What Is PLR?
Last week, I wrote that Nicole Dean from EasyPLR released a report to help bloggers and affiliates understand and better make use of PLR as a timesaver.
If you didn’t pick up that free report, no optin required, click here to open the PDF in a new tab!
However, a lot of readers indicated that they skipped the report because they really didn’t even know enough about what PLR is or how it could help them.
So… over the next few days I’m going to give Nicole an opportunity to teach you a little more about this powerful resource!
Nicole Dean of http://EasyPLR.com answers the question “What is PLR?” in this quick video for Bloggers and other online business owners interested in PLR articles.
She also shares how you can get discounts on PLR and even some free PLR articles, too.
Have you started putting PLR to work for you? How do you feel it has impacted your business? Who are your favorite PLR providers? If you’ve not utilized PLR what may be holding you back from doing so? Got any questions? Leave them below and I look forward to sharing with you!
Here’s To Your Success
Kimberly Castleberry
PS: Curious where my favorite PLR comes from? Check out Melissa Ingold (Special Report Club), Nicole Dean (Easy PLR), Alice Seba (DIY PLR), Tiffany Dow (PLR Mini Mart), master-resale-rights.com, and lastly tradebit.com (cheapest but often not best quality). I’m a proud affiliate of most of these and if you make a purchase they are obligated by law to buy me a cheeseburger 
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Hello Kim and All,
I am sorry to write this. I do not really wish to undermine attempts or anything, but although PLR is a good way to obtain content and make it easier to do so, there are some dangers with it. I feel compelled to add this comment to ensure readers are educated to make the best possible informed decision for them. Firstly, it depends on what the PLR is used for and what the user wishes to accomplish using it. If you are a website owner wishing to use PLR strictly as your main content, do not have the time to write your own content, and just wish to provide information and give a viewer reason to return to your site because of regular updating content, then PLR is for you. I can see this as a valid workable approach through mass traffic once people find you, and see people using this as a possible means for affiliate program traffic funneling, but to me, this is not optimal because of the danger inherent within PLR.
The danger of PLR relates to the SEO side of our work, duplicate content. If you have done your SEO homework, then you know all about duplicate content. In addition, although yes, there is no such real thing as a “duplicate content penalty”, there IS the problem associated with competition of the content. Please allow me to illustrate.
Say you purchased PLR content from a well-known PLR writer. Depending on how well known they are, that could me thousands, tens of thousands, or more, other people who purchased that same content. Now, let us assume that most of those buyers just copied and pasted the PLR into their blog. That is now how many people with the same information in exactly the same word format, like carbon copies, all over the web? Can you see where I am going here?
The point is simple. From the SEO standpoint, PLR can be a potential nightmare. When it comes to content, whether it is for a blog or any other website, the BEST content is going to be valuable original content with one sole creator, you. Although you may compete with thousands of others on a content topic theme, you decrease the number of carbon copy competitors.
Kim’s blog post at http://just-ask-kim.com/why-rewrite-plr-content/ talks about just this subject, but wanted to add this here, as it is the start point of this series. They are a great source of ideas, and in rewriting them, you can add your own knowledge to the text while cutting down the competition associated above, and so many other benefits to rewriting.
Forgot in last post. I do use PLR myself, to a degree, but I use it as suppliment content. Most of the stuff on my site was written by me. An example of PLR there is The Seven Signs of a Scam, a little outdated but just to show, although I wrote what I did above, yes I have been known to use it from time to time.
Wait, that last link isn’t quite PLR, but same principle. Forgot, PLR the writer gets no credit for, that was free articles. Eh, woops, still applies though, the only difference, PLR looks like your own. The rest still applies lol. Now where is my coffee? =)
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