal cities, or states, to promote dental offices, car dealerships, coffee shops, ski centers, musicvenues.. the list goes on.

This was just a simple example. In reality you would probably also spin the rest of the article, so thatyou get unique articles that are also customized with the merge information.

Want another idea for using data merge? How about producing a whole series of articles that eachpromote only 1 URL, but with different anchor text (keywords)?

If you have a number of pages on several websites that all could target certain keywords you can datamerge the keywords and pages into a series of articles. Publish those to the directories and you start toget multiple keyword links to multiple web pages. Here's an example of how the data file might look:

myurl,myanchorhttp://msn.com,green widgetshttp://msn.com,blue widgetshttp://yahoo.com,green widgetshttp://yahoo.com,blue widgets


This is a very simple example of how to put in URLs and anchor text.

I've loaded my data file and you can see I have 2 different sites with 2 different anchor texts (keywords)for each one.


I'll get a total of 4 articles from this example merge. If you wanted more keywords, you'd simply addthem into the file.

There's almost no end to what you can do with this and it really is limited by your own imagination.


TheBestSpinner GuideTable of Contents1 Quick Start Guide1.1 Download the applicationDownload the latest version of TheBestSpinner

1.2 Run TheBestSpinnerHow to launch the applicationLogging inChoose a fileUltra fast quick start

1.3 Copying a spun article to another applicationCopying a spun article to another application

1.4 Working with the synonym drop-down windowWorking with the synonym drop-down window

2 Working with the spinner2.1 Adding an articleOpening an existing articleCopy pasting an articleIdentify synonyms

2.2 Changing synonymsMissing synonymsSettings and Options

2.3 Checking your spinChecking your spinCheck your spinFlat spinExample fully spun article

2.4 Using the spun articlesGenerate spun articlesUsing an article

2.5 Running your article through Copyscape

3 Settings and Options3.1 Settings and OptionsReplace Favorites inside spin-formatted textEnable visual brace matchingSpin level colorsCopyscape credentials

4 Quick Answers To Frequent Questions4.1 How do I use Auto-Select Synonyms?How is this different from Replace Everyone's Favorites?How do I use the spun article?

4.2 How can I add a link in my article?Adding a simple link (hyperlink) in your articleI want several links. Is that possible?

4.3 I want to spin my links and anchor text.Can I spin links in my articles?Spinning the hyperlinkSpinning anchor textSpinning multiple sites and anchor texts

5 Data merge5.1 What is it for?

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