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Owen Jones

How PLR Can Be Useful for Authors

PLR can be very useful to authors, because they are such good writers. That may sound rather odd, but sometimes you just want to put content on a site without having to do all the leg work. If you can trust the source of your PLR, this gives authors a golden opportunity to just download some PLR, adjust it to suit the circumstances and up load it to the web.

How difficult can that be for a writer?

The PLR on this web site comes in niche packages of 15+ 500-word articles which have hardly been used anywhere else. In fact, some have never been used anywhere else. That is not the point though, before PLR is put on a decent web site, it should be re-written as a matter of course, so that it is stamped with the site-owner's personality and becomes unique.

How would an author of novels use PLR?

Every book has a theme and a genre, so an author exploring the use of PLR could select the niche pack that most closely resembles the content of the book / novel in question, and 'bend' the content to provide backup material for the book. These articles can be posted to the book's web site and / or to article directories in order to garner backlinks to the author's or book's web site.

This strategy allows the writer to spend more time writing creatively and less time writing background, which is a necessity for unknown writers these days. Nowadays, it is no longer good enough to have written a book. If no-one has ever heard of you, you have to create a 'buzz'.

One, and arguably the best, way of creating a buzz, is to write 'around' the subject matter of the book in question. An example: I have three books based on Lek, a bar girl in Pattaya, Thailand, so I have written articles on her youth, her village, Pattaya and Thailand.

If your main character is a cotton mill worker, you could write articles on the cotton industry, cotton slavery, northern England, the southern states, looms etc, etc. Anything of interest that will get people thinking about the subject of your book.

When you publish these articles off your own site, you add a by-line with at least one link back to your book's site or where it can be bought. Good articles will be picked up by other web masters looking for useful content and your piece may be seen by thousand - which means that the link to your book will be too.

It all depends on how much time you have and whether you can see the importance of what I am saying.

Good luck with your book or project.

Regards,

Owen

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Podcast: PLR Can Be Useful for Authors

Crater's Edge

Crater's Edge

by Lucy Andrews

Review by Barry Boy

Crater's Edge is a well-edited novel written in the third person in the genre of futuristic, off-world, fantasy or science-fiction.

The main protagonist is Kalen Trinner, an experienced mining engineer-cum-troubleshooter, who is sent to a mine at Area 20, which is in Three Craters on a planet called Taidor, where they have been experiencing unusual phenomena, such as an abnormal number of cases of sickness among the miners and malfunctions in the plant and equipment.

Futuristic

In the time of this story at Crater's Edge, mankind has still not managed to control the birth rate, but they have come up with an ingenious method to adapt to it. They have the population living in shifts! That is, people have their own homes, but they share the streets, amenities and even their jobs. There are two such shifts called (time) Zones - Unity and Early.

These two Zones are strictly segregated and the people from each are prohibited from meeting each other, which means that all public places have to be cleared at the end of each shift. Presumably, because of this, each Zone develops a distinct character, feel, or way of behaving.

The only point of contact is through the notes that the person doing your job in the other Zone - called one's Duplicate - leaves at the end of the day. In this way, plant, offices and businesses are kept running twenty-four hours a day.

Crater's Edge portrays a unique answer to the problems of overcrowding that reminds me of some of the situations that the crew of the Star Ship Enterprise encountered during their voyages. Weird, outlandish solutions that don't quite work, which allows us, from our present-day, Earthly perspective to wonder how those other-planetary leaders came up with them!

I thoroughly enjoyed Crater's Edge by Lucy Andrews. I enjoyed Miss Andrews' unique storyline and the well-drawn characters and locations. I also thought that there was the right amount of detail concerning the mining operations themselves. If I have a criticism, it is personal and small - I thought that the cliff-hanger ending was a little abrupt.

However, the cover and the title also match the storyline of Crater's Edge, so I have no hesitation in giving Lucy  Andrews five out of five stars for her novel Crater's Edge.

Well done!

You can find a unique interview with this author on this blog by clicking her name: Lucy Andrews .

and purchase Crater's Edge here too!.

Podcast: Crater's Edge

Uses for PLR by Owen Jones

Uses for PLR Articles

Maybe you are not sure what Private Label Rights Articles, commonly called PLR, are, so let's ensure that we are talking about the same thing here. Private Label Rights Articles are articles that you hold the right to publish as your own, but which were written by someone else.

The right to use the private label rights articles as your own may have been conferred on you as a gift or, more commonly, because you paid for them. There are two main points that affects the value of, and so, the uses for PLR:

1] the quality of the private label rights articles and

2] how many times they have been used.

In turn, the quality of the private label rights articles is affected by the style and quality of the writing; spelling; research; etc ..  PLR is often sold to many webmasters. If the PLR that you possess has been sold to only a few people, all well and good, but if thousands of people have used it, well, Google is not going to take much notice of your copy.

This situation does not restrict the uses for PLR, since it has a simple solution. Just rewrite the PLR articles in your own style. Why buy an article, if you are going to have to rewrite it?

You may ask, but, if you trust its author, then the research will already have been done and it is considerably easier for most people to rewrite than to write an original piece.

Not only that, but if English is not your mother language, it is far simpler to change words, but keep the grammar than it is to write the whole thing from scratch. This is one of the best uses for PLR.

Other uses of PLR is in newsletters and autoresponders, where you don't care what Google thinks, because it has no access to these mailings. For example, if you had a lit of subscribers who are interested in dogs, you could buy a few articles on dogs from a PLR writer and programme them to be sent out when you are on holiday or otherwise too busy to write articles of your own.

A pack of 15 articles would effectively give you 15 weeks off work, which is quite a lot, I am sure you will agree. It helps enormously if the writer of the PLR organises the articles into tight niche subjects.

One of the great uses for PLR is getting a web site up quickly. For example, if you wanted to have a web site selling St Valentine's Day Gifts, but you had left if a little late (or could not write the content for yourself for the reasons given above), you could buy a pack of PLR on, say, romantic gifts, use five articles to create a nice little five-page web site, put five in an autoresponder for subscribers and place five on article directories with links back to your new site.

How long would it take to set that up? Half-a-day? A whole day? Well, that's not bad, is it? To have a whole web site, an autoresponder loaded with messages and articles getting you attention and backlinks in a day!

Of course, I would always recommend rewriting PLR, even if only a little, just to put your own slant on it, but when you can get a dozen or more good 500-600 word PLR articles for less that $10, what have you got to lose?

Start thinking of uses for PLR in your business today and save yourself some time.

If you are looking for well-written PLR on niche subjects, Megan Publishing Services recommends The Niche PLR Collection, where you can choose from over 125 niche packs of 15 or more articles of 500-600 words each.

Podcast: Uses for PLR

Holidays for Webmasters

Holidays for Webmasters Exclusive!

$7.99 for Two Weeks or More!

As the owner of every business knows, it's difficult to get away on a decent holiday, because it's hard to find someone who will devote as much time and attention to your business as you would. This is usually a very real problem in the world of bricks and mortar, but at least webmasters can take their computer anywhere in the world and work just as effectively from there.

The thing is, does your family want to see you, or even do you want to be, poring over your computer when you are supposed to be enjoying your holiday with your friends or family?

No, of course not!

However, as all good webmasters with an eye on the website's Google Page Rank know, if you don't keep up a campaign with a steady flow of high-quality relevant content, your PR will slip and that would be a disaster, wouldn't it?

Months, or even years or hard work writing content to get your website on Google page one, only to come back from a fortnight's holiday and find it on page ten - buried in the wilderness.

Well, now I have a solution for you, webmasters - you may go on your holiday and not lift a finger in content-typing and all for the measly sum of $7.99 for fifteen days!

Surely that makes it one of the cheapest holidays you could ever get?

This is how it works. If you need fresh content to maintain a current campaign for your online publication, say, blog, website or newsletter, you need one of my niche PLR ebooks, which contain on average fifteen, five-to-six hundred-word, laser-targeted, keyword-rich articles.

Then all you have to do is spend a few minutes before you go changing some of the wording in each one to make them your own  and either have someone upload them for you one a day or set it up to work automatically - some systems allow the phased release of articles - or at worst, you could spend five minutes updating your website with them yourself every day - while you're checking your sales and Page Rank.

Now don't tell me you won't be doing that at least once a day!

So there you have it, complete rest for webmasters for only $7.99 for two weeks or more - what a bargain!

To peruse the ninety-nine PLR ebooks for your keywords and phrases, and start planning your well-deserved holiday, please go here: PLR ebooks

NB: PLR eBooks sold on Amazon for your complete peace of mind :-)

All the best,

Owen

Podcast: Holidays for Webmasters Exclusive!

Building a Website Using PLR

Building a Website Using PLR

For the purpose of this article, I am going to assume that you are a complete novice at building websites, if you are not, there are other articles on building blogs and websites elsewhere on this site. This short article though will teach you the basics of how to make money online with a website by building a website using PLR.

When I first started building a website using PLR., I would build my website offline, then go looking for a domain name, but things have altered for beginners now, and it is better to start elsewhere in the creation process.

First you will need to check out the content available, so you can choose a name and a theme for your website. Select  a theme for your site from the Private Label Rights (PLR) packages here: PLR content and buy one that takes your interest. These packages contain fifteen articles and are themed around a concept. That costs $7.99

Second, you will need somewhere to store your website, somewhere where visitors can find it by typing its name. There are thousands of website hosts. Look for a package that costs about $5 per month - it-s all you need to host dozens of websites.

Then, think about a name for your site and purchase it (you can do this at Hostgator too). That costs less than $10

Now you have all the raw materials for your website. So, next, you decide whether you want a traditional static website, ie one where the information remains on pages, or a blog, where the front page can change frequently automatically and other people can interact with comments.

Whichever you choose, you have already paid for it, so you just have to either choose a template (free from Hostgator) and activate it in their SiteBuilder app, or activate Wordpress (also free) and choose a blog theme that suits your content.

Now, you also have the framework for your Internet site.

Next, choose an article from the pack, rewrite it to make it original, sign it and publish it to your site. Do this as a page in Wordpress rather than as a post, then do it four more times.

Now you have a decent five-page niche site of quality, original articles. At this point, you should look for something for visitors to spend their money on, so search for affiliate deals in your niche and add the banners (or whatever) as the company directs you too.

Now you are ready for visitors or traffic, in the parlance. You can do this by rewriting one of the other ten articles and posting it to article directories with a link back to your home page and the most relevant of the other pages in the 'Author Bio', which is called deep-linking (it impresses the search engines, which should give your site better visibility in the search results.

If you are using Wordpress for building a website using PLR, you can also post this piece to your blog as a post NOT a page. Use tags and hyper-links to associate it with one of your pages.

Some people say to leave time between posts, but I don't know. I used to just crack on with it, but I suppose it depends whether this is a hobby, a sideline, a project or a business. For me it was the latter.

The greatest benefit of using PLR in this way, is that the content is there for you. You need do no research, just rewrite it in your own words. This saves time, and is a godsend to students of English as a foreign language and TEFOL/TESOL teachers.

If there are any terms here you don't understand about building a website using PLR, just ask in a comment below, or do a search - they are quite standard.

So, first go here and look around

PLR Articles for Sale

PLR Articles for Sale

For the savvy webmaster who has publications in these fields, I am taking down about 125 websites and offering the targeted PLR articles  for sale. Why am I disposing of the websites, you might be wondering?

Well, in another job, I had more than 140 of them, all making money, but I have been writing novels for the last four years, and a website that is not regularly updated is a dead website, as far as Google is concerned.

Google will demote such websites, so no-one will ever see them, in which case, they become worthless, but still cost $10 p.a. each to register. At the end of the day, it’s just not worth holding on to them at a cost of $850 a year or their content, which is, however, still valuable. It is this valuable, unique, niche, targeted content that I am offering to you.

I just don't have time to write novels and maintain these websites to the standard that Google requires, so, the world's loss is your gain.

I took my sites down on August 20th, 2015, so this content is still unused, if you get in first, it will be unique to your online publication (website, newsletter, or blog).

Please realise what I’m saying here, this material has never been sold before!

I have all sorts of PLR articles for sale ranging from hair care to cancer and yellowing teeth to cars and holidays! Books, writing, fashion, smoking, marketing... all sorts, go and have a look :-) It's a bit like a car boot sale in there, but as the old saying goes: "Seek and ye shall find!"

If you are unsure how you can take advantage of these ebooks of niche content, check out the links above in the header to 'Uses for PLR'.

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All the best,

Owen

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Podcast: PLR Articles for Sale

Megan's Visitors' Stats

Megan's Visitors' Stats!

This post is meant for all those who have advertised on this blog (MPS) and all those who are thinking about it! I want to give you an update on the site's visitors' stats.

The last time that I published site stats, it was a month or so ago and I was talking about 5,000 page-views a day...

Well, listen to this! Over the last six days, five days produced well over 7,000 page-views a day, and the other day was 6,968!

5,000 page-reads a day is not small fry, but 7,000-7,500 is fantastic!

This is AMAZING! But there are also new podcast listeners too!

So, book your advert and get in now before the rush, which is bound to happen with such stats - because advertisers current and previous are now getting 50% more value for money than they were last month

So, click the following link, read the deal and book your slot now, because prices may have to rise if demand outstrips the amount of time I have to do this work!

(Yes, I still do it all alone).

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PLR Articles and The Self-Employed

PLR Articles and The Self-Employed

In this piece on PLR articles and the self-employed, we will choose a specific trades-person, say a carpenter, but the same principles apply equally well to any other self-employed tradesman or professional, such as computer engineer, lawyer and even dentist.

The basic concept is to use PLR articles that you have bought, possibly had written and use them in your advertising campaigns. If you have the time, you could write your own articles, but then, technically, you would not be using PLR in your advertising campaigns.

So, you need to find a reputable source of material. This can be difficult, so build a relationship with a writer who is prepared to do the necessary research and buy from him or her regularly. The best way of getting what you want is to suggest the titles yourself.

Go for a pack of fifteen, 500-word articles at a time because this will give your article marketing campaign a real punch and fifteen PLR articles are enough to do several other things with too which we will go into below. The articles should be useful, informative, but at 500 words, they will only give tantalising tastes of the subject matter.

The job of these PLR articles is to show that you know what you are talking about, not to teach the reader your professional skills! They should have the same tone as your web site and newsletter or blog, be that humorous or serious.

A carpenter can write on apprenticeship, tools, aspects of reading drawings, working on site, health and safety, customer relations, working in people's homes, cleanliness, sharpening a chisel or saw, the different weights of hammers - there are dozens of topics for the self-emloyed, whatever jobs, trades or professions they have.

If you already have a web site, you can trickle-feed these articles into it at the rate of one a week. When they have been indexed by Google, say six weeks later, you can copy them to article databases with links back to your own web site in the author bio at the bottom, which will give you one-way backlinks to boost your sites rank.

If you do not have a web site, use five articles to create one. Add the articles to your newsletter too, because readers of that will probably very rarely go to your site, if they ever do - they don't need to, do they?

The final stage is to create an ebook from the same PLR articles in order to reach a totally new audience again. You will have enough material for an ebook of about 8,000 words, so if you would prefer a longer book, get another batch of articles and when you have used them on your site and in your newsletter, you can add them to your book to raise it to 15-16,000 words, which you can sell on Amazon for $7-$10

You will soon recoup your outlay on the PLR articles from the sale of the books alone and you will be the author of a book on your chosen self-employed profession. You could publish one or two books a year and build yourself a worldwide reputation.

by +Owen Jones

If you are looking for well-written PLR articles on niche subjects, Megan Publishing Services recommends The Niche PLR Collection, where you can choose from over 100 niche packs of 15 or more articles of 500-600 words each.

Podcast: PLR Articles and The Self-Employed

Children's Uses For the Internet and PLR Articles

Children's Uses For the Internet and PLR Articles

Would you like your children to be one step ahead of the other kids in their class? And even one or more steps in front of most adults in the country? They are enviable and lofty ideal, but they are also achievable, and the earlier you start, the further ahead they will be in both fields. If you are wondering what the catch is, I do not necessarily stand to make any money out of your achieving your goals at all. Read on and find out about children's uses for the Internet and  PLR articles.

We all know that kids from rich families have a better start because of their advantage in education when at school and extra money when they want to enter the employment stakes, well, you can give your children similar advantages, even though you might be hard-up at the moment. This is because the technique that I will outline free of charge involves effort and pennies, rather than a bulging bank account.

The Internet is providing more income to more people every year than was ever predicted, and my scheme involves you and your children riding that gravy train for profit and, ultimately, financial security for your children. Here we go:

1) Find out from your children what their main interest is. It needs to be quite specific, for example, not just cars, or sports cars, but Mercedes Sports Cars. But it could also be Superman Comics, Miss Kitty, Fruit-flavoured Ice Cream, MUFC, Ladybirds, Copperhead Snakes, Knitting, Diabetes, Skiing ... Do you get the idea? COST = ZERO

2) Think of a website title that best conveys that theme and check that it hasn't already been taken by a like-minded investor. (You do this by searching online for a website host and following their instructions). When you have found a host, check their costs and term and conditions. Some will give you your first website free for a year as an enticement. Sign up with the company and register your website (domain) name. COST = $5 pm for hosting and $10 pa for the domain name

3) The host will provide you with a free blog in your chosen name. You are set to start. COST = ZERO

4) Write a 300-500 word article on the subject of your blog and post it. Repeat this step regularly (once a week, fortnight, month. Keep most of the articles strictly on your niche topic, but you can post a few that are broader in scope to attract a wider interest group. COST = ZERO

What are reasonable returns? Sites produce more as they mature (six months) and have more content to offer visitors, so let's be cautious. Let's say you will earn $10 pm for the first six months and $50 pm thereafter, which makes $350 in year one and $600 pa thereafter.

OK, not bad, but not great, eh?

What if you could build four sites a year, and started when your child was eight? That's 40 websites. On his or her 18th birthday, 39 websites would be producing $600 each and one $350.

A total of $23,450 every year!

However, you will also have had nine years of fewer sites. In year nine 36 sites; in year eight 32 sites, etc, etc.

In other words, if you do not touch that income for the ten years, you could have a Grand Total of: about $100,000 in the bank plus the interest.

For a part-time job.

Plus, you and your children will have learned how to create websites and promote them on the Internet.

No college fee worries, no mortgage worries, and financial independence.

Of course, some sites might earn less than I predicted, but others will earn more for sure.

Give it a go, what have you got to lose? And you will be teaching your children at the same time.

The Golden Hour

The Golden Hour

by M.K. Graff

Review by Barry Boy

The Golden Hour by M.K. Graff is a novel written in the third person belonging to the genre of fiction mystery/thriller. Others might call it a cosy mystery, but so are the vagaries of the book classification system. It is set in current times in England, the UK, although the main protagonist, Nora Tierny is American - a writer by profession, and the heroine of a series of novels that is entitled the 'Nora Tierney English Mysteries', of which there are now four.

When the story opens, we meet Nora walking her infant son, Sean. She has the strange feeling that she is being followed, but she cannot think of a single reason why that should be so. The mystery deepens as we meet her friends and lover in different locations around the UK - places that really do exist for anybody who wants to follow her journeys on a map.

When the restorer of a famous painting dies of a dangerous disease that was thought to have been eradicated decades before - especially in Europe - Nora's boyfriend, Declan, a Detective Inspector in the Criminal Investigation Department of the British police force, becomes involved.

Other events take place around Nora and Declan, but they seem to be unrelated, although they all serve to deepen the mystery and increase the suspense.

The Golden Hour has twists and surprises aplenty - enough to keep any armchair sleuth guessing right to the end!

The Golden Hour has been extremely well edited, and I found the title to be intriguing when I picked up the book, but it is relevant to the story and Miss Graff explains why during the tale. I thoroughly enjoyed The Golden Hour by M.K. Graff and will read other novels in the series, since it seems to me that the novels in the series are stand-alone stories.

I give The Golden Hour five out of five stars - well done Ms. Graff!

This is a link to M.M. Graff's unique interview on MPS

Podcast: The Golden Hour