Some get confused when they see the initials ‘PLR’.  A couple definitions appear.  Search results will yield one definition as “Public Lending Right” as the right for authors to receive payment under PLR legislation in the UK for the loans of their books by public libraries and yet another definition as “Private Label Rights”.

This article is an introduction to PLR as Private Label Rights.

You may not have considered this before, but if you have ever purchased any kind of digital product on the web – software or an e-book, for example, then that product came with some kind of ‘rights’ attached to it when you did so. In other words, when you bought the product, you also bought the right to use it in some way.
The most common rights you would get are called ‘personal user’ rights with your purchase which means you can use it yourself, but you cannot sell it to someone else.
However, there are many products that you will buy online where you are given additional rights with your purchase.

Some products are packaged with Resell Rights, or RR, meaning that you can use the product yourself and/or resell it to others to have user rights. Then there are Products with Master Resell Rights (MRR) which give you the license not only to sell the product yourself, but also to pass on that right to sell the product to your customer too.

Finally you have products that come with Private Label Rights or PLR. This is content (most commonly articles, e-books, reports, or software) that can be used as is, or changed and modified entirely as the purchaser desires, in compliance with the product’s PLR license.So what in the world is ‘PLR articles’?  You guessed it.Articles that you are allowed to edit and use as you want and “label” them with your “private” authorship.

There are also some sub-categories under this PLR content ‘category’ that are defined by the exact ‘levels’ of private label rights that are permitted by the products’ license. For example, there are some PLR products that allow the purchaser to resell the product but they cannot claim authorship of it when they do so. Still others allow the user to modify it as they please, but are not allowed to sell the PLR rights to anyone.To obtain the right to resell the PLR with PLR rights, you would need to purchase the unrestricted PLR Resell RIghts. 

However, the vast majority of PLR products that you are likely to come across or buy come with unrestricted private label rights, meaning that you can essentially do whatever you want with them as the user, (but not necessarily have the right to resell the PLR.This is the kind of PLR product referred to in this article.

What can you do with Private Label Rights content?

With unrestricted PLR rights to a particular e-book, special report or article, you can:

  • Change the title of or headline above the product;
  • Modify the content by adding to it, changing it or cutting pieces out wherever and however you want;
  • Claim authorship or creation credits;
  • Use the finished product you create in any way you like – give it away, sell it from a sales page or a membership site etc;
  • Use it as website content materials, or in a newsletter;
  • Add your own affiliate links into the finished product;Claim Copyright to it.

From this it is clear that when you have unrestricted private label rights to your purchased product, you receive a whole range of various opportunities and possibilities.
Indeed, it would even be possible to just take the product that you have bought, add your name to it and then publish it ‘as is’ without doing any more to it than that.
This is never likely to be a smart move, however, as (unless you are the first person who has ever used this PLR content) somebody else has probably already done this before you.

Subscribers to the “PLR Buzz” newsletter will get new PLR site alerts as well as tips on making money with private label content.

So, the key to using PLR effectively is to change it enough to make it your own. Do that and utilizing PLR materials can be your key to huge online profits, and perhaps even more attractively, these will be profits that you should start to see very quickly!

I’ve been using private label right products in my own online business for awhile now. I do this because using PLR is one of the quickest ways of going from a empty piece of paper (or blank PC monitor) to profits for any online entrepreneur.
This book will show you exactly how to do this within 7 days or even less!

More Quality PLR = Less Wasted Time and Money

The first thing to say about private label right materials is that they are not all alike.
There is some superb PLR content out there in the marketplace, but there is also an awful lot of dross!

You might find that some online commentators or PLR experts suggest that the quality of the original PLR content is not relevant since you will have to significantly modify the materals anyhow.

I don’t agree with this for a couple fundamental reasons:

Firstly, the PLR materials that you use are the ‘foundations’ upon which you build your final content materials. If you start off with poor quality foundations, then it’s very unlikely that your finished products will be of a high quality either.

Secondly, I’ve found that many lower quality private label materials are often factually wrong, or seriously out of date. On quite a few occasions, I have seen such low quality materials quote ‘facts’ that were never anything of the sort, or statistics that are years out of date!

Therefore, the result would be that any product you made from such PLR materials would be flawed, and that will not help your business or reputation.

In particular, be aware that free PLR materials are generally being given away free for a reason. In all probability, the reason is that it is impossible to sell them because of their intrinsic lack of quality and the fact that they therefore have little or no value.

Of course this is a generalization, and it IS sometimes possible to obtain free PLR content that is worth having. In fact there is one very good free PLR source that I’ll mention later that definitely deserves consideration, but it’s probably the exception rather than the rule!

Generally, private label rights material is no different from most other things in life - you get what you pay for. The quality of your ‘foundation’ PLR materials does matter, of that you should be in no doubt. To quote an old phrase, ‘you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear’, so if you try to do so, you will waste much of your time and effort. And you only have 7 days to start making money, so time is not something that you have got a lot of just at this moment.

The difference between good quality and bad PLR content?

Well, in my experience, using good quality materials basically means that you need to do some rewriting and that is about it.

With low quality materials, on the other hand, you have to check each ‘fact’ for accuracy, or update old stats, or you need to practically rewrite the content from the very first word. And if you are using PLR on authority sites to satisfy search engines, you need to optimze them to utilize good keywords.

So, if the base PLR content that you are working with is poor, then you might as well have started from scratch and written the whole thing yourself!Yes, you just may have to work that much!  Much “free” plr is like this (not all), so if your time is important to you, it’s worth investing in only quality PLR.

I’ve bought thousands of dollars of PLR content over the years, and I’ve reviewed private label article memberships on my site.What articles are good for you depends on how you plan to use them.In my PLR reviews, I give much weight on not just the quality, but also on whether the original PLR authors did keyword research and used that to optimize them for search engines (SEO).  This saves me lots of time and gets my sites to rank higher in search engines faster when I post optimized PLR articles onto my site, or post articles for article marketing.

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By D. Palmer, PLR enthusiast and expert.
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