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Private Label Rights: Is It Quality Content Or Spam?
I still see private label rights articles being sold left and right online. Why? Doesn’t everyone know by now these are just spam articles being sold over and over. Think about this …
You’ve bought 50 articles in a niche-related category. Those same articles were sold to 1,000 thousand other website owners in your niche. How original do you think they are? Furthermore, even if you rewrite them you’ll run into duplicate content issues. Most people who rewrite private label articles don’t rewrite them enough to make them totally original. Therefore, search engine duplicate content filters catch them and treat them just like any other duplicate content.
If you are going to rewrite articles that you purchased as private label rights content, you may as well just write articles from scratch. It takes the same amount of time to write articles from scratch as it does to rewrite PLR articles so why waste time correcting what someone else screwed up with those PLR articles that are overused anyway? Just write original articles and get done with it.
“How Much Of That Article Should I Rewrite?”
All of it, says Chris Knight.
This is the same thing we’ve been saying for a long time now. PLR articles are useless. Word for word, idea for idea, I could not have said it better myself:
Non-content spammers but well-meaning newbies will ask this question: How much must I change or rewrite my article so that your content filters won’t reject it or suspend my account? The answer is all of it. Seriously, don’t rewrite your own articles. Just create new ones. It’s not that hard.
You can do it.
Today it’s just one article directory, but that’s how it usually starts. By this time next year there will be a half dozen more article directories instituting the same policy. Why? Because e-zine publishers and webmasters don’t want the same rehashed content that all of their competitors have. It does them no good. They can’t monetize it, they can’t rank with it, and it doesn’t benefit their readers. Therefore, it doesn’t benefit the article directory. And what doesn’t benefit the article directory doesn’t benefit you. So you might as well write your articles from scratch.
“But what if I can’t write?”
No problem. Call a ghostwriter. Not only will you get fresh, unique content, but you own it and you can use it, re-use, and distribute it as many times as you wish – all for the same price. That’s the nature of work for hire. We work for you and you own the content. If you’re going to do it, you might as well do it right. In other words, learn to say the alphabet with the letters P, L and R.
What do Santa Clause, The Tooth Fairy, and Valuable PLR Content Have in Common?
I just love a good headline, but the only thing those three things have in common is that none of them exist.
Yes, I know it’s Christmas and we shouldn’t talk bad about Santa, but picking on PLR articles is fun so I can’t pass that up.
PLR stands for Private Label Rights. There are a lot of marketers who sell PLR articles through squeeze pages, long sales, letters, touting the benefits of article marketing and telling you that PLR articles are the way to make money and build link popularity.
They may as well tell people that PLR content sures cancer, makes certain body parts larger, and helps you find real estate for no money down.
They write one article on a topic and sell that article to hundreds of people for pennies. They tell you to edit the article a little and it will be original content.
I know some of these gurus will hate me for it, but I have to tell you that there is no truth to that whatsoever. It will not be original content unless you rewrite it from scratch. If you did that, you may as well write it in the first place.
Use copyscape.com to check your content against other content found by google on the web and you will see that you have not purchased original content.
PLR articles are duplicate content, pure and simple. Use them at your own risk.
