Rewrite Content Before or After Publishing?

I haven't used much PLR so take this with a grain of salt.

I'd rewrite the articles but there's no reason to wait until each article is finished to put up on the site. To get started, rewrite 5 articles and post them. As you finish each additional article post it.

problem solved (hopefully)

Kevin

I agree with Kevin - rewrite a couple, get the site live and rewrite the rest of them a couple at a time.

Either way, I would always try to rewrite them to put your own stamp on them and make them unique. Don't turn it into an excuse not to get the site live, though.

Steve.

Jay,

Duplicate content refers to having the same content on your own site more than once. There's no penalty with having the same content on your site that other sites have. I have sites with PLR articles on them and they all got indexed by Google just fine.

However, if you do rewrite them first, I would do some keyword research first and find the closest keyword to the topic of each article. Then do the rewrite with that topic as the primary phrase you focus on. Then you'll have not only a unique piece of content, but one that is built around a keyword that actually can bring you some good traffic.

Then it's just a matter of getting backlinks. Be sure to use the keyword of that article as the backlink anchor text and you''ll be golden. You might want to figure out which of your new PLR sites is the one with the best keywords (low competition, high search volumes) and start there. The success you see from that one will inspire you to keep on truckin'.

Good luck!
John

Do your keyword research first and if you're going to depend on Google for a major portion of your traffic, make sure you can rank for your keyword. Rewrite your articles before you publish them to assure your content is unique.

Here's how I would do it. Say you have 20 PLR articles on ten different niches.

1 - Find your affiliate products (or whatever) for all ten niches.
2 - Do your keyword research on all ten.
(You need your products and keywords before you can re-write or get domains.)
3 - Get all ten domains.
4 - Rewrite the article for your best keyword on domain 1 and post it.
5 - Follow this with one article on the other 9 domaines.
6 - Do the same with articel two for each domain.
7 - Repeat until complete.

This way your domains are all growing slowly.

Obviously you will need to do marketing for these also, but this is how I would do the re-writing and site building.

Good luck!

Thanks for the tips guys.

What I didn't make clear is that what I was talking about is a 90% ready PLR webSITE with 20 pre-written articles. So way too much of the whole site would be identical to many other such sites.

I do rewrite with specific keywords in mind. I'm almost anal about it at this point. Budget is tight right now or I'd use a few of the very good rewritting services right here on the WF like the one by Hemux, and humanrewritter.com

As for growing the domain slowly, I saw a video by Google stating than unless it's 1000s of pages at once it doesn't matter. Think about it: why would they want to penalize a site that starts big in content? Most websites done for insurance agents, doctors, dentists, etc, come right off the box filled with lots of content.

It's different for building backlinks but when it comes to posting content on your own site, you can go big at once from the get go.

"rewrite them before the bot sees them. They might not be back for a long time if they see just another duplicate site."

I think you're right!

While duplicate content isn't a penalty, it can leave
your site forgotten in what many call the "supplemental
index hell".

So, I will go with rewriting the articles. But you don't
have to rewrite them all. Like many have advised here,
first start with keyword research. Find other related
keywords that don't have too many competing sites
but have good search counts, then use these keywords
for the articles. Then rewrite the first paragraph of
each article, the middle paragraph and/or the
concluding paragraph - just to ensure you get at
least 30% uniqueness. Afterward, get lots of good
backlinks to the articles using the keywords in the
anchor texts.

Do the above and you are sure of getting the best
from those PLRs.

I agree on rewriting them before the bots sees them.

Yah ! it's always better to rewrite content before or after publishing it. I like your idea.