Rewriting articles is like sticking to a diet. Lots of people talk about it but many don't do it. But unlike sticking to a diet, you will be spinning your wheels rewriting crap. Think about it like this. What article directory will allow you to submit virtually the same article? I'm sure you read about the crackdown at Ezine because they are filling the SE results with pure crap. And that's what your articles will be. If the goal is links, go for it, but just a few short years ago the articles that were "unique" are too similar by todays standards. I think you will be treading water if you try to just retype the same article over and over, unless the article actually brings something new to the table. BUT don't listen to people (me ha!) that say it doesn't work. I'm sure there are people tricking the SE's with tons of spammy crap that is written by software, but the gravy train doesn't last forever. Think in terms of sustainability. Write one great article and syndicate it throughout the internet. Between scraper sites, other bloggers, etc, your article will get great ROI. Did Michael Jackson have to die 17 different times to get huge publicity? No, he just needed one good death. Ok, that's a morbid example but you get the idea. If you churn out crap you will have no real followers, and if you think those clicks are going to convert from an article directory, 99 times out of 100 they seem to fail. Put it on your own blog (a reason to uphold quality content otherwise who will come back for seconds?, and stick to social bookmarking.) Then again someone is probably getting rich with automated spinning articles laughing his / her ass off. I tip my hat off to this person. If you are writing articles that suck you need to launder them through an article directory to siphon their SE respect to boost your article. If you write an article such as Blue Frogs that Mate in The Summer chances are you will rank for that phrase, as well as other phrases or different syntax of that sentence such as Summer frogs that mate, etc. Rewriting allows you to add a new title such as: Summer Blues Frogs that Mate in the Summer Now you will rank for that phrase (most likely). The onus is ultimately on the article directory to maintain its integrity, and the SE's relationship to the content site. Until then, people can churn out rehashed articles to trick the SE's. To credit the SE's, your articles will lose their value as their algorithm gets better (in the past few years I have noticed significant improvements to filtering out similar articles). Conclusion: Rehased articles may trick the SE's (for now), but you can not put this crap on your own site, because...it just sucks. So you have to USE and ABUSE article directories. If you write one quality article, put it on your own blog, and syndicate it through bookmarking, other article directories (you don't have to rewrite the article if you think its valuable enough to be listed throughout the web), social networks, etc, the ROI will be greatly enhanced. You get to get quality SE traffic and your conversion rate will go up since they don't have to dodge a barrage of adsense on Ezines, and magically click on your puny sig link, then convert once on your site. Looks like the article directory is a middle man that can get cut out, or utilized by people that don't own websites and live off affiliates. If you don't think your article on your PR 0 site will rank for the article title and you need Ezine articles (part of the perpetual myth), submit it to all of the bookmarking sites, tweet it, post it on fb, myspace, and see if it doesn't rank. Years down the road you'll have a "real" readership, while the untrustworthy article directories turn into the squidoo bubble bust of vintage landing page MFA articles, and all of those rewritten articles should have been written about defication, because that's what you'll want to do on them. If I rewrite this post enough I probably could rank for Double Edged Sword Articles! Unique Article submitted to multiple article directories / social bookmarking > rehashed trash articles submitted to multiple directories Does anyone really sit down and rewrite what they just wrote manually..and if so do you get any results...and would they be greater than just writing a NEW article?
i stopped rewrtting articles i submit one to all the directories. in the end syndicate website takes your articles so you get the same results if you spin it or not.
Re-writing articles is completely useless. It only creates some very short living traffic. But it will drive away readers faster than you think. If you write worthless crap, you will lay the foundation in a wrong way.