Is All PLR The Same?
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Private Label Rights, or what is commonly referred to as PLR, is a great shortcut to creating products, content for websites or just about anything. But, is all PLR the same? Truth is, some PLR isn't
worth the paper it's printed on. But how can you tell? In most cases, you don't get to see the PLR material until AFTER you have paid for it. Sure, you could ask for a refund, but you've still wasted your time on something that you shouldn't have gotten in the first place. So the question is, is there a way to shorten the process? Actually, there is.
Ask for author samples
Probably the easiest way to determine if the PLR you're thinking of getting is worth the paper it's printed on is simply to ask the author to see
other samples of their work. If the person offering the PLR is reputable, they'll have no problems pointing you to a resource. For example, if you're buying articles to use either in an AR series or on your blog, if the author is an established writer, there is a good chance that they have content elsewhere online with their name on it, such as at Ezine Articles. By showing you their work, this will give you a very good idea of what you're going to be getting from them.
Test an excerpt in a search engine
Another thing you want to do is make sure that you're not getting PLR that is plastered all over the Internet. A great way to do this is to ask for an excerpt from the work you're getting and running it through copyscape to see just how much of this stuff is out there. If it's old PLR and all over the place, you're going to have to do a lot of rewriting in order to make it unique enough for it to be of any use to you. Of course you should rewrite PLR anyway, but the fewer copies that are out there, the less rewriting you'll have to do.
Check the articles through article directories
Finally, you want to make sure that the PLR that you're getting didn't actually originate somewhere else. Some people simply sell PLR that's been rehashed from PLR that they themselves purchased. You want to make sure that the content you're getting from this person actually originated from them and that they have the rights to distribute it. Some people pass off copyrighted work as PLR, which is a violation of the original author's rights.
If you find the same article in an article directory with someone else's
name on it, chances are this is plagiarism. Contact the seller
immediately and ask about the situation.
PLR can be a real time saver, not so much in the rewriting part, but in the research that you would have to do in order to write the content yourself. That's what makes PLR so valuable as it can save you days or even weeks in research time.
