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What do you think of PLR articles?

by seekyt
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Do any of you use PLR articles for your blogs or website content? I know that you have to add to them, change them, practically re-write them, etc., but it still beats having to do research (sorta).

Have any of you been successful with altered PLR content on your websites? I just received 90,000 PLR articles.... I figure I could start rewriting and posting 20 a day as articles on my own website, and maybe over a period of time it would help get traffic from the search engines (as long as I make them unique, keyword rich, study keywords, link to it on other sites, etc.). I have enough articles to mix and match a bunch into one to create one REALLY unique article that is very keyword dense, long, and extensive... but maybe I'm going about it the wrong way.

Any ideas?
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  • Profile picture of the author schabotte
    Do you think the time investment in sorting through all of them to find a few that you like enough to rewrite is less than the time investment to research and write your own 100% original articles totally in your own voice/personality?
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    • Profile picture of the author David Jackson
      Originally Posted by schabotte View Post

      Do you think the time investment in sorting through all of them to find a few that you like enough to rewrite is less than the time investment to research and write your own 100% original articles totally in your own voice/personality?
      schabotte beat me to the punch, but those are my sentiments exactly!

      David Jackson
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Morgan
    Originally Posted by seekyt View Post

    Do any of you use PLR articles for your blogs or website content? I know that you have to add to them, change them, practically re-write them, etc., but it still beats having to do research (sorta).

    Have any of you been successful with altered PLR content on your websites? I just received 90,000 PLR articles.... I figure I could start rewriting and posting 20 a day as articles on my own website, and maybe over a period of time it would help get traffic from the search engines (as long as I make them unique, keyword rich, study keywords, link to it on other sites, etc.). I have enough articles to mix and match a bunch into one to create one REALLY unique article that is very keyword dense, long, and extensive... but maybe I'm going about it the wrong way.

    Any ideas?
    I think it more about what you do with the PLR articles, how you use them, compared to what do you think of PLR articles.

    They can be spinned and submitted to article directories, or spinned and made into blog posts.

    You could compile alot of similar ones into some ebooks which you can submit to ebook directories, putting a link in the ebook to your sales page or landing page.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
      If it is decent quality PLR, there is no limit to what you can do with it. You can mix and match to come up with a unique article, like you mentioned. You can combine several articles to come up with a report you can use to build a list. You can use parts of those articles in your autoresponder series. There are many things you can do if you just get a little creative.

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  • Profile picture of the author seekyt
    Great advice so far!

    As for having to sort through them, they arrived in appropriately titled folders, separated by categories and sub categories, and then alphabetized inside of the folders, so I can already see some topics which have several similar articles written on the subject.

    I was thinking of spinning them and using them for blog-style content. If I can publish around 1,000 or so original articles in just two months, I believe I will see at least a decent gain in search engine traffic to my site.

    I'm glad no one has said (yet) that PLR articles are useless, since that is the consensus of some other groups I have been asking these same questions to.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Worner
    Personally, I would prefer to hire a talented ghost writer to create a piece of content I can use for myself, then once done with that content, license it out as PLR to other people and make recoup my costs(essentially making it free content, then lather rinse and repeat)

    I hear Tina aka TMG Enterprises is a very talented writer.

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    • Profile picture of the author seekyt
      Hmm interesting ideas everyone. I really appreciate the feedback so far. I am still new to the warrior forums, so I didn't know about the "blogs" feature until a few minutes ago. I found a blog detailing a plan of action for using PLR articles, so I at least know how to use these things now.

      180 MB of .txt files is kinda overwhelming, but they seem pretty high quality so far. I'm going to go through them and start creating new and interesting content for my site.

      Thanks everybody!
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    • Profile picture of the author Dean Shainin
      I have over 100,000 PLR articles and from my point of view it's like sitting on a gold mine. Why? Because I get so many niche ideas, it saves loads of time researching and I know I can do just about anything with them. For example I can set up a 14 day auto-responder series within minutes instead of dozens of hours.

      Think 'out of the box' and you'll make money with your 90,000 PLR articles...

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  • Profile picture of the author dave147
    PLR articles are great, you can have your own totally unique article written in about 10 minutes using a PLR, rather than wasting hours on research. Use them as a quick-start guide to your own articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris Worner
      Originally Posted by dave147 View Post

      PLR articles are great, you can have your own totally unique article written in about 10 minutes using a PLR, rather than wasting hours on research.
      The trick is finding the good stuff, and where to source it from. You can create auto-responder series with them and license it out for profit.

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  • Profile picture of the author VHQ
    If you can write that many per day, it may be an idea to split up the work. For example, try posting 10 on your own site, seeing how that works, and selling 10 in 'packs' on forums like this one and digitalpoint.

    This really depends on your goal though. Are you doing this for a specific niche or are the articles tailored to a wider market?
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  • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
    I agree with Tina. When it comes to quality PLR, the sky is the limit.

    The best feature of good PLR is the research. Sure, you will have to rewrite it a bit if you're going to publish it anywhere, but if there's good solid research, you're saving yourself alot of time. The issue arises when you don't buy quality PLR. There's alot of junk out there that is fluffy, that doesn't contain solid information. That makes it very tough to write - without doing additional time-consuming research.

    If you're going to publish PLR online, think of the original article as a rough draft of a term paper. Back when you were in school, how much time could you have saved if someone went to the library for you, did comprehensive research, then wrote a rough draft of your term paper for you?
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  • Profile picture of the author MichaelAppleton
    I only ever use PLR if rewriting the articles.

    If you are using PLR articles straight out of the box and publishing them to your blog chances are google will sandbox you for duplicate content.

    If you are looking to rewrite the articles then by using good quality PLR articles you will be looking at halving the time spent writing your articles.
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