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Private Label Rights and Duplicate Content

With all the talk about duplicate content, many people are bashing Private Label Rights (PLR) content. I won’t get into the actual duplicate content part since I’m sure you’ve already heard enough about it. I’m actually getting a bit sick of it myself!

I got into a heated discussion once in a forum about using PLR content. Someone had asked for ways to beef up their website with content without writing it themselves. I suggested using PLR articles, and someone else proceeded to rip me a new one for the remainder of the thread because he didn’t believe in using PLR sites.

I personally don’t think that someone should take the content and build an entire website or blog from it, and it’s my opinion that each piece of content should be altered at least somewhat, whether you’re worried about duplicate content or not. But I think that if used properly, PLR content can greatly enhance your online business.

I’ve been using the PLR content from All Private Label Content since August of 2006 and I will continue to use it as long as they have their doors open. Not only does it provide quality content that fits my target audience perfectly, but it also inspires some great ideas to write even more articles myself. As a bonus, they also give you tons of information on how to use your PLR content along with search engine optimization (SEO) guides, and a list of ways to monetize your content.

So, if you’ve been hesitating about using PLR content out of fear of the big bad duplicate content penalty, then fear no more. Once you’ve read the guides that All Private Label Content provides, you’ll have plenty of ways to give your readers quality information and avoid any penalties while doing it.

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Increase Sales and Traffic with this tried-and-true marketing method

You know when you finish reading a book and there is usually a short snippet of another book at the end, generally from the same author? For example, awhile ago I was reading a book by Tami Hoag (she’s a suspense writer) and after finishing the book I read the ’sneak preview’ for her next book. Naturally, I ran out as soon as I could to get it.

This marketing method has been around for ages, but I haven’t seen it used very much on the internet, and I have to wonder why because it obviously works great!

I bet you could get a leg up on your competitors if you applied this method to your own products. If you have more than one product you sell online, you can use this as a way to cross promote them. It doesn’t even have to be a product you sell, it could be a mini-course you’re offering, or another website you want to advertise.

Let’s say you have a website about crocheting. You already have one product that you sell to your readers that teaches them how to crochet. Now, you’ve just finished another ebook that includes crochet patterns. Why not include a couple patterns at the end of your first ebook to entice readers to buy the second one?

Here’s another example. You have a website targeted to affiliate marketers. You publish information regularly that brings in some decent traffic. You’ve just created a mini-course that will be very valuable to your readers, and you should score some affiliate sales from it as well. Why not take a few key ideas from your mini-course and give your current readers a sneak peak to entice them to sign up for it?

The trick is to give them something valuable, but just enough that leaves them wanting more. If you can’t give them something they’ll benefit from, then you should think about recreating your whole product so that it does. Fluff and hype just doesn’t cut it anymore (and it never should have). So take a page from the ‘real world’ of marketing and apply it to your own online business.

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