Looking for as much a no-brainer for PLR as there is in Internet marketing? Why not? Yes, we are all members of far too many memberships, particularly for PLR articles. Personally I’m a member of two: PLRPro, which is simply outstanding and InfoGoRound.
Everybody has heard of PLRPro. Hardly anyone has heard of InfoGoRound. So why should you care? Because, if you want it to be, IGR is free. I have yet to pay for one month since I’ve been a member. Write one simple little article, on anything you want, and have it approved, which isn’t hard, and they reimburse your monthly membership.
As an IGR member, you have the option to participate in our exclusive, Patent Pending “Cash for Content Program” by writing and submitting articles through our member “Publishing Center.” The Publishing Center includes a number of handy writing tools including a built in spelling and grammar check, thesaurus, an attractive text box with automated word count, writing “quick-tips”, and more!
…You may submit up to 1 article (400 word minimum) for each or any month of your IGR membership. For any month during which you choose to write and submit an acceptable article, we’ll issue a full rebate on your membership fee for that period - making your IGR membership completely free. (For any month during which you choose not to write and submit an article, you simply pay the already low IGR membership fee as normal, without rebate.)
So is the effort worth it? I mean if the article packs are crap then why bother, right? The articles are very well written. There are 4-50 article packs per month. In addition you also get “Product Packs”. What are these? These are pre-written ebooks with graphics and sales letters ready to modified and sold on CrapBank or eBay or on your website. Heck, pull it apart and use it as extra content on your blog. And there is more. Each month they drop bonus articles on different niches. Usually around 250 extra. That doesn’t include the over thousand articles submitted to the IGR database that you can search on and pull even more articles.
So everyone knows about the over-delivery of PLRPro. IGR is no slouch in that regard either. They have a nifty website builder called Instant Niche Site Builder. Pick a keyword and it will populate the builder with articles from the IGR database and/or your own PLR. Templates are available or build your own easily for use with INSB.
What else they got? How about an Instant Newsletter Generator? It generates a professional newsletter in 9 easy steps. Anything else? Sure. How about the new Instant Training Course Generator? Right now it generates a nice five part training course from articles in the IGR database. It’s pretty slick if you are so inclined to send these things to your subscribers.
And last, you can request articles written by members of IGR. Want an articles on ducks? Well, just ask and you might receive.
I like IGR. For $25 it’s a pretty good deal. For free, it’s a freakin’ no-brainer.
11 responses so far ↓
lanshark // Apr 7, 2007 at 10:58 am
I tried IGR early last year and gave up because of the low quality of the articles. From what you say, they must have raised that quality a bunch. As far as the rest of their offerings, they are just helping you/us to pollute the Internet with YM (Yet More) of the near-worthless blathering with which we are already overwhelmed. Have you no scruples?
Splork // Apr 7, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Sorry bro. I disagree. I’ve been a member for around two years. I think the website builder is great for those so inclined. As long as you are rewriting the articles and making them unique and useful what could possibly be the problem? I have no problem with worthwhile newsletters. I subscribe to both IM and non-IM related newsletters and am perfectly happy to get them. IGR has a way to easily and efficiently create a newsletter for whatever topic you are interesting in sharing to the web. And even if you are offended by the website tools and find the quality of the articles bad, just use snippets of the product and article packs to populate blogs. That in itself is a time saver. And did I mention it can be free? I just don’t get the resistance. I pay nothing and have thousands of articles to, at the very least, use to mix and mash for my blogs to dance around the duplicate content mess.
I recommend a PLR site that offers a way to create websites, newsletters and training courses and my scruples are questioned (I don’t know if you are kidding or not). I can’t control what people do with the tools. If I recommended WordPress or Blogger Blogs (I do) would you suggest I have no scruples for that either because of people building splogs?
Sam // Apr 8, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Dear Splork,
Happy Easter to you. I have to agree with Lanshark here. IGR came well recommended by
(a friend Frank Sousa) when it was launched. The articles were poor to mediocre. And the amount of upselling effort was confusing and irritating. The only articles which are worse and garbage-worthy are from Mike Liebner’s expensive($99 a month) Article Underground which I had joined after a recommendation of Michael Campbell. I think both services were pathetic, article were not interesting or informative. They seemed to have been written by people under gun in some article sweat shops. Certainly, they are not worthy of a mention by people like you and Michael Campbell whom I respect as discerning and honorable people.
Splork // Apr 8, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Guess I must be a moron because I didn’t see them as any worse than any other PLR that I’ve read. I agree with the mediocre term because ALL PLR is mediocre. You get what you pay for.
I think the disconnect is that I do not use PLR for anything more than for ideas, snippets and phrases for my blogs. I do not use them to submit to article directories. I do not use them in full to populate my sites and blogs. I always re-write them to make them different and more intelligent. For 25 cents, I can’t see why anyone couldn’t pull something out of the 400 words to use to generate a fresh click to their site and an off-load to Adsense.
And why would anyone use PLR to populate a site that they cared about anyway? Do people think any site worth a bookmark has posted PLR?
The successful folks I know are using PLR to generate sites that are basically their replacements of portals from a couple years back. Quick, cheap and easy content to use to roll through a spinner and chunk out to multiple blogs to generate traffic back to money pages.
Sorry if I have upset sensibilities with my recommendation of IGR. I think the detractors are missing the forest for the trees.
BTW, what up selling? I haven’t been offered one thing since I’ve been a member.
lanshark // Apr 9, 2007 at 7:34 am
Splork, my scruples comment was indeed tongue-in -cheek.
However, you say above “And why would anyone use PLR to populate a site that they cared about anyway?” My response to that is to ask why you would create/maintain any site you don’t care about.
It’s a rhetorical question, because I know the answer: to make money. And, of course, the more sites, the more money.
I understand all that - which is why I said above - and I repeat - ” they are just helping you/us to pollute the Internet with YM (Yet More) of the near-worthless blathering with which we are already overwhelmed.”
People who are searching for information should get more than just quantity. And I have to believe that there is money in quality. It just takes a lot more effort…
Splork // Apr 9, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I agree with what you are saying in principal. I really do. I would prefer to only build sites on what I love, but there is only so much I love.
The reality is the more you build the more money you make. It’s a real crappy deal on the Internet. I help pollute the web everyday with crap I have no interest in for the sole reason to make money. Much like newspaper editors. Much like movie producers. Much like..well you get the idea. Everything is about money. The more crap you sling the better chance you have of finding something that sticks. Not everyone can own a site like LifeHacker and make five/six figures a month.
I am totally with you on the quality. I’d like to think that what I add to the web is a cut above most stuff. I simply write and re-write a lot. Takes tons of effort and there is money in the quality. But there is also money in mediocrity too. I use OrwellPro to post existing stuff on some of my garbage sites and they continue to generate traffic and a bit of money.
ScamHunter // Apr 10, 2007 at 7:11 pm
I tried InfoGoRound based on your recommendation. I am at the moment requesting to cancel my subscription, BUT… it was/is a close decision. I had planned to simply write an article. But I know me and it will take me close to an hour to write an article and I don’t have that much time right now.
I created a couple small info/websites — one using IGR’s Instant Niche Builder as the starting point (I was pretty so-so about it) and one that I put together by hand.
I think I took an approach a lot like yours I searched for articles related to the topic that I was creating a website for. And I took the articles and read through them, deleting sections, adding sections and changing as I went. Some of the changes were minor editorial items. In other cases I actually disagreed with what was being recommended and so instead I offered “Some advise….. blah blah. However you should remember….” and then I’d insert my own two cents.
One thing I’m wondering. I set up these two websites, paid for a couple cheap text links to them. Added some blog comments where the URL pointed to the websites. And actually created an RSS feed and added it to my Google and Yahoo. Within a week the first site was in Google’s index but appears to be non-existent in the search results, despite the phrase not appearing to be that competitive.
In putting up portal/info websites, does it take a while before Google ever returns them in search results?
A lot of my reason for planning to cancel the IGR was I also thought I might wait a month or two and see how these websites did. If they stay nowhere in search engine results, then I can’t see that IGR would be worth my while even if I wrote an article and got it for free.
And yes, certainly I’m not above putting up a website on a topic that is not near and dear to my heart. It’s a bit of an experiment in internet marketing and SEO and yes trying to put some pennies in the piggy bank.
Splork // Apr 11, 2007 at 7:58 am
I’m not certain what you mean by being in the index but not in the search results. Do you mean your site was spidered and you’re waiting for it to show up in the results? That may take a few days.
Anyway, yea their website builder is pretty so-so. For the uninitiated I think it would be fine. Pop in some articles, Adsense and post. Pretty quick stuff. Certainly no worse than some of the crap sites that are being built by the thousands everyday. I personally use blogs which I’ve mentioned. Static HTML is just not what I want to do right now. I’d use XSP anyway to build those type of sites.
But again IGR is something I use to simply mix and match with other PLR on niche topics that may be profitable but I really don’t care much for. Nothing more or less. I’m trying to put some cash in the jar too my friend.
Bryan Winters // Apr 30, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Hi…
I’m Bryan Winters, owner of InfoGoRound.com…
First off, thanks for your post, and compliments on IGR!
Regarding the comments from lanshark and sam,
I suspect those could be competitors?! Very strange comments. (It seems everybody has a knock off private label rights site these days -IGR was the first site of its kind.) I can tell you that the *overwhelming* majority of comments we get about IGR are extremely positive and complimentary - unsolicted posts and comments just like the intial blog post.
We have 4.1 out of 5 star rating on RatingsHub as well (and it should be more like 4.5 since one of the posters had a very positive review, but forgot to rate us, so we ended up w/ zero stars on that particular review - oops!).
Another site ran a vote / contest on the top private label sites, and IGR was winning hands down - it wasn’t even a contest!
Our articles are very good quality, and we even have a member *rating* system by which members can rate the content. I encourage people to login to InfoGoRound.com and judge the content for themselves! If you’re not satisfied for any reason, we’ll happily refund your money.
It’s an awesome resource and a service I’m proud to offer. And like many say, it keeps getting better!
We recently added the “Instant Training Course Generator” feature as well, which enables members to create training courses within minutes!
-Bryan Winters
P.S. We also come recommend by some of the top Internet marketers such as Jim Daniels and Allan Gardyne. These guys do NOT recommend junk or poor quality.
P.P.S. Seeing that YOU are a contributor to the IGR article database, I guess these two are calling your submissions poor quality as well?
Apparently lanshark and Sam were expecting over 500 National Geographic quality articles per month for 25 measley bucks? I’ll admit we’re not *that* good, lol.
Bryan Winters // Apr 30, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Just so people don’t think I’m the “biased site owner” by my comments above (which of course I am to some extent)…
Here are a couple quick reviews I found on
Google - these are *typical* reviews we receive
for infogoround.com:
http://jonathanwold.com/blog/?p=174
http://www.infogogetter.com/
http://www.gurudaq.com/article9.html
http://reviewhq.com/2005/12/infogoround-private-label-content/
http://www.surfthemind.com/?p=174
http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=41581
By the way, I don’t usually spend my time making comments like this, but these two comments “in question” above were so out of the ordinary, I felt I had the right to defend our site and service =)
Thanks for the opportunity!
-Bryan Winters
Splork // Apr 30, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Thanks for weighing in Bryan. When I was writing my monthly article for the IGR database today, it occurred to me that I didn’t mention how good some of the database article are when I wrote this review. They are written by real people. like me. I get decent reviews for my articles. Nothing to be embarrassed about so far.
I’m glad you mentioned that.
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