Duplicate Content and PLR Content.
June 3, 2008 by Select Affiliates
Filed under Blog, Niche Marketing, PLR Content
PLR Content – Expelling The Duplicate Content Myth Associated With PLR Content
If there’s one thing that scares an internet marketer more than anything else, it has to be the fear of having all their sites delisted because of duplicate content. But what if I said you had a better chance of being ‘eaten by a shark’ then you would of being picked up for violating this regulation set out by Google and the other search engines!
Expelling The Myth Once And For All
So when in the past has a site been delisted directly as a result of using PLR content? Very rarely I can tell you! In fact I haven’t met a single marketer who uses PLR content that has been caught violating the duplicate content rule. So what does this mean? It means that whatever you’ve been told about the connection between PLR content and the duplicate content rule is for want of another word completely ‘bogus’.
So What Is The Duplicate Content Rule?
The duplicate content rule affects those who copy a site, word for word, as well as mimicking the exact design and layout of the other site in question. Well of course they’re going to delist you if you do this! You may as well download someone else’s site and re-upload it to your own server under a different domain!
Using PLR content however on a completely unique looking site, won’t offend the search engines at all and why should it? Sure you may have some content on your site that is the same somewhere else, but you may also have some other unique content that will benefit the visitors to your site.
Rewriting PLR Content
I bet I know what you’re thinking. Your thinking “why has this guy been telling us this whole time that PLR content is completely safe and now he’s going to talk about rewriting!” Well the truth is there are more advantages to using unique content then there is for using just straight copied PLR content.
Think about it for a minute. Would the search engines be more likely to rank a page with unique content rather then a page that has the same content found elsewhere? Of course! Now you’re thinking “what’s the point in having PLR content then?” Well when we say rewrite that only means rewriting a fraction of the PLR content you have available. 25% would be a good amount to aim for, which should take you barely any time at all. This insures your pages are going to be looked at by the search engines as being unique content, which will more than likely boost their rankings up higher than those articles copied word for word.








This isn’t totally on topic, but I found out today why one of our site’s was losing its page 1 rankigs. We owned two domains one of our name and the other our name with dashes.
The host company had a redirect going in a httaccess file. Something happened in a server update and unknown to me somehow the redirected domain was not and was pulling the exact content of the other one.
I was livid with my host for having it on their server so that it could duplicate so easy. Keep an eye on your server, you can dupe yourself!
Duplicate content and using PLR articles is such a contentious topic
Some webmasters swear blind that duplicate content will not hurt your rankings
I myself am of the opinion that UNIQUE content is what the search engines want.
But if you have a thousand page website it is difficult to generate your own content. I suppose this is where modified PLR articles would be useful