Anyone have an idea of what percentage uniqueness you need to get spun articles accepted by directories such as Ezinearticles?
It's less than that. I've had articles as low as 41% uniqueness get accepted. I've never attempted anything less than that though so i'm not real sure what the requirement is.
So mine are around 60-65%, I probably should be good then according to your replies, thanks for your help.
I never go under 60%, sometimes up to 80%. Coulsd work udner this, but you risk wasting some time and editing more than once.
At 75% you might as well just have it be unique content. If I do any spinning, I will put the unique article on ezine, them spin to other sites.
I have had problems with my articles not being unique enough. Ezine just won't publish it. But if it is really similar to an article that is already on the Internet, they will suspend your account; and you have to give a good reason for them to reinstate your account. It has happened to me a few times, but I got back on fairly easily. The only drawback was my account was down for a few days and it took that much longer to get all my other articles approved.
Also another tip is make sure you can find article spinners that allow you to make words or sentences optional. I've heard that even if they are spun like 50%, and they are near the same amount of words, that could be bad. So be careful fo that.
The more the percentage is the better but there's no threshold. SEnuke recommends 30-35%+ and I guess you can start from that upto 75+. Any attempt perhaps over 75% would result in a considerable amount of time, if the spuns generated are just a few.
Everyone is only talking about percentage and uniqueness. Nobody bothers to state that the article should make sense and be understood by the readers. Else, it is just search engine fodder. In case it is the latter, then you better optimize the keywords properly... just sprinkling a percentage of keywords throughout the text and once in the title is not enough... else the search engines will shun you. If both humans and search engines understand your article, it's awesome... if none of them can decipher it... R.I.P. P.S.: E&OE