Have You Read Jason Potash's 900-Pound Report?
You may remember, Jason from Article Announcer fame and know that he's a guy that definitely knows content. He's written a very fresh and free report about using content in 2007.
Grab it here and let me know what you think.
Grab it here and let me know what you think.
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This explains what probably happened to two of my websites this week.
I would love to get my hands on his soon to be released product, but I am willing to bet it's way out of the price range of this WAHM.
Thanks for sharing this report with us Alice. I have learned a lot just from the report alone.
What I'm wondering is, if 30% of a private lable rights article has to be changed, if I'm not better off writing all my content myself. It wouldn't take me that much longer. What do you ladies think?
Carrie - I'm not sure I agree when people put numbers on something like that. It varies article by article, website page by website page. I focus less on a rewrite and instead on adding more content to the article, which is considerably easier.
And most importantly, I do my own keyword research, so I'm not competing with others using the same article. I think that's a very important key.
I did read the report last week and thought he had some good points. Especially the idea of submitting several different versions of the same article. I'm not sure if he mentioned it - but one of the reasons I like this is for the bio section. We don't want all our anchor text to be the same, so this makes sense.
Another good 'duplicate content' thing I read recently was by Randfish over at SEOmoz: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-illustrated-guide-to-duplicate-content-in-the-search-engines
Very interesting. You might want to check out
http://www.ArtemisPro.c It is a software tol that will auto-mix your articles during submission of your PLR articles. You can check it out further on the blog http://www.jamesbrausch.comom Do a search on Artemis Pro and that should get you all the blog discussions re Artemis Pro.
What are your thoughts on this new found information affecting affilites using articles to promote products?
Well, Nell. What is the purpose of the articles? It's to get people to get good information and then get interested in the product, right? I don't see this affecting that process.
One thing to remember is that Google or Yahoo or MSN aren't in charge of our businesses. They can certainly help them, but as an affiliate, posting reprint articles on my site isn't going to ruin my business. I can put those articles into an email or post them on my site, sending my subscribers, blog readers and forum members to read them. I might bundle the information in a free report or an ebook. I don't need search engines to get that content read.
As an affiliate manager, if I publish my articles, then I am likely to receive the greatest organic benefit when I publish them first. If don't publish them on my site, then that's not an issue at all.
As far as incoming links go, most affiliate links aren't direct links to your site and may not have any effect on link popularity. If the do go directly to your site, use different link text in your different articles. Or what what issue do you potentially see?
Nell, what is the problem you had with your sites? If they are being removed from the index, I don't think that duplicate content is a source of your problem. Unless, of course, you created sites that were exact copies of other sites...but I doubt you did that. :-) You are probably facing some other problem and it happens from time-to-time.
I have sites that are a mix of original, reprint and PLR content. I don't see those sites suffering at this time. Things go up, they go down and it all kind of evens out.
This was just what I needed to read today.
I do need to spend more time and effort on adding text into the PLR articles that I obtain. and really make them speak towards the keywords that I am going after.
To me (since I am not what I consider to be a good writer) it would be far less time consuming to copy a plr article into a word document, add some of my own words, sentences or a new closing or opening, switch up a few words using the Word Thesurus and be done with it.
Here's the question... when I do this and change it considerably - is it still a PLR or is it written by me?
Aurelia, that would depend on the terms of the PLR. Some allow you to claim authorship if you change them significantly and they will have their own definition of significantly.
Check the terms of use for the PLR you are using.
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