Thank you

fouzer

betajewelry.com

I checked the box to receive followup comments, but never got them. I just surfed here out of curiousity and found that you’d all like to burn me at the stake! Wow!

I am of the opinion that we shall have to agree to disagree. I still believe that it is possible to rewrite something in one’s own words and I will go on believing that for as long as I can compare something I’ve rewritten and still manage to come up with less than 30% dup content.

Sorry we have to disagree, but I ask you… how many ways can you say the same thing without getting some fresh perspective, i.e., someone else’s viewpoint thru which to see the topic?

When I write something, using my terminology, my “voice,” not everyone “gets” it. But what if someone else rewrote my work in a manner that it then becomes understandable to my reader, the one who didn’t get my version? I don’t see anything wrong with this, and more people will be served by it.

Yes, I completely agree that there are some worthless PLR articles out there that no amount of rewriting can fix. And there will always be people looking for shortcuts. But I think it’s quite unfair of everyone to condemn the whole process as being useless.

But that’s just my opinion. :-)
~cj

CJ I thought you had a sense of humour (re: Cartoon caption), but if you keep this up I might have to re-think the SOH thing.

The only reason why authors get a lot of traffic and good backlinks from their submitted articles is because EZA rules keep the readers happy. If you want to submit PLR then you can do that in many other directories that don’t care. But you will see you don’t get a single reader nor a single click from there.

Gunter

I’m not a fan of PLR. Of course, that’s known because I interviewed Chris recently and probably about 5 minutes of the interview was concerning this topic.

Now, I can’t say I was ALWAYS against PLR. A couple of years ago I simply didn’t know. I keep my mind open until something either proves it has low value or has real value.

Of course, we must discriminate first and think to ourselves “Is this product/service even logical on the surface?” All humans screen first through our prior experience and knowledge.

And the concept of PLR itself is not illogical, admittedly. So I understand the appeal of it and why PLR sites were so popular a couple of years ago (and maybe some PLR memberships still are, I don’t know).

But I’ve never personally joined any, ever.

However, John, as to your comments above. Well, first, nobody can accuse you of not speaking your mind. :)

I think one of the primary problems with PLR is it biases the reader of the articles and makes any “real” re-write virtually impossible to accomplish.

If someone buys an original article pack on, say, acne, and the articles are beautifully written but 100 people also get the same articles from a PLR membership site, they are all biased when attempting to “re-write” the content.

How do I know this?

Well anyone who has ever been to college and had to write research papers knows that even when you are researching material, it’s sometimes difficult to put some of that material you’ve read in your own words.

Maybe you’ve read some catchy phrases and you like them and you try to “re-write” them but you just can’t seem to figure out how — and so it ends up sounding very similar to the other author’s work.

The result? A bunch of articles submitted to the article directories that sound the same, with no real unique voice, and certainly without what Chris Knight called “injecting your own DNA.”

Look, ultimately, this isn’t just a problem with article marketing. How many famous authors in recent years — even best-selling authors — have been busted later for having someone identify almost entire paragraphs in their book that was lifted from someone else’s book on the same topic.

Again, the human propensity for bias and the arduous task of undoing that bias once it’s there when writing.

So, that is a way of my expressing a dislike for PLR membership sites that I didn’t say on the interview with Chris because he wasn’t interviewing me. I was interviewing him.

Regards,
Dan Ho