Private Label Rights articles are a great compromise between writing your own articles and publishing someone else’s articles. You can just write your name on the articles and you have content for your blog or website. You can even get articles for free or else very cheaply.

Of course there is a common problem that many people find with PLR articles: Duplicate Content.

Hundreds if not thousands of people will have the same articles that you have; only they will put their name on it. This means that many other people will see your articles and think of them as junk because your content is not unique and not original. This means that your PLR articles are useless, so you cannot use them for content on your website or blog.

But there is a way to solve this. Instead of just taking the PLR articles as they are and just posting them on your website or blog, you obviously need to alter them in some way so that they are unique and truly are your own content.

The easiest way to change them is known as “spinning” them. This means taking the article and changing the wording and some of the structure so that it is completely unique. Yes, it will have the exact same message as the original article, but it will be unique in the fact that it is worded differently than the thousands of other articles on the internet from the people who obtained the same article as you did.

This means that you will now have unique articles that you can post on your blog or website and people will see them and not view them as duplicate content.

Another thing you can do is while you are spinning your article you can remove parts that you do not agree with and add your own ideas into the article, making it even more unique.

I personally use an article spinner to spin my articles for me so I can save even more time, and you can use them as well. There are some free ones that you can find, although I have found them to be generally more difficult to use and not as effective.

But essentially you just need to remember that if you are using PLR content that you need to alter it so that it is not the same as thousands of others on the internet and you will not have the problem of duplicate content like many other people run into.

This is a guest post by Shawn Horwood. Shawn Horwood is an internet and affiliate marketer who has spent hundreds of hours determining which methods of internet and affiliate marketing actually work and which ones do not. Now he offers much of what he has learned for free, including information on choosing affiliate programs, generating traffic, website creation, search engine optimization and other topics related to affiliate marketing.

Here are several ways you can use PLR articles to make money.

1. Use PLR articles to create web pages
2. Post them to article directories
3. Use them to create Squidoo lenses
4. Post them on your blog
5. Post them as comments on other people’s blogs (especially those that don’t use rel=”nofollow” in their links, or those that you think will drive a lot of traffic to your site)
6. Use them to make posts in forums related to your niche
7. Use them to fill up your auto-responder series, or as content for your newsletter
8. Use them to compile or create reports or e-books that you can sell or give away, either as a standalone product or as a bonus with another product
9. Use them to create a membership site
10. Use them to create reports or e-books that you put inside the members area of your website (combine 8 and 9 above)
11. Use them to create audio reports or podcasts – just read the articles aloud and edit the resulting audio
12. Use them as idea joggers – to get ideas for topics you would like to write about, either in your blog or your web site
13. Use them to start sites in niches that you know nothing or almost nothing about
14. Use them for “bum marketing”
15. Use them to create offline newsletters (that your customers get in their mailbox)

Hope that gives you a few ideas. Enjoy!

PLR articles, or Private Label Rights articles are articles written by others that you can use on your website or blog as if it’s your own content.

You can change the content of the articles in any way, if you want. You can edit the opening paragraph, or add a new one. You can change the title of the articles. And best of all, you can put your own name as the author of the article.

A warning, though. Just because you obtain private label rights doesn’t mean you become the owner of the article. You don’t have any rights that haven’t explicitly been given by the seller to you.

For example, you may or may not be able to sell the article as part of a paid product or membership site. Similarly, you may or may not be able to provide PLR rights to the modified (or unmodified) article to others.

The creator of the article may have restrictions on the way you distribute and publish the PLR article. Also, obtaining PLR rights does not mean you also become the copyright holder. The author of the PLR article retains the copyright.

In each case, it’s best to stick to the rights that you have been explicitly provided. When in doubt, you can ask the provider of the PLR articles.

Disclaimer: I am not an attorney or a lawyer. Please do your own research to learn more about what rights you do or don’t have with PLR content.