Since the all the BIG paradigm-shifting Google algo shakedowns have passed, are you back to using any PLR (private label rights) content on your sites, videos, autoresponder series?

Is it safe again? What is safe? What’s NOT safe? 

Vertical industries in multiple cities, e.g., real estate agents? Or varied businesses in one smaller local market, e.g. local Akron businesses?

Feedback, ideas anyone?

Remember, in former freelance journalist terms, these would be roughly equivalent in terms of not being “original” to… what?… second serial or second resell rights or syndicated columns, etc., as opposed to original publication of “original” articles like first serial rights?

Now that “original” content is freely “curated” online, basically just rehashing others’ work over and over again (but legally), is there now a place for PLR in the mix again?

I agree with @kristi-hines, I used PLR to get some ideas or get the base for a longer book (for example using basics of Twitter for introduction and then adding my own stuff as the meat of the book). Hope this makes sense. 

I would not use it as it is though, I would probably use an article as an idea for a video or something like that, but you know those sites sell at least 200 of the same sets so it isn’t something to just put out there. 

@stu-builder I can vouch that that’s definitely happening, Stu. Not upset over it, but I did get dinged when I was hired to “rewrite” a psychological article that really intrigued me. I had a long and equally intriguing back and forth via email about the topic, too… mostly me picking this guy’s brain because what he had written was just fascinating.

The ideas and message was stellar, but grammatically speaking, he couldn’t write his way out of a hat. It was serious and tedious work. 

Then I turn in the work to the agency and I get dinged . What? On SME, I never go back to edit a typo or anything else these days. But I NEVER turn in editing work that is not 100% perfect. 

So then they tell me they ran it through Copyscape and it didn’t pass. OMG!!!! Frankly, after my initial shock and suppressed anger at this jerk who lied to me about his contribution (zero) to the paper, I was then kind of miffed at Copyscape because the writing was soooooo poor, I almost had to rewrite 8 words out of every 10 and know there was not ONE sentence that had NOT been heavily edited or rewritten totally.

Still, I learned my lesson. I don’t write for other people anymore, unless it’s something I’ve already written and am selling to them. But I will never trust another human to tell me the truth about what they’ve written. Sorry, but been burned like that too many times. And THAT was my LAST time.

I love PLR and can totally 100% rewrite, rethink, reword, and completely reown a set of thoughts on someone else’s paper and make it uniquely mine. Hey, this is what I taught my students… Editing is where ALL good writing comes from. Good stories, however, come from great storytellers, some of whom can actually write purty guud Anglish. But that’s why the best have the best editors… so their writing doesn’t get in the way of their storytelling.

OK… saying Amen now… lol…

Robin

Its all about quality now!! PLR I think is just poor quality. Create amazing things!! content that offers real value to your reader. 

I use plr articles on my blog all the time. I found a great source of well written “entry level” articles that I usually add some original content to or modify in some way to make them somewhat unique. I am more interested in providing quality content to my readers than what Google thinks. 

By using the plr for the intro articles, I can spend my time crafting original, more advanced content.