Using PLR Articles

Here are some some things I do with my PLR articles if I don't want to build a new site or blog for them but I do not want my PLR packs to go to waste when I receive them from one of the PLR membership sites I am signed up to.

* Summarize the articles and use them on Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo and Wetpaint. Open the article in Microsoft Word and go to Tools, Auto-summarize. On the option screen select "create a new document and put the summary there" and then select "summarize 50% of the document." Click go and you have a document with hopefully the major points included and all the filler removed. Read the article and add some of your own unique filler in between the major points. Do this every other day and post it to a Squidoo or similar site and use the page for link juice to one of your main sites. The whole process takes 5 minutes to do but will create a valuable link tool for you.

*Create a free resource to attract sign ups. With a PLR article pack of 40 articles you can create a great report to give away or even use the pack as a starting point to creating an ebook that you can then sell. If you get your PLR from Niche Content Packages you will find 2 choices of an ebook cover inside the article pack which is designed and supplied with the PLR articles for anyone who wants to use them to create an ebook rather than posting the articles to their sites and blogs. You can see the graphics they supply with their PLR articles here.

*Add another silo to an existing site or category to an existing blog. If you already have a blog or site on a related topic to your new article pack, just add to it. Building larger sites with lots of related subjects is now back in rather than having lots of small tight niches.

If you think about it I'm sure you can find plenty of other ways to use your PLR articles to your benefit. Of course if you are a new member to a PLR membership site like PLRPro then you will be wanting to create a new site with each of your article packs.

Once you have been with them for a while though you will start getting packs of PLR articles that tie in well with one of your already existing money making blogs so just expand rather than build new.

Rewriting PLR Articles To Make Them Unique

Most users of PLR realize that they need to rewrite PLR articles before posting them but the majority still use their PLR as it comes. By making a few changes though, they will find their blogs and sites perform much better than they do with the articles left untouched. Even changing around 30% of a PLR article will be enough to avoid the duplicate content penalty.

I'm going to show you how you can rewrite PLR articles at a rate that means you have no excuses not to do it. I'll also explain how I plan out the rewriting work and set out my schedule.

The first thing you will want to do is download my free software that will help increase the speed of rewriting PLR articles. The software is very simple to use and more or less self explanatory. Click on open and browse to your PLR article to open it so it is in the window on the right. You can then read the intro and write a new version in the top box on the left. Repeat with the body and the summary of the article and you are done. It is a lot quicker and easier than having 2 notepad files open at the same time.

If you manage a lot of sites and blogs, even with the speed you will gain by using your software to rewrite PLR articles, you won't want to be completely rewriting every article in a PLR article pack. In a pack of 40 I usually pick out 5 or so that will be my money earners and completely rewrite these by changing the intro, body and summary. With the other articles I paraphrase the intro and summary and then scan the body, changing the odd word or sentence. These will take you no longer than 10 minutes to start with but 5 minutes will be loads of time to rewrite PLR articles once you have been doing them a while and if the original quality is good.

You might think spending most of a day to rewrite PLR articles isn't time well spent but 40 articles only altered around 25% will have a much greater chance of getting listed and ranked in the search engines than 40 articles that are already on 50 other sites and blogs.

You can get your free software by clicking here ----> Free PLR Rewriter

Setting Up Your Money Making Blog

A money making blog was the last thing the original lot of bloggers were thinking about but make it they did. Nowadays we are told by the so called "guru's" that for a money making blog to be successful you would need to find an empty slot, or to use the marketing term "a niche." The idea seems to be you have to find a subject that has little competition and then dominate the competition by being the best and most prolific blog writer on your chosen subject. There are several new blogs created every single second, that's 100's of blogs a minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days week! Finding a niche with little competition, unless it is a brand new subject, is going to be near on impossible.

Quality has a habit of rising to the top and speaking from experience, I find my best performing blogs that are in congested niches are the ones that bring out my passion and that I have a good understanding about the subject. This gets visitors interacting by commenting and other web 2.0 activities such as bookmarking. These are all seen as votes for your blog and people interact only when they find a blog of quality.

A couple of $10 a day blogs is easily achievable and that equates to over $7K a year which isn't bad money for doing a couple of posts every day. Of course, as your blog grows and ages, so will your income from that blog and in time your traffic may reach a level where you can sell advertising. Keep your blog ticking over and you will reap the benefits in the future.