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Private Label Rights material can be a great way of getting content and products that you can call and sell as your own. It can also be a great way to spend good money on a load of rubbish.

As I see it, there are two main problems with most PLR material I come across:

1. The quality of the written content is poor. A lot of what’s produced is from the hands of cheap labour and this usually means it’s sourced from countries where English is not the primary language. It is possible to have a board vocabulary and a good grasp of English grammar, but often you need to be able to think in a westernised way before you can write content that reads like westernised content.
2. It’s already been distributed across the Internet so you can forget about it being original content in the eyes of search engines. It also means that it’s usually no good for submitting to article directories because someone else will have already beaten you to it.

Both of these problems result in the need for a further investment of either time or money or even both as rewriting the content to some degree is required before it can be used to benefit you.

Why do these issues exist?

As happens with many maturing markets, as demand increases for PLR products, the number of suppliers also increases. As the number of suppliers increase, people start thinking a step higher in the food chain, moving away from the end consumer and towards supplying the suppliers instead.

For the end user, this means instead of getting material that’s been produced by their supplier and supplied to a limited number of people, they’re getting material that’s being offered by any number of suppliers to even more end users. Therefore, the chances of someone else already using the same content increases greatly because instead of having one supplier selling 100 copies of an article pack you might have several suppliers each selling 100 copies of the same article pack.

If you’re publishing the same content as hundreds of other people, whether or not you believe in duplicate content penalties will be irrelevant because you’ll still be competing for all the same keywords as the other publishers.

For these reasons, I don’t believe you should consider the majority of PLR material on offer today as ready-to-use.

What do you think of using PLR? Do you use it yourself? Are you happy with the quality of the written content?

Domain names are one of the Internet’s underpinnings and not much would happen without them unless you had a thing about numbers. As you’re reading my blog, you’re probably the type of person who has a domain or two registered and has probably carried out a number of domain name searches in your time.

Imagine if every domain name you searched for was intercepted and then registered by someone else. You probably wouldn’t be too pleased would you. What if the people intercepting your domain name searches then offered you the opportunity to take over the domain for a fee? It’s all starting to sound a bit seedy isn’t it?

This is exactly what Network Solutions will do when you use their domain search service. They claim it’s to protect their customers from other people front running, but in fact the domains they secure are available for anyone to register as long as it’s through them.

Here’s one I cooked up earlier:

1) Check if some random domain name is available using Domain Name Pro - it is.

2) Check the domain name is available at Namecheap - it is.

3) Check if the domain name is available at Network Solutions - it is.

4) Then go back to Domain Name Pro and check again - whoops, someone’s registered it.

5) Go back to Namecheap and check again - yep, it’s totally gone.

If you’re looking for a new domain name, steer clear of Network Solutions!

You know how people are constantly getting sued over domain names that breach trademarks… I wonder if Network Solutions could land in hot water for ‘protecting’ a domain name containing the trademark of some huge corporation?

That would be such a shame to see.

It really would.