Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Is Free PLR a Reality?

By James T Maxwell

As a matter of fact there are PLR articles out there for free. It's sometimes hard for some people to consider anything they are getting free to be of any value. Many are of the opinion anything worthwhile can't be free. Keep reading to find out just how wrong this statement can actually be, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of using PLR products efficiently.

How Can PLR Articles be Free?

Free things are often given out in the marketing world as an incentive for people to buy more. Consider it a "product sample" so to speak.

Then again, others may offer free PLR to get more people to sign up for their email lists. Free PLR can even be given to get more traffic to their site.

Even though the PLR articles are "free," that doesn't mean the website owner doesn't get value by giving it away. They get a lot of traffic, which is why PLR can be given away for free.

The Benefits and Drawbacks of Free PLR

The obvious benefit of using free PLR is just that - it's free. You are receiving content you can use without having to pay for it.

On the other side of the coin however, is by using free PLR articles you are using the same information that hundreds of others have used as well. This could potentially cause a problem with Google. They may penalize you for using duplicate content. There is a way around this problem, so this will be covered in the next section.

Using Free PLR

When it comes to free PLR, you have a few options on how to use it. By not posting the free PLR publically, you can avoid the issues of duplicate content. An example is using the content in a newsletter sent out to your email list. This is permitted without any issues.

Avoid putting your free PLR into traditional web pages. This is what can lead to duplicate content issues. You can include it in a larger e-book with no problem, or you can give it away if it's included in a report as a PDF. You could even consider reading it and creating an audio PLR product.

Let's say you want to use the content from your free PLR content on your own web page. You can do this as long as your articles are unique, so the best thing to do is to have them rewritten.

The most important thing with rewriting articles is to make sure you go paragraph by paragraph, word by word and rewrite basically the whole article. If you can avoid having any four words sequence be the same, that's even better. Make sure the headline / title is completely different. If you follow these guidelines, you'll be safe from duplicate content penalty issues.

It's also possible you may find some real PLR prizes which haven't been in circulation that much. This is often possible with the smaller PLR sites, as their information is fresh and new in comparison to what you may find on the larger PLR sites.

Use Free PLR to Boost Your Business

As you can tell, there are many benefits and a few drawbacks to using free PLR. If you use it correctly, free PLR can really help out your business and save you a whole lot of time. Content creation is a very time consuming activity that most business owners would prefer to avoid completely. Using free PLR, you can.

Knowing why PLR is often given away for free: the good and bad points of free PLR and especially how to use it to make more money and wasting less time. - 21365

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