PLR stands for ‘private label rights’ which itself is short for private label rights articles. This still sounds like gobbledy-gook even to me and I have been conscious of the term for 12 years or so. It in essence refers to articles, written by a different person, to which you own some rights.
What those rights are relies on the terms and conditions that you received or purchased with the pieces. Typically, you are permitted to use the articles ‘as are’ in your own literary efforts; rewrite them for use by yourself and occasionally you get ‘master resell rights’ too.
Master resell rights permit you to resell them as they are and you may keep all the money. However, there are variations in this clause too. Therefore, the best suggestion is to read the rights that you have received with your PLR very thoughtfully before you use it
Authors have learned to be very pro-active against copyright abuse and most Internet Service Providers will shut down the accounts of people suspected of abusing copyright. The right to use a piece is quite easily established, so it is simply not worth cheating and hoping no one will notice.
So, what can you use PLR for? Assuming that you have the authority to use it as it is and to rewrite it, there are a number of ways to earn money from your Private Label Rights articles.
Supporting An Existing Business: if you have an on (or off) line business selling, say, gardening tools, but your website gets hardly any traffic because it ranks so low on Google, you can use PLR to boost its place.
You could publish the PLR as is into article databases and hope that they will be further distributed providing you with backlinks to your website. Backlinks are the rocket fuel that sends websites to the top of the search engines for keywords and phrases.
Backlinks are in the last couple of lines of the piece where you say a bit about yourself and or your business and give a URL where people can go for more info – a link back to your site. The more backlinks, in general, the higher you will rank in Google
However, better than merely republishing that PLR, is rewriting it and then publishing it. By rewriting it, you have produced a unique piece, which Google prizes more highly. A backlink on a unique article on a site on a issue related to your site is the best backlink of all.
Supporting A New Business: Let’s say you wished to attempt to earn money from a number of web sites and you judged that ten could supply a helpful extra income, you could purchase ten packs of PLR and have your ten web sites up and running within a month. This is a very fast way of creating an online presence.
If you bought a pack of 15 PLR, you could have a ten page website with five supporting pages or a five page website with ten supporting pages up on the Net each two-three days. If you had to do all the research and writing yourself, it would take months. The trick is to buy good-quality PLR.
Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a variety of subjects, and is now involved with PLR Articles for Sale. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at PLR Articles.