How To Rewrite PLR

My instinct is to say don't.

That said, if you have to do it, try to get the main points, and get a basic understanding of each one, then rewrite based on structuring those, rather than rewriting it all the way through.

Also, if you're not a native English speaker, especially do the latter. I've read some incredibly bad stuff that was an obvious rewrite. It's much better to get at least a basic understanding of every point that you're dealing with and then to write in a holistic way rather than just rewriting each sentence.

I have to disagree with RobeStrong...

I think PLR is a valuable part of an internet business...

BUT - You must use it correctly!

Don't re-hash PLR - but instead use it as an "outline" to structure your product. Use it for research and inspiration.

A lot of times just going through PLR and correcting the errors and doing some minor re-writing in the process will be enough to give you a pretty nice product to work from.

The key is to add value.

You can add more value by using the finished product and turning it into Mp3's and Mp4's and mindmaps. This increases the perceived value of the product and will help it stand out from similar products.

I have a product on this - but I'm not going to post the link as I don't want to self-promote it, but you can search the WSO section and you will find it along with many others that would help you.

Hope this helps

Cheers,
Coby

PLR = private label rights. Why do you want to rewrite PLR ebooks? If you buy PLR ebooks, so you have right to promote PLR ebooks under your name. So why this called as PLR.

If you think a PLR ebook is not good to sell, you search better PLR ebook to buy or hire someone to write a new ebook for you.

I have a lot of PLR too just sitting on my hard drive. Too many too count and have no idea what to do with it all. I do agree that you can rewrite it but not word for word.

It will definitely be more beneficial to give it a fresh spin.

I've always liked the idea of bringing together similar PLR and making it into a longer article. Maybe you may want to try that and let us know how it works out for you

To your success,
Elle

If you're going to use PLR content, the first step would be to make sure you're using high quality PLR content. If you start off by using weak PLR content, then you're going to end up spending a whole lot more time and effort working on that PLR content, than if you started with high quality PLR content.

There's probably a lot of ways to approach rewriting PLR content and it all depends on the person. Some may only change words here and there. Some may choose to only rewrite parts of the content. Some may only use the content as an outline or starting point and completely rework the content... adding more value, their personality, a different perspective etc.

So, there's lots of ways that you could approach rewriting PLR content. But, don't just aim to rewrite the content. Focus on adding more value to the content.

As far as advice on rewriting PLR content goes, Easy PLR has a short video over here, on one way to approach rewriting PLR content.

I want to thank you guys for your advice and ideas. I'm going to use these tips to my advantage.

Sometimes it takes longer to rewrite a bad article than to just start from scratch. Try timing yourself when rewriting to see if working with the bad articles are even worth your time.

It may help you to rewrite phrases within sentences. For example, if I were to rewrite that sentence I just wrote, I would start by changing "It may help you" to "You might benefit from" and continue on with the rest of the sentence in the same way. Give it a try - I think it's a quick and easy way to edit PLR that I want to make unique.

You kind of need to be a decent writer to do this, at best.

The most effective tips I can offer you are:

Never rewrite any PLR material sentence for sentence. Eliminate anything that is unnecessary or could be classified as "filler" content. Add more meat to the parts that seem sparse. Combine two ideas into one sentence instead, when it reads better that way.

Any writing that compares two things or gives specific examples of something should be replaced with new concepts that you either think of yourself or discover upon further research of the topic.

Always sprinkle a few facts, figures and other notes into the material to make your writing more unique and credible.

I think PLR has great value, because the research has been done for you. You don't have to sell PLR to get value out of them. You don't even have to rewrite them, you could use the strong points to write your own content with it.

I learned a long time ago when doing journalism that you can rewrite almost anything and make it your own.

I used the 'precise' technique.

Mark the keywords in every paragraph and then using them write a 'shorter' paragraph. The original meaning will still be there.

It is much easier than you may think.

Hi Dacia

I would ask one question first. Is your rewriting for yourself or do you wish to sell your rewrites?

Like you I have a load of PLR on my hard drive infact I used to be a paid member of plr memberships to get top quality plr every single month.

There is a lot of good material in plr and it helps you provide the 'container' or 'structure' for your information. You can add or subtract from the material, add a few images, change the format from ebook to audio and so on. Essentially it sometimes beats creating an ebook from scratch. Saves time on research. Helps if you know your subject so you can make it unique to you.

In that regard plr is cool. In my experience (I have been using my own rewriting strategies to make a bit of money and at some point I intend to put together a 'how to' product on it.

One thing I would advice is that you get rid of poor quality plr. Cheap plr is all over the net but they are often poorly written and in poor English and just plain hard work to rewrite as you end up spending time trying to find out exactly what the writer had in mind. That's a time waster!

For now and in answer to your question I can say there are some resources on re writing plr by Warrior Peggy (Google something like how to rewrite plr) and another by John Schwartz (I don't know if he still sells his).

You can PM them or me if you need more help.

I hope this helps.


Cheerio!

Will D

If you have poor quality plr, trash it.

With the good stuff, sort through each ebook's table of contents and see where you can mix chapters together from a variety of similar ebooks and create a new ebook out of it.

Then change the cover, Title, chapter titles...

You now have a new ebook. If you want to take it further, then add some original content in there or rewrite the existing content.

If you are thinking of using the content out of an ebook for web content (blog posts or whatever), and if you care about your status in Google search, don't use ebook content or plr articles for that.

These are some of the uses I listed for PLR articles in a promo I did a few years back:

Oh, for the record I'm not a fan of spinning at all but many of my customers were. So it goes... :rolleyes:

What can you do with PLR Articles?

Turn Articles into Special Reports
Turn Articles into eCourses
Turn Articles into eBooks
Turn Articles into Autoresponder Series Messages
Turn Articles into Web Content
Spin Articles and Promote Your Products
Spin Articles and Submit To Gain Backlinks for Your Site
Start an Article Submission Service Offering PLR Content
Start An Article Spinning Service and Offer The PLR Content
Use eBooks and Special Reports as Opt-In List Building Giveaways
Use eBooks and Special Reports as Bonus Items for Your Offers
Re-Write eBooks, Special Reports, and eCourses and Re-Market Them
Use Website Templates to Create Your Own Sites
Create Niche "Buyers Guides" Using PLR ContentUse PLR Content To Create Viral Reports Promoting Your Affiliate Links
Modify and use Sales Letters to Promote Your Own Products
Sell eBooks, Software and Special Reports as they are.
Bundle Various Products and Sell, them or Use for Opt-In Offers
Read Some of This Excellent Material and Put It To Use For Your Business
Modify Websites, Sales Letters and Product and Promote to Various Niches
Create Newsletters from eBooks, Articles, and Sales Letters
Use The Content As Scripts To Produce Unique Audio Recordings and Videos
Use PLR Content For Webinars, Podcasts and Teleconference Calls
Use PLR Content To Create Marketing and Sales Material for Offline Marketing
Compile PLR Content Into Special "Tips" ReportsTranslate PLR Content into Other Languages and Break Into New Markets
Use PLR Content For FAQ Pages
Create Banner Ads From PLR Sales Letter Content
Revise PLR Content and Use As 'Before and After' Copy To Pursue Editing Gigs
Use PLR Content To Brainstorm New Product Ideas
Use PLR Content in Posting To Niche Forums
Create "Top 10" Lists For Your Niche Using PLR Content

Starting off with high quality is an absolute necessity. Otherwise it is far more work that its worth. A little over three years ago, I paid $50 for a quality PLR ebook from a member here on Warrior Forum. I reworded a few things so that it would pass on Amazon...and I have made $500 to $600 per month for over three years without doing a single thing more to it.

I like PLR if its good quality. To make it good, think of it as an outline...and consider your job as filling in the blanks. This ends up giving you a quicker and easier way to create your own unique product.

When I end up with crap PLR, I immediately cut my losses and move on. If not, you'll be spinning your wheels.

I don't know of any courses that teach how to rewrite PLR. Again, use the PLR as an outline, do some research on the main points and fill it in.

In most cases you should rewrite PLR or have someone else rewrite PLR. Now, if you are using it for product creation, you do not always have to re-write it. For example, in an ebook using PLR as is might be fine. However, to post on your website, it is not unique.

The only value I've gained from PLR is topic ideas for articles. With respect to the actual articles, I've never found any PLR that is worth using. In my early days I downloaded tons of the stuff (banging my head against the computer in disappointment struggling to maintain hope for finding something usable). After all that the only value I found was having a list of topic ideas for new articles.

I too have about 50 PLR e-books sitting on my computer and they are all in the IM niche about making money online and different things. I was thinking of taking a few ideas from each one and creating a few new e-books to sell. Would that be something that could be done? Make it all my own words and rather than rehashing come up with new ideas and use the books as an outline?

You may chose the best ones or the plr that have valuable content and outsource the work in odesk or elance to rewrite them.

If you have the time and experience to re-write them yourself then fantastic.
If you don't then just outsource it for a re-write. You have to be very careful though as there are lots of so called writers out there that are rubbish. You really need to quality control what ever is given back to you after a re-write.

Very good suggest in this thread. Thanks you guys

PLR products can be an extremely valuable resource in making your own products if you know how to think outside the box in the way you present it.

Don't just take a PLR product, slap your name on it and call it a day.

Instead, make a course, videos, reports, and do some re-editing to the PLR to put your own twist on it. The sky is basically the limit.

My next WSO has quite alot of PLR in it, but I've literally modified so much of it that it's probably going to blow away my previous WSO in terms of originality and value. It's just taking so long since I have to manually rewrite and add my own things, but the end result will definitely be worth it.

For me personally, I will like to read through the PLR material and add in my own points. I will also correct or update the content if necessary so that the reader will get more value out of the ebook.

I like to use PLR content to give me ideas on the main layout of the content. This is definitely better than just writing the whole ebook from scratch

If you don't want to sell PLR as it is, then using it is a great starting point for creating your own content. There are so many ways you can use it. The research is done and the content is there. Take that, add you thoughts/experiences, enhance it (or make it relevant to current rules) and you could end up with a nice profit sucking WSO!!