Using PLR to my advantage!

How about editing them so you can use them for list mail outs?

The time you took to write this post, you could have re-written one of them.
The time that you are going to take over the next day or so responding to others posting to your question, you will have been able to re-write all of your articles. My advice, re-write your articles.

i would definitely just re-write like 50% of it. the first and last paragraph. the other 50% just spin. i dont think Google hurts sites for duplicate info. it's sites that are over 50% duplicate info. there's a lot of websites that have borrowed articles.

Google will eventually penalize your websites if you don't have original content. Rewriting articles really isn't that difficult, you just need to get yourself into the habit of doing it, making it a priority. You should also want to care about putting out quality products, including quality websites that benefit other people by solving their problems or providing them with something that they want or need. This shouldn't be about benefiting you.

It won't matter if you use paid traffic as the visitors will still come and you won't have to rely on goggle for your visitors
Scotty

k then convert them to videos, podcast and PPT it is fairly easy to do this.. then upload them to different sharing sites accordingly and links back to you site....

this way you can get traffic and this will also not hurt you back.

share it on sites like:- youtube, vimeo, slideshare, Podcast Alley and iTunes..

Another idea that has not been mentioned is to use them as curated content. By this, you take the articles and divide it up into about 6-8 sections and comment on each section. So you start with an introduction to your readers telling them that you found a good article to share with them. Then you add section one of the article and make some comments about the points raised. You do this all the way through and finish with your own comments about what was written. This makes it look like new content to Google and gives your readers good info.

I would also say you should rewrite yourself. Or at best repurpose them. It wouldn't take much to perform a simple enough edit that it was no longer recognized by Google. Basically three options, either outsource a rewrite, bite the bullet and do it yourself, or just pull the content and only send it to users privately.

You guys are right. How can I expect to be successful being mr. lazy bones...lol. But I am interested in learning more about curated content. I've heard this term a lot recently. Do any of you know of a good tutorial or WSO that would shed light on this option?

Another idea: get them turned into INFOGRAPHICS or dictated into podcasts. There are just so many ways you can RECYCLE content.

I wish this MYTH would go away once and for all...especially on a forum like the Warrior Forum which is supposed to be full of marketers.

The duplicate content penalty is absolutely false.

Duplicate content only effects your page if you have multiple pages on your site with the same content.

When the content is on a different website altogether, it can be word-for-word duplicate without a penalty.

The idea is that the original publisher will get the benefits of the rankings. So you won't rank for the content, but it won't hurt you either.

Of course the original publisher sometimes gets outranked by a bigger site if they pick up the content (check this out: SlideShare Marketing: How to Gain a Bigger Audience In Minutes - it's an experiment I ran with SlideShare and publishing original content). Though they will normally give you credit for the content and send you a good amount of traffic.

The bottom line is that the duplicate content penalty is severely misunderstood and unfortunately continually perpetuated.

If you wanna know a bit more about content curation I wrote a pretty lengthy blog post about it here: Content Curation: The Ultimate Guide - Content Strategy Hub

I wanted to weigh in here - someone mentioned spinning above. If they mean spinning using software then just stay well clear. This won't do anything for you but produce garbage.

Also, glad to see someone mentioning that the duplicate content penalty is a myth. You can use content that has been published elsewhere and you don't need to hide it from Google. It's best if you can add to it or have other unique content to build a more useful site, however.

Quick Ways I Use PLR:

(Before I start, I am a PLR seller myself but I also buy it and use it in my niche sites)

1) Email newsletters - this is one of my favourite ways to use PLR. I had a niche site that got decent traffic so I decided to quickly set up a mailing list using 100% PLR. All I did was add a personalized sentence to the beginning and end of each email. And that email list grew really fast. I chose high quality PLR and people even emailed me thanking me for the info.

2) Opt in incentives - to get people to sign up to your email list you probably want to give them a freebie. It's really easy to put up a PLR report, but here's another idea. Quickly note down the main points of the PLR report and create a checklist out of it. Give that checklist away as a freebie. People love stuff they can *use* right away.

3) Blog posts - when I post PLR to my blog I am not afraid to keep much of it the same. But I do go through and add my personal voice. This could mean adding a personal story, adding some of your experience in the subject, or even injecting a little humour. Whatever it is that you normally do. This has again worked really well for me and people have thanked me on useful posts that were based off PLR.

Hope that helps!

Like both Eugene and Ruth said, the duplicate content penalty is misunderstood.

Duplicate content is content that appears on your own website more than once.

If you have content that appears on other websites, Google will select one to put in the rankings, so yours may never show up. They'll base it on perceived value and authority.

If you just want to use PLR for your blog and don't care about rankings, don't worry about rewriting.

However, if you want people to benefit from your content and come back again and again, you need to do something that makes it valuable for YOUR reader.

So, rather than wasting time spinning junk or rewriting just for the sake of it, try adding value:

- images
- tip boxes
- suggested resources or places for more info
- related quotes
- examples or personal stories
- your own contradictory opinion
- and different formats of the same content (audio, slides, infographic, mindmap, etc)

If you're interested in curation, I picked up a copy of CurationSoft a little while back and absolutely love it. That's my link, but you can always Google it.

Good luck with your PLR!

Is it possible to outrank a regular site (semi authoritative) by snatching his content and creating a Squidoo lens with it?

Squidoo should have more weight in the eyes of google...

I knocked up a video showing how I rewrite content :-)

I always use PLR to either re sell it or you can use it in your email sequence to add value to your list before you try and sell them something very good.

I use spin rewriter, it creates a readable spin. I proof read, make some adjustments and post the article(s) on my blogs.

I bookmarked this thread 2 years ago, it may give you some tips.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ne-income.html

be careful and check the uniqueness, I don`t really trust PLRs because they get in the hands of SO MANY PEOPLE.

Another great use for PLR is for solo ad 'guest posts' on related lists.

Do yourself a favor: don't "hide" certain pages from Google. Just re-write the articles. It won't hurt you physically, i promise you. What you are looking to do, Google's engineers have probably already anticipated marketers who want to do this very same thing. In short, re-write them.

Hate to say it, but it does sound lazy. I mean you want to take the same blah, blah, blah that a pile of other people have used and expect that Google or the random web surfer will find your site to be valuable? Add your own 2-cents in! Usually PLR is so poorly written that I feel I HAVE to edit it.

Well that is just my 2-cents, take it or leave it.

You can compile them into a report and give it away to build your own list of subscribers. If you want to put on your blog, I will suggest that you edit the article and put in your own views so that it will be unique piece of article. But I will always make sure that I am getting them to my list so that I will be able to direct them to any website that I want them to go.