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.

If you ask me what the MOST important element of a website is, I would say it’s the words.

• The words on your web pages or blog post (aka your content) help bring in free search engine traffic that you can convert into money (via product sales, Adsense clicks, affiliate sales, and so on)
• The words that other use to link to your site (aka the anchor text) greatly influences how high you rank in the search engines when people look for things related to what your site provides.
• The words that you use in your pages or posts affect what people think about your site or blog. This in turn affects whether or not they subscribe to your RSS feed, or subscribe to your newsletter, or link back to your site, and so on.
• Oh, yeah, and the keywords that you target on your site determines the quality and quantity of traffic that you get from the search engines.

So as you can see, words are probably the most important thing related to your website. Everything starts and stops with words, at least on today’s web.

It could be keyword research, it could be the words that make up your content, it could be the words that are present in your anchor texts, but the bottom line is that without proper words, you would be nowhere.

So with that said, if you want to make money with words, here is what you need to do, in a nutshell:

1. Do proper keyword research
2. Put more content on your web site, targeting your most profitable keywords
3. As much as possible, try to  influence the words used in the anchor text in links pointing to your website or blog

On this blog, we will only focus on the number 2 point above – putting more and more content on your website. And in particular, we will focus on using PLR material to create as much content as possible.