Spinning Articles

[megler]

I've read through Commando and Tomtom's thread about how tomtom spins his articles.  I notice that tomtom uses CS1 for this.  Is it possible to use this method using CS2?  If so, how?

I can see how to set the article up, but then how do you tell CS2 to rotate between sentences if you have say 9 different sentences you want to use for one selection?  I've watched the videos a few times, but never saw a way to do this with CS2.

Marceia

[Omar]

I am not sure i understand how you want to rotate sentences. I think Tom was speaking about how to rotate sentences in the resulted articles, like you make a 100 sentences article, but in te output you only use 10, randomly rotated each time. You can do that in CS2.

When you finished the project and select some export mode, say RSS, at some point you have some options on next screen:

Additional features

 Shuffle sentences in the output
Output only  sentences from resulted text (0 for unlimited)
Export  versions of each selected article

[megler]

Omar,

I just re-read Tom's original post and under step 2 he says the following:

STEP 2

Now you need to write some alternative sentences for each "nummber".. this means the following:
101 =
Keyword rand is someting I am really keen on.

Or

I have a long experiance of using keyword in our day to day life.

OR

Not long ago I got my self a keyword. It is not always things are what you think they will be, and here is some more info on my keyword experiance.

I interpret this to mean that for this article, he wants 3 sentences to rotate through this specific section.  To be more specific, this is going to show up in a specific place in the article, not just anywhere the system wants to put it.

Using his example, section 101 would be the first paragraph and this would be the first sentence of the first paragraph.  He wants 1 of these 3 sentences to show up as the first sentence each time the article is spun.

I never used CS1, but can that be done in CS2?  I know another product that can do this, but I hate switching back and forth between two systems (CS2 has a better thesaurus and other options) if I don't have to.

Thanks much!

[Omar]

Well, that can be done in cs2 too. You can have some variable like [100], [sentence1], [sentence2] or anythig like that and have values for them anything from a few words to a full sentence. Values does not need to be synonims only, can be anthing, just make sure they are separated by hard linebreak (Enter).

However, each such a variable will only take one value at a time. So each variable will be replaced with one sentence. If you want a full rotating paragraph just put together few such variables, each with more possible sentences, and CS will rotate through sentences. Also, the sentences used in variables will not be able to have rotating synonims too. They will be fixed. Neither CS1 or CS2 support nested variables.

[megler]

I follow what you're saying, but I'm having trouble visualizing how it should look.  Especially for say a 2+ paragraph article where the sentences are rotating in each paragraph.  How does CS2 know that "these" sentences are for paragraph 1 and "those" sentences are for paragraph 2?  Is there a way to define the variables?

The way I picture what you're saying is something like:

paragraph 1:
[I like keyword]

[I think keyword is groovy]

[Using keyword has made my life perfect]


paragraph 2:
[Continued use of keyword will make you rich]

[Studies show that keyword will improve your relationships]

[Keyword made me a ton of money]

so by having each sentence in [] - and a hard line break at the end, I am telling CS2 to rotate through these selections.  What I'm not sure about is how to set it up so that CS2 now knows I am on a new paragraph and to treat it accordingly.  HTML?

[Omar]

No. Your text should look like this

paragraph 1:
[sentence11]. [sentence21]

paragraph 2:
[sentence21]. [sentence22].

Then on the middle column you will have those 4 variables listed and a box for each of them where you can put the possible sentences.

for example, for [sentence1] you can have
I like cars
I think cars is groovy
Using cars has made my life perfect

As i told you, those senteces will be fixed, you can not have other variables inside them.

The visual delimitation of paragraphs can be made by html tags.

[megler]

makes total sense.  thanks, Omar.