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. One aspect often overlooked is the huge variety or PLR articles available to jump start your writing. PLR stands for private label rights, and they allow you to republish them as you see fit and require no acknowledgement to the original author.
Sources of PLR are all over the internet – some you can buy, some you can download, and some are given away as a bonus for other software you might purchase. Most of these PLR articles will not really be of any use to publish as is. They might have been used hundreds, or even thousands of times by other marketers. Sometimes, 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 an article that can be used with no re-writing should you choose as the search engine does not have a record of its use. Should a lot of results come back, you will need to make sure you do a good job of rewriting. If too many come up, do not use that article and move on. I usually rewrite sentence by sentence so I have a totally new article, but it closely resembles the old article in topic and flow. 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 result, most people would have no need for using 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. Another writer has allowed you a jump ahead with an article that you can then put your links into and publish, whether it needs rewriting 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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