Using Private Label Rights Articles

by Sean Rasmussen on July 1, 2009

in Internet Marketing, Self Promotion

Private Label Rights ArticlesPrivate Label Rights Articles, or PLR articles, are packs of articles that are often written on a particular topic. When you buy these, you buy the rights to use them as is, or to modify them to suit your needs.

Private Label Rights Articles And Your Business

How can this benefit your internet marketing efforts? By giving you a variety of articles that you can use on your website or blog, and the ability to rewrite them and post elsewhere.

This can be a great timesaver. It is also economical. Large packs of articles can be purchased quite cheaply and many websites offering PLR articles allow you to sign up for a subscription plan that is even more economical.

Many entrepreneurs start a blog, or several blogs, as a marketing tool for their business. Often they do not have the time to create new posts on a regular basis and keep traffic coming to the site. PLR articles could be a good solution for updating your blog effortlessly.

PLR articles can be tweaked so that they’re posted on a hub page, a lens (such as Squidoo), submitted to article directories, used in email marketing, or even rewritten into a full length e-book that you can offer for sale on your site. There are a variety of different places they can be posted again and again, offering nearly limitless potential for promotion.

An added benefit of buying Private Label Rights Articles is that they can inspire you to create your own original content. If you are struggling for new approaches to a particular topic, you might just get a great new idea by reading someone else’s words.

Some Cautionary Advice

Remember that the major search engines such as Google and Yahoo do not look kindly upon website owners who post the duplicate content at more than one URL. The main purpose of buying PLR articles is to give you the ability to rewrite them before disseminating them across the internet.

Ensure that each keyphrase is written in a different way and the sentences do not use the same beginning words. For example, if the original sentence is “Do not make the mistake of putting all your marketing eggs into one basket” rewrite it to something like “It is a mistake to use all your online marketing dollars on only one strategy”.

You may want to further into optimising keywords and phrases in the articles you purchase. Unless they have been created specifically for your business, they will often not contain the most important keywords you’ve identified.

Rewriting the articles also ensures that your own style and voice are added. If you have created the majority of the posts on your blog, for instance, then adding content written by someone else may stand out as a glaring discrepancy. Consider at least writing a unique overview for each piece.

Content definitely helps you with every aspect of your online business and Private Label Rights Articles are a great way to post lots of content in a short amount of time. Do ensure that your site(s) contain quality over and above quantity and understand the rights of the packages you purchase.

Some packages are available in limited quantities (which works better in terms of not trying to publish something that has already been published 1,000 times) and some offer re-sell rights as well. Be sure you understand the scenario and the usage rights for the PLR package you purchase.

Have a most outstanding day.

Sean Rasmussen
Aussie Internet Marketing
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008 - 2010

 

{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Gee March 20, 2010 at 11:12 pm

This is interesting but I would probably opt for a ghost writer especially as I am struggling a bit with being able to write

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2 Jazz Salinger March 22, 2010 at 10:23 pm

Hi Sean,

Would you buy a PLR package and use it? Can you recommend somewhere I can trust?

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3 Sean Rasmussen March 23, 2010 at 10:19 am

I personally don’t use them Jazz, the article was written to provide information to people who are thinking of going down that track and some of the things to look out for if you do opt to use PLR articles. They can be beneficial if used correctly, and that means by using the information to create your own spin on a particular topic.

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4 Rita Pepper March 27, 2010 at 2:08 pm

Hi Sean
I have seen a few sites (ages ago) that were selling PLR but they looked too busy too like they were saying come on sucker, so I didnt even look, if it does not feel right I don’t.
Rita

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5 Sean Rasmussen March 29, 2010 at 11:27 am

Going with your gut feeling is the best way to go in most circumstances Rita ;-)

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6 Elly July 14, 2010 at 5:28 pm

Hi Sean

Interesting information to put in the bank of knowledge. I am sure I won’t run out of subject matter to blog about and won’t need to purcahse private label rights articles.

Thankyou.

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7 Jill Brown July 15, 2010 at 7:46 pm

Hi Sean,
Using Private Label Rights Articles is a great option to have available. Would it be a mixture of topics that the purchaser receives in a package or can I choose a topic of interest?

How many PLR articles are in a purchase package and how much do they cost?

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