Most people looking to boost links to their website think that all articles need to be custom written by them and it needs to be totally original. With somewhere like Qondio, Ezine Articles, or Associated Content to name a few, the answer is 100% yes, those are premier properties to publish on and require totally new articles written by you. Something that is often not covered by most is the huge selection of PLR written articles available to jump start the writing process. The abbreviation PLR stands for private label rights, and the rights allow you to rewrite or republish them as you need to.
You can find PLR articles all over the net, some are offered for sale as a bundle, others you can get as a bonus for buying software or services, some you can get for free. Now, most of these will do you no good to just publish as is. They may have been utilized by thousands of other writers looking to get links to their site. Occasionally you get lucky and they have never been used. The ones that have very little use or never been used are great for rewriting andsubmission to an article directory.
What I usually do is to take the 2 sentences of the article and one at a time, paste them into Google and search, with quotes around the sentence so it has to be an exact match. If nothing comes up - Bingo! you now have something you can use with no rewriting, Google has no record of that article. Should a lot of results come back, you will need to make sure you do a good job of rewriting. If a lot of results come on the screen, pass on that article and find another. The best thing is to rewrite each sentence one by one so you have a totally unique article based off the PLR article. Even with a good rewrite, its much, much faster often to do this than to come up with an original article which must be researched. If that was the case, you probably would not need PLR articles.
Where the use of PLR articles is most handy, is in the creation of niche sites, such as fly fishing, composting, glass blowing or other topic which interests you, but you are by no means an expert or may know nothing about. Someone else has given you a jump start with an article which you can insert your link into and publish, whether it needs to be rewritten or not. These types of articles are usually best published to secondary article directory sites, such as those powered by article friendly or article directory scripts. Article Friendly is a widely distributed article directory script that many people have purchased to run an article directory on their websites, they are easy to open an account at, and when you publish its live most of the time right away.
You will want to have a variety of account names and many different AF sites using various emails so that your publication of articles is mixed up and it does not look like the same person is publishing all the same articles on the same general topic. In the beginning, it will take some time to get your accounts all set up to use, but if you want there are always other tools to help speed up the process. That topic goes beyond the topic of this article, but I will write about it another time.
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