Tips for Newbies: Working with PLR Articles

For the past few weeks, we’ve been working on two “newbie sites” for people who have never had a website before.  Today, we’ll take a look at working with PLR articles.

What are PLR Articles?

“PLR” refers to “private label right.”  There are many PLR article sources available, from free ones to paid ones.  You may use PLR articles in whatever way you wish … for publication on your website or blog, for use in articles marketing, for publication in your ezine or to use in an ebook.

While you may put your own name to the PLR article content, there is one standard rule:

You need to change the article so it is unique.

The PLR services may have other rules, so you should read the terms.

Today’s Disclaimer.

In today’s example, I did not do any keyword research. I usually do some keyword research when using PLR articles, and recommend that you do so.

Today’s Example.

The PLR article that is being rewritten is being published on Laura’s brand new site about emotional eating disorders and weight loss.  I used a “raw” article from Mike Steup’s free 5-articles-a-day program.  If you haven’t signed up, you should.  You’ll be getting  a lot of content that you can work with.

Here is the original version of one of Mike’s free PLR articles which I thought would be a good fit for Laura’s site, which has to do with emotional eating.

You want to modify PLR articles so that they are uniquely yours.  A great source of information that you can plug into a PLR article is Google’s U.S. Government Search.  Since the tone of the original article seemed to be about obsessions with weight loss and the problems that this obsession can trigger, I thought I’d take a look at what the government has reported on the weight loss industry.

Over 67,900 government publications appeared.  The first link was really good, talking about the billions of dollars that Americans spend on weight loss programs.

Here’s a closer look at the article.  I decided to integrate the figures in the opening paragraphs into Laura’s article, and then basically copy and paste the FDA’s recommended dieting habits into the article.

Here’s a redline that shows what I’ve done.

What I did with the PLR articles was to:

1. Add information from the FDA;
2. Chop up the article and create subheadings so it’s easier to read; and
3. Change a few words around and correct the grammar errors.

You can see the entire redlined document that shows the changes I made to the original PLR article by downloading this PDF file.  A “cleaned up” PDF document is also available.  I corrected a few more typos, plugged in Laura’s affiliate links, and published the article, which you can see here in its final form.

Although the changes look extensive, the process took five minutes with some simple editing.  You don’t need to modify all of your PLR articles to this extent — some will come in pretty good form and just require a handful of changes.

Conclusion.

To keep your site fresh, you have to keep adding content.  You’ll find that PLR articles are an excellent way to constantly come up with new ideas and content.  Add in your affiliate product codes so that you can make money with these articles.

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