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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?

It’s meme time!

Jon Lee has tagged me on another meme that’s currently doing the rounds. The aim of this one is to help fellow bloggers by increasing exposure to their blogs whilst trying to avoid the icy glare of Google by ensuring links in the train use the nofollow attribute.

The 4-hour Work Week is a book that’s up for grabs by any participants.

To get involved, just see the rule section below.

***** Start Here ******

Prize

1. Free 4-Hour Workweek Book.
2. A chance to have a permanent link on front page of Blogging The Movie dot com.
3. Sign the Records Book as it travels to 10 different winners.

Contest

This contest is sponsored by BloggingTheMovie – A featured documentary about Bloggers. This contest contains no-follow links. So it is Google friendly and by creating an original introduction you won’t be dinged for duplicate content. This is an ongoing marketing campaign. There will be 10 winners at which each winner will be able to host their own contest which will be sponsored by Blogging The Movie. 1st Winner: Susan Suarez | 2nd Winner: Investing Adventures | 3rd Winner: Can be you!

Rules

1. Write an original short snippet introduction to avoid duplicate content.
2. Just copy the section between the start and end.
3. Add your 3 favorite blogs with rel=”nofollow” in the link on the code page.
   

   <a href=”http://url.com/” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>URL.com</a>

   This is extremely important to ensure that Google won’t ding us. Make sure you contact the bloggers and insist they participate so they can keep this going.

4. Email your URL of your blog post to Free4hourWorkweek@gmail.com[Deadline: 12/31/07 ]

Favourite Blogs

Betshopboy | DerekSemmler | Enkay Blog | MsDanielle | JimiMorrisonsHead | Siteguide.us | Darin.cc | JonLee.ca | Samanathon | MrGaryLee | KellyCho | SusanSuarez | RobertaFerguson | Bloggrrl | TheKingKongBlog | TheBeefJerkyBlog | LifeisColourful | MarketingDeviant | MaleWail | RomanDock | 40hourstogo | TylerCruz | JonathanVolk | Egonitron | SuncoastScribe | Gnaka | WorldOfAngel | MyBlogContest | TheGeekBoys | JoyceBabu | JakelDaily | Internet Marketing Fool | Thatedeguy | PimpMyPageRank | AIS by Sarah | Add your 3 Favorite Blogs here (it is important that you change the link to rel=”nofollow”)

If you were not tagged, you can still copy the list and add yourself on. No worries, it’s a win-win for everyone. So lets get ready. Get on the list to become the 3rd winner on the Train Contest

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There are still those who don’t believe in any such thing as a duplicate content penalty, but when your webpages have been hidden under the blanket of supplemental results and your competitors pages are showing instead it’s difficult to understand the arguments of the non-believers.

So who else is better to tell you about how the horse kicks than the horse itself?

Discover how Google deals with duplicate content. This is a very informative and much recommended read!

Technorati Tags: Duplicate Content Penalty

Just posted, my review of a new article spinning tool, Content Spooler.

Technorati Tags: Content Spooler, Software Review, Article Spinner, Duplicate Content Penalty

Content Spooler is a PHP-based, content spinning tool. The problem that content spinning solves is that any content you create has only a limited usefulness e.g. you write an original article, submit it to several article directories and eventually, your article appears on hundreds of different websites. Great for SEO, you might think, but duplicate content detection will see it’s the same content on each website and take that into consideration when evaluating any possible ranking benefit you might gain.

To get past this kind of duplicate content penalty, you could rewrite your article into several variants and then submit each one to a different article directory. Problem solved, you might think, but whilst all that effort rewriting might not bother you in the short term, after you’ve reworked a dozen or more articles this approach might not seem so appealing.

This is where content spinning steps in to maximise the usefulness of content by creating multiple versions with enough differences to get past duplicate content detection measures, but with minimal effort. By automating the process of mixing up and recombining content, you take away the hard slog and the possibility of any missed or duplicated combinations.

Installion and usage

Content Spooler needs to be run in a PHP environment so typically you’ll be uploading it to a web hosting account. I tested my copy on a local installation of Apache and PHP. The CSS in Step 2 of Content Spooler didn’t seem to like Internet Explorer 6 so I switched to Firefox instead.

Unlike other similar tools that rely on synonym swapping to make content unique, Content Spooler allows you to compose variations inline. This does mean you have to supply the variations of content yourself rather than relying on a thesaurus, but it’s a relatively painless affair and the resultant content will read much more naturally.

As part of the package, you’re supplied with both an installation video and user guide video. Both videos only last a few minutes, but that just reflects on how easy the software is to use.

Once I’d installed Content Spooler, which was simply a case of copying the files into my webserver’s file structure (uploading to a hosting account would be almost as easy), creating my first batch of 100 articles took no more than about 15 minutes (see the bottom of the review to download the generated articles). I could have created more or less variations just by specifiying the desired quantity. Output filenames can also be specified to a point, but what I’d like to see is the ability to spin the filenames too and also be able to output other file extensions such as .html rather than just .txt.

When you input content into the software, you specify the parts you want to be spun by using curly brackets and the pipe symbol. Creating two variations of a word is as simple as inputting {fantastic|fabulous}. The same technique can be used to specify variations on entire sentences or even paragraphs.

With inputs for author name, titles, a content body, resource boxes and categories, Content Spooler is primarily geared towards article spinning and it does very well.

I tested the standard version of Content Spooler, which only produces the spun output as individually enumerated text files. There are more sophisticated versions that make use of the categories you specify as part of the automated submission process, but I was unable to test this as I’ve neither the relevant version of Content Spooler nor the Article Post Robot submitted that’s suggested.

A nice feature is that after you complete the spinning of a particular project, the pre-spun content is saved as a template that you can return to at some point in the future. The uncluttered design of the software’s interface and handily located help information makes it very easy to use.

Personally, I see no reason why Content Spooler has to remain as a server script as it doesn’t need any Internet connectivity in order to function. To make it even easier to install for Windows users, the script could be packaged up as a desktop application.

Conclusion

As a simple 3-step process, if you have a need to produce variations of your articles then Content Spooler is a steal at any price under $50 so my suggestion is to grab a copy now. For a limited time, you can purchase a copy of Content Spooler at a discounted price of $15 as a Warrior Special Offer directly from http://www.contentspooler.com.

Update 23/12/2006

Content Spooler is no longer available at the special introductory WSO price of $15.

Screenshots

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Step 3

Download Test Output Articles

Download the output I created in my 15-minute test.