I received a lot of questions about my twitter “Tip of the Day” on using PLR articles. First let me explain about PLR articles, they are articles that you either get for free for joining a PLR membership site or worse from sites where you pay a monthly fee or an article based fee.
When I first started making websites I stumbled upon a site where I would get 500 articles just for joining. Not a big deal and with these articles I could get my site up and running faster. Once I started putting up these articles I found my site getting more traffic. After the first two months I upgraded to the fee based service where for $9.99 I could get 5000 articles a month.
The problem is they were the same articles that everyone else was getting for free and placing them on their sites. When Google got smart to this all my sites got dropped. I went from making a nice buck to almost zero. Costly lesson indeed, the only people that make money off PLR sites are the people that are getting newbies like me to pay for their service.
90% of the 5000 articles were not based in my niche so they were worthless, I still have these articles but I don’t use them as site content. I will use them if I get writers block just for subject ideas, or for email subjects. Putting any article on your site that you get from a free or fee based plr membership is totaly worthless and waste your time.
Thanks for all the people on Twitter who asked me about PLR articles. If you are not following me on Twitter you can add yourself and get my “tip of the day” when I remember to give one. http://www.twitter.com/nyfalcon
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Great advice! Thanks!
For those needing a nudge towards new article ideas, I like to pick one word … any word … it has to be a subject I like or find interesting in one of my niches and then I do a search on Google for that word. While reading the search results, usually something interesting will turn up that jogs my mind into a “wow connection moment”. Then I can write from personal experience about “something”.
Another helpful hint that works for me:
I have a special folder on my hard drive for unfinished trains of thought or idea pieces. When I think of several ideas at once or I write things that have nothing in common with each other, instead of just deleting the extra stuff from my writing, I copy and paste the extra idea(s) to a new Notepad or Word document and if I cannot flesh it out right then for whatever reason [lack of time, nothing else to say about it right then, no time to research needed facts, etc], I have it stored in my “ideas to finish later” folder.
Hoep this helps
Barbara
You’re actually not supposed to use them as is. You can, and some people do, but an experienced PLR buyer takes them and tweaks them a little to make them more relevant to their own website. You can also hire someone to rewrite them entirely, or you can take a few and weave them together to make an ebook or a longer piece. Also, if you use them as an autoresponder, there is no penalty from Google and you have plenty of content to send out.