Sunday, April 19th, 2009

How You Can Become THE Trusted Authority in Your Niche

There’s a secret that frames you as THE expert in your niche so the media begs you to be on their TV and radio shows…

It’s the same secret to building a website that can get your prospects to come to YOU so all you have to do is open the door…

And this secret is a whole lot simpler than you think. Once you have it figured out, though, success is yours for the taking.

I’m sure you’ve seen it before: PLR content.

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PLR content means different things to different people. But overall, it refers to content that you are given rights to use by the original author. You can add your name as the author, change it, add to it, sell it and sometimes even give it away (be sure to always check the rights for any PLR content you’re thinking about using).

What you cannot usually do with PLR content is let someone else have PLR rights to it. In other words, you cannot give someone else the ability to use the content as their own.

If you’ve never used PLR content before, you may be wondering what is so special about it. After all, you could write the content yourself and not pay anything. Or hire a ghostwriter and have exclusive access to the content.

While both of these statements are true, it’s important to remember that everything in business is a trade off. Especially when your business is young.

For every hour that you spend writing your own content, that is one less hour that you are working on marketing your business. Too many online marketers spend almost all of their day writing and never work on driving traffic to their sites.

Or they hire ghostwriters and go into debt to have content written. As a result they have nothing left to run paid ad campaigns and have to rely on only free methods, which often means a much slower growth rate for their business.

Good PLR content gives online marketers the best of both worlds. Content that they don’t have to write but still is semi-exclusive.

However, I’m sure you’ve seen it before: horribly written PLR content that were written by someone whose first language is not English and are difficult to read.

Even though they might pull in search engine traffic, human who reads these types of articles will hit the back button fast.

Worse yet, sometimes you run into PLR content that is beautifully written – but you can’t use it. The problem is that when you run it through CopyScape.com, you find out that they’re plagiarized. That opens you up to copyright infringement and intellectual property lawsuits.

But does that mean you wasted your money buying these PLR content (articles) and you can’t use them any more? Not necessarily. You see, if the articles are well researched and the content is good, then you can use them as the basis for your own research to write completely new articles.

Think about it: researching your article usually takes more time than writing it and if you already have a well-researched article in front of you, you can rewrite part of it to and create a completely original (yet factual) article.

In other words, don’t despair the next time you buy dirt-cheap poor quality PLR content, just consider the money as well-spent since it reduces your research time.

However, there is a right way and a wrong way to use PLR products. Honestly, much of it really stinks.

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