[...] went searching on Google for “how to use FaceBook for business”. That was a mistake. If I hated PLR before, I hate it even more now. I had to skim through what felt like thousands of almost identical [...]

And even when taking the trouble to rewrite the PLR articles (and if you do why not just write the darn thing from scratch?); the “modified” result far too often still bares too close a resemblance to the original article.

PLRs … only good for the seller, not the buyer. BTW; these aren’t the only “legal scams” internet marketers get suckered into…
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[...] And here are some blog posts inspired by the remarks we’ve seen so far: Will Content Kill the Web? The Web is on a crash course for disaster. There’s a glut of content out there, with more added daily in phenomenal amounts. The information is repetitive and redundant. The churned-out content that fills up the Internet is making it hard for people to sort out the good and the accurate from the ugly. Read more >>> [...]

[...] Will Content Kill the Web? PLR content drives down the market value of web content. Why buy pricier work when nearly-free (and sometimes free) is right there for the taking? [...]

There are some good writers who don’t know any better. There are cheap articles that are good – but not of magazine quality by any means. And yes – writers doing PLR should look to other alternatives. No insult meant to the good writers, as always.

I think the main problem is that because the Internet is has such a low cost point of entry, people who paid $10 bucks for a domain and pay say $10 a month for hosting just can’t afford to pay for decent content, so they turn to the dregs of writers who will sell crap writing for a couple of bucks. I doubt these people ever actually make any real money, so I would say that eventually the cycle of cheap content will just burn itself out. Cheap writers cannot write to the standards that a well paying publication requires anyway. I work as an editor for some of these low cost cheapie articles, and I am telling you, the quality is absolute crap.

For a good writer, the issue isn’t even worth worrying about. Writers who write for a couple of bucks aren’t your competition, and gigs that offer a few dollars in payment aren’t your market.

If you are writing in these circumstances, perhaps it is time to take an honest look at your skills and qualifications. The internet is filled with WAHMs, non English speakers, and generally unqualified people who think that writing is an easy way to make a few bucks on the side. It is, but that will literally be just a few bucks, and they are not good writers. (Most of them, that is – i do not mean to insult well trained, educated and practiced WAHMs, just the ones who suddenly decide that they are writers because they can put one word after another.)

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