PLR Membership sites

The term 'PLR articles' covers a very wide spectrum. At one end you have people selling packs of thousands of articles for a few dollars and at the other you can pay several dollars for one article.

It tends to boil down to three factors:

* The quality of the writing
* The age of the articles
* The number of people those articles will be sold to

In terms of quality, many PLR articles membership sites over the years have outsourced the writing to writers who have less than perfect English skills. This has usually been done out of cost considerations to maximize the sites' profits. Unfortunately the result has tended to be low quality articles that are poorly researched and which stand out as PLR to anyone who sees them.

While it can be argued that any content is good content, in my opinion it is much harder to create a profitable site when your content base is very low quality. It isn't so much that the articles use poor language skills, but more that they display poor writing skills - they are usually one-dimensional, badly researched, content-light and lacking in the richness of language (often referred to as LSI) that the search engines like and that real readers appreciate.

As someone who has bought, used and profited from a LOT of PLR material over the years, I came to realize that although the supply of PLR articles is expanding at a huge rate, the availability of really good well written and researched ones is limited to only a few suppliers.

That's why my wife and I entered the market a couple of months ago, using my Internet marketing and research skills coupled with her writing ability - as an ex English teacher. (For more info see my sig.) The result has been extremely well received by our members, several of whom have written to tell us that they have already made profits from using our articles.

In terms of what 'private label rights' actually means, there is no official definition that every vendor has to adhere to, so it is important to check the terms and conditions of each person or site that you buy from. In our case, we impose only two restrictions: members cannot post our articles to article directories without making substantial changes to them, and members may not resell our articles with private label rights. Other than those (we think) sensible points, members can do pretty much anything with the articles that their business or imaginations demand.

In fact, we provide a list of 18 ways to profit from PLR articles in our members training area.

Building websites, blogs and an income with private label articles is like cooking: the better the ingredients, the better the end results. Would you rather have a sausage made from cheap filler or one made from top quality meat?

Martin