A question about PLR article packs

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Hi there all,

I was curious as to how much to charge per article when setting up
a PLR article pack to sell. It seems to me that if a person wrote a 400 word
article and you had 5 articles in a pack, most people are selling them for
$1 per article. Is this the average rate out there?

Thanks so much in advance.
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  • $1 is pretty common, but some go for much less. You can get more than $1 per article if you heavily limit the number of packs you sell.
  • I'd suggest 500 words per article, rather than 400. This seems much more common, plus it's more in line with the length ezinearticles is looking for (after the PLR is heavily rewritten of course).
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    • 400+ words is fine. EZA will not put your articles on the most viewed or most published list if they are less than 400 words but the longer you make your articles the further down the reader has to scroll before they see your resource box.

      My best click through rates were always with shorter articles but with recent changes at EZA, any articles I had that were less than 400 words disappeared from their most viewed and most published lists. I still try to keep them between 400 and 450 so that I have a shot at getting on those lists but also maintain a good CTR.
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  • Thanks for the suggestion about the 500 words being more attractive.
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    • I have MANY articles at Goarticles that are less than 500 words. There are a lot of directories that want 500+ but Goarticles isn't one of them.

      This was copied from the goarticles "author guidlines"

      "Submissions that are less than 200 words will be removed from the GoArticles database. Longer articles may also be removed if they contain no useful content or are submitted for the sole purpose of obtaining backlinks or promoting a product or service."

      Looks like 200 words is the minimum at Goarticles.
  • About $1 per article is average if you limit the distribution - usually they go for less if the distribution is unlimited.

    It is isnare that requires 500 words or more!

    Lee
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  • Krysti,

    I agree with the 400 to 500 word content.

    Here on the WF many folks are looking for the cheapest price they can get for PLR and there is nothing wrong with that. However, outside the forum other folks will pay a higher price and these prices range from $5.00 up to $100s of dollars Per Original Article. In turn these same people will pay more for PLR articles, especially if they are high in quality and will draw the traffic they are looking for.

    Whatever price you settle on build your reputation on furnishing high quality articles. Find your own unique selling point and tell your potential customers how it will benefit them.

    Ken Leatherman

    The Old Geezer
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    • This is true, unique one-of-a-kind articles can cost $100 or so each. Once you find clients who like your work and trust you, you can get more money for PLR as well.

      I've seen people selling PLR with a limit of 500 buyers, but when you sell that many, the limit seems pointless in a way. If I were buying that package, I'd want to pay closer to .25 or .50 per article.

      The $1 or even $2 per article is a good price when you limit it to 250 or fewer buyers.

      In terms of duplicate content that someone mentioned, the wise always rework the PLR so that it is unique. Unless you want to use it in an auto responder or something.

      Now, I do different packages (web site, graphics, ebook, raw files) and limit the distribution to 50, which enables me to charge more. It's like getting a book written for you, but at a massive discount. I do see others selling similar packages for much less ($10 or so), but they either don't limit distribution or it's very high, like 500-1000.

      Sylvia


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  • I usually go with around 450 words for PLR packs - a nice compromise between 400 and 500 words. You can start with $1 per article, but selling limited quantities will allow you to raise the price per article accordingly.
  • I sell packs of 5 or 10 articles on a given niche for $1 an article. I only need 20 takers for a niche and I'll write the articles quickly and easily. If there are 20 takers out there who want 5 original PLR articles for $5 from a native English speaking writer then let me know!
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    • Hey All,

      Gosh..thanks so much for all your helpful tips here. I like
      the idea of 450 word articles and 5 per pack. I really appreciate
      all your help. Great thread!
  • Pricing is only one factor when looking to sell PLR packs.

    One important factor has to be the rights you give your packs.

    Often you see PLR which says, "Only 50 copies of these will ever be sold." Sounds good, but then you look at the rights and find they come with unrestricted rights. They can be added to membership sites, sold as PLR and normally they are bought by PLR wholesalers, and then available to hundreds even thousands of people who are members to these sites.

    If you really want to limit the number of copies you don't want to have unrestricted rights.

    Bev
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    • Ooo...that's a good point, I never thought of that. I'll have to make sure to change that on my next PLR release.

      Matt

    • That's really one of the things that's stopped me from selling PLR packs. I'd want it to be republication rights - period. You can republish these articles, but you can't sell or otherwise distribute them for OTHER people to publish except through submission to article directories.

      I've been concerned that this would reduce interest.
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    • What rights do you most look for? Which are the ones you are most likely to turn your nose at?

      It seems that there is a fine line between which restrictions are beneficial. You want to give they buyer as much freedom as possible but when you do that, you lessen the value of the articles.

      Is there some standard that people use? I've looked around and even in here there are a ton of different rights given.
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  • I think that as far as rights go, there are two different types of markets.

    One consists of the folks who want content for their niche ... period. They could care less about master resale rights, they are buying the stuff to fill up their blogs, make reports and email to their list. They really only want personal rights and they want the distribution to be limited so not everyone else is handing out the same stuff.


    Then, I think there is another market that wants master resale and full PLR rights so they can give their customers resale rights, put it in packets, give it away, publish it on the kindle make it into websites and flip it or whatever.

    The way I see it, with the first market, you can charge more but you need to limit the sales so eventually you will have to take the product off the market.

    With the second market there is no reason to limit the distribution so you have a product you can sell forever.

    I'm not sure which is better or more profitable?

    Lee
  • This PLR business sounds fascinating. I've been in the article writing game for a while now, but have never considered putting together an article pack and selling it to multiple people.

    What time of article topics tend to sell well at the momen in a PLR context?
  • Try to have a limit when you offer a PLR article packs.
    Use the $1 per article if the niche is good or else
    you could not get many sales unless you established
    yourself already. Less than $1 mostly win in packaging
    PLR articles. Try to observe the WSO section.
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