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Can You Do This For A WSO?

by Sheryl Polomka
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I may be wrong here but I was under the impression that a WSO had to be your own work, original and not just work that you have bought and then resell it.

So, can you buy a heap of PLR from different sources, then shove them all together in one big PLR bundle and sell it as a WSO?

I would have thought not being that all the content that you are selling is PLR bought from elsewhere and not your own original work. Or does it become ok because you have packaged it together and that now makes it 'original'?

Just putting the question out there as I just came across one such WSO of 8,000 PLR articles which have been purchased from various sources and put together for one WSO. I didn't think this was right, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Any thoughts??
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  • Profile picture of the author mattlaclear
    Nope...anything you sell as a wso needs to be 100% your own. So that rules out plr collections.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sheryl Polomka
    Yep - That's what I thought. Then this is the sort of WSO that needs to be canned and leave room for the good one's that are sticking by the rules!
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    • Profile picture of the author GameVoid
      Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka View Post

      Yep - That's what I thought. Then this is the sort of WSO that needs to be canned and leave room for the good one's that are sticking by the rules!
      lol I think you and I were looking at the same WSO that appeared today

      That guy is either breaking the WSO rules or has hand written a few thousand articles (not to say that he hasn't but it seems unlikely).
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  • Profile picture of the author mattlaclear
    I knew the answer to that question because I asked it myself to the help desk several months ago. Was itching to put together an wso at the time.
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  • Profile picture of the author mattlaclear
    Hey...he might be a very avid writer willing to sell his life's work for dirt cheap. You never know!
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    • Profile picture of the author GameVoid
      Originally Posted by mattlaclear View Post

      Hey...he might be a very avid writer willing to sell his life's work for dirt cheap. You never know!
      He admitted to buying them from other sources.

      The Rules:

      1. All WSO's Must Be Something You Created. A Product Of Your Own. (A package of ebooks someone threw together is not considered a product and will be deleted) This is completely self explanatory and not up for debate. If you yourself did not create the product do not post it here.
      Should someone report it?
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  • Profile picture of the author Sheryl Polomka
    I bought and put together this PLR mega pack from various resources.
    Yeah he did admit in one of the replies that he purchased the articles from different sources. Although he says he bought them from various resources, doesn't actually say he bought them as PLR. 8,000 articles though I can't imagine he'd outsource writing of 8,000 individual articles.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ken Strong
      When it says it has to be your own product, that doesn't mean you can't outsource any or all of the work -- it just means the product can't be a pre-existing one that you bought resell rights to or something.

      You could do a PLR WSO if the material originated with you. And that doesn't mean you have to personally write it -- you can hire outside writers to do it for you.

      And I don't think there'd be any problem if you wanted to include some bundled PLR from other sources if it was a "bonus," but your main WSO product would still have to be yours.
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  • Profile picture of the author Debbie Songster
    There seems to be some gray areas because I just posted (what was supposed to be a WSO) my membership site.
    Actually the WSO is me giving Warriors $20 to buy my membership - I thought that was pretty original (not plr)
    My memberships are Cash Points that you use to buy products and services I have. Most of my products are services I provide such as keyword research but it appears that since I also have some content created by others that my WSO was placed in the Classified section.

    It failed to qualify as a WSO

    hmmm $40 spent to sit in the classified section that gets less than 1/10 the visitors then the WSO section gets
    I would have been better off spending $20 on an eBay classified ad

    Thats $40 wasted

    Getting back to what qualifies for a WSO ... I though I knew but I guess I don't

    Looks like the PLR article guy wins
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    • Profile picture of the author John Taylor
      Originally Posted by Debbie Songster View Post


      Looks like the PLR article guy wins
      Wrong.

      It was eventually reported and has now been
      dealt with.

      When you look at the volume of threads in the
      WSO Forum it's inevitable that the odd one or
      two people will try to push the boundaries.

      That particular thread was reported by three
      people none of whom have posted in this thread.

      Can I suggest: If you see something that you
      believe is breaking the rules, use the report
      button. The earlier these things get reported
      the sooner we can deal with them.

      John
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      • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
        So to clarify,

        If I had a book that was all my own work, could I offer say a bunch of video's I have on a site as a bonus to have access to even though I bought the rights to them.

        For example the book is all my work but the video's were not but they're not paying for them. Book costs money video's are free? I haven't even posted a WSO just trying to find out what I can do if I post one in the future.

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  • Profile picture of the author Tomwood
    Maybe you could if you put all the plr articles in a giant database and added some unique features like a build in search facility, a build in spinner, maybe a build in anchor text adder or new headline generator.

    Then your wso would focus on these unique features and not on the plr which would be the bonus
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  • Profile picture of the author Sheryl Polomka
    Yes Richard I believe that is right. As long as the main product that you are selling is original to you.
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