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Silly (?) Questions about PLR WSOs

by SunilTanna
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I have some really good content (Amazon reviews for some high ticket products, etc.) that I am not using, and which I am very confident could be profitably monetized. I just don't have the time to do it properly myself.

Rather than sit on it, I have thought about putting it as a PLR WSO.

I don't want to do it if either me, or my customers, are going to get to get a bad deal.

1. Concern for my customers: Obviously it is my more valuable to customers if not too many are using the content.

I can easily limit the number of sales I make.

But what if one customer then goes on and resells it or puts it on a membership site (it is PLR after all). One customer doing that could ruin it for 10, 20 or 50 customers using it to actually do review sites.

2. Concern for myself: If it's PLR, what is to stop one customer, immediately reselling it at a lower price on the WSO Forum. Ruining for me.


I am over thinking this? What's the best way to deal with this?
#plr #questions #silly #wsos
  • Profile picture of the author Alex Barboza
    Originally Posted by SunilTanna View Post

    2. Concern for myself: If it's PLR, what is to stop one customer, immediately reselling it at a lower price on the WSO Forum. Ruining for me.

    This is against WSO rules, so I wouldn't worry about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author SunilTanna
    Thank's that solves 1 problem.

    What about the other one? Should I even be worried about it?
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  • Profile picture of the author john01a
    You are the the original source of the PLR content (i.e. the creator of the PLR content) so you get to decide the terms of the PLR license.

    Since you only want your customers to have Private Label Rights, simply sell the PLR content as non transferable PLR content (also sometimes called Personal PLR content). In other words, the PLR license prohibits the holder of the PLR content (i.e. your customers) from passing on PLR to the content, on to others.

    This is actually quite common. A lot of PLR content providers sell non transferable PLR content.

    If you want, you can find out more about Non Transferable PLR content providers on this thread

    As far as your first question about limiting sales... again, as the creator of the PLR content, you can decide to whether you want to limit sales and how much you want to limit sales by. This type of PLR content is referred to as Limited Edition PLR content, but also called Limited Distribution PLR content and Limited Supply PLR content.

    I'm convinced that limited edition PLR content is actually the best type of PLR content to use (from a buyer's perspective who actually wants to use the content, not resell it). So, if you do limit the sales, this is definitely something that you should make clear to potential customers because it's a selling point.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Originally Posted by SunilTanna View Post

    2. Concern for myself: If it's PLR, what is to stop one customer, immediately reselling it at a lower price on the WSO Forum. Ruining for me.
    They aren't allowed to sell a product that they did not create, a unique product, as a WSO.
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  • Profile picture of the author mknowles2262
    there will probably be one person out there who will take your stuff and not abide by the license but you cant stop them unless you catch them... but you usually dont have to worry...most people will follow the rules.
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    You can put resale restrictions. Also, you can restrict the usage to email or ebook only. As you know PANDA is a reality and duplicate content might get your buyers penalized. That's why you need to restrict republication to non-web pages.
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    • Profile picture of the author john01a
      Originally Posted by writeaway View Post

      ...you can restrict the usage to email or ebook only. As you know PANDA is a reality and duplicate content might get your buyers penalized. That's why you need to restrict republication to non-web pages.
      Interesting point.

      A lot of people see PLR content as no longer being as useful as if once was, because they tend to focus only on the online uses of PLR content.

      Sure, using PLR content online (for web content) may not be as useful as it once was, but what about all the uses other than trying to use PLR content to gain favor from search engines?

      PLR content is still useful... it's just that the usefulness leans more to uses other than using it as web content.
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by writeaway View Post

      You can put resale restrictions. Also, you can restrict the usage to email or ebook only. As you know PANDA is a reality and duplicate content might get your buyers penalized. That's why you need to restrict republication to non-web pages.
      That's pure nonsense. Syndicated content is all over the web, and all of it indexed, including syndicated content that I use. Duplicate content has always meant duplicate content on the same site, not duplicate content on the web.

      It is far more effective use of PLR to rewrite at least a portion of it, but the big bad boogey man won't get you if you don't.
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      • Profile picture of the author akowally
        They cannot repost your WSO since it is not allowed.

        On the other hand, make sure you create rules that you are perfectly comfortable with.

        All the best.
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        • Profile picture of the author LoneWolfMuskoka
          Resale rights in general are not fixed. You can give any rights to the product that you want and restrict rights that you want. Technically, the basic right of PLR is that you can make changes to the content as you see fit. The most common change is labeling the product.

          The right to pass PLR rights to your customer is not included by default as many people assume. In fact, no resale or giveaway rights are granted unless they are explicitly mentioned.

          You also need to be careful about the rules of places where you may want to use PLR. Many article directories forbid you to use it. Kindle frowns on it. If you use it for a guest post on someone's blog they'll likely be very upset with you when they find out.

          Use PLR wisely -- for ebooks, email autoresponders, posts on your own sites. In other words, places where you have control.
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      • Profile picture of the author Interpreneur
        Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

        That's pure nonsense. Syndicated content is all over the web, and all of it indexed, including syndicated content that I use. Duplicate content has always meant duplicate content on the same site, not duplicate content on the web.

        It is far more effective use of PLR to rewrite at least a portion of it, but the big bad boogey man won't get you if you don't.
        Please help me understand it correctly. Because there will be many customers buying the same PLR articles set and they're going to use them - let's say - on their site, won't this allow duplicate content on over the Web since there will be many sites using the same PLR content?

        Or to avoid being punished by Google, I would just change some phrases or sentences in the PLR articles that I'm going to use on my site and everything will be okay? What I'm trying to ask is is a PLR article required spinning before use?

        Thanks your clarification.
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        • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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          Originally Posted by Interpreneur View Post

          Please help me understand it correctly. Because there will be many customers buying the same PLR articles set and they're going to use them - let's say - on their site, won't this allow duplicate content on over the Web since there will be many sites using the same PLR content?

          Or to avoid being punished by Google, I would just change some phrases or sentences in the PLR articles that I'm going to use on my site and everything will be okay? What I'm trying to ask is is a PLR article required spinning before use?

          Thanks your clarification.
          The concept of duplicate content in Google has always meant duplicate content on the same domain. Some examples of this are using many tags in a post and each tag being listed in Google. Each tag for the same article is considered duplicate content. Another example, although more extreme, is the sidebars on a site or blog. Same sidebar on each post is duplicate content. Using multiple categories for the same post also produces duplicate content on a blog.

          Syndicated content is the same content across many domains. You see this with the same news report getting indexed by many different news media companies. They all get indexed and are not "penalized" by Google, although if Google can determine the original author, preference will be given to that article.

          As far as PLR goes, it's always best to write or rewrite the articles so that they are unique. You will have no issues with unique content as long as it isn't spun garbage. If you write interesting articles, you'll probably end up getting more visitors and repeat visitors as well, but as far as Google is concerned, I see Google index every instance of PLR articles that are published. You can see this easily if you use copyscape.

          Hope that clarifies it a bit.
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          • Profile picture of the author Interpreneur
            Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

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            Hope that clarifies it a bit.
            Thanks much for your clarification, sbucciarel.

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    • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
      Originally Posted by writeaway View Post

      You can put resale restrictions. Also, you can restrict the usage to email or ebook only. As you know PANDA is a reality and duplicate content might get your buyers penalized. That's why you need to restrict republication to non-web pages.
      I'm curious as to why you think it's the seller's responsibility to ensure that his customers don't do something stupid with the content? It's always been more effective to make changes to PLR before using it in any way, but many people don't do that. As a PLR seller, I don't believe I have any responsibility at all as to how they use the content I produce. My only responsibility is providing the best content I can - what they do with it is up to them.
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      • Profile picture of the author MissTerraK
        What Tina said!

        I couldn't have said it better myself Tina, and I completely concur.

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      • Profile picture of the author SunilTanna
        Originally Posted by Tina Golden View Post

        I'm curious as to why you think it's the seller's responsibility to ensure that his customers don't do something stupid with the content? It's always been more effective to make changes to PLR before using it in any way, but many people don't do that. As a PLR seller, I don't believe I have any responsibility at all as to how they use the content I produce. My only responsibility is providing the best content I can - what they do with it is up to them.
        I agree, and I'd go further.

        What one person perceives as stupidity, another may perceive as a brilliant idea. What's more, both may be right, depending on the circumstances.

        For example, one person might think duplicate content is terrible because of panda, or whatever. Another may not care, if they are getting their traffic from PPC ads or whatever, and they just want as much good content as they can get, as soon as possible.

        It's really not up to the seller of content to get involved in those kind of decisions, they have no knowledge of how the customer might use the content, and are in no position to make a judgement about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    Originally Posted by SunilTanna View Post

    2. Concern for myself: If it's PLR, what is to stop one customer, immediately reselling it at a lower price on the WSO Forum. Ruining for me.
    Others have said that people cannot resell your product on the forum and that is true, but people can still get around those rules. They could offer it as a bonus to a product or sell it on the backend to a WSO offer.

    What I would suggest you do is have a list of usage rights and inside those rights make it clear that people cannot resell or offer it as a bonus to any WSO product and can't sell it on sites like eBay or fiverr.
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    • Profile picture of the author john01a
      Originally Posted by WillR View Post

      Others have said that people cannot resell your product on the forum and that is true, but people can still get around those rules. They could offer it as a bonus to a product or sell it on the backend to a WSO offer.

      What I would suggest you do is have a list of usage rights and inside those rights make it clear that people cannot resell or offer it as a bonus to any WSo product and can't sell it on sites like eBay or fiverr.
      I agree. The best thing for you to do, is to just make it clear in the terms of the PLR license that's attached to the PLR content.

      Make it clear that the buyer cannot pass on Private Label Rights on to others. This way, only those who buy the PLR content from you, will ever have PLR to the content.
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