Is it just me or is using PLR getting to be a little…easier? Let me try to explain what I’m thinking. I build basically two types of sites on two different platforms. I maintain a few sites that have original content and many more that I use PLR or articles gathered from the directories. My delivery system is either Wordpress or XSP.

Now before I post any PLR, I rewrite the article. But out of curiosity I sometimes go to Google and Yahoo and see how many people are posting the same PLR without making changes. The results have begun to surprise me. The numbers have begun to decline. Or so it seems to me. Either people are getting with the program and making changes or (more likely) there is so much flipping PLR that nobody can get around to posting everything they purchase.

Now I know what you are thinking. Dude, the search engines are doing a better job at filtering duplicate content. They are. No doubt. However, just because you are posting duplicate content does not mean your page is not getting indexed. It’s not like Google is blocking all extra copies from their search results. No, they just drop into supplemental hell, as we all know.

I use Orwell Pro to help populate my blogs (and XSP) with usable content. I like the tool. Simply put in a keyword and it goes out and finds articles on that topic. It has this neat feature that lets you determine the saturation of an article, basically allowing you to check to see how many instances of it are listed in Y/G/M. I’m finding usable content with very low saturation. I take that article and add a nice (quickly written) commentary and post it to the project. In 2 minutes I’ve made a roughly 15-20% change to an article that is pretty good and is barely used.

Have we reached a saturation point with PLR? Certainly this isn’t absolute but it seems as though the PLR factories are putting out so much stuff and providing content to such extreme niches that it is just sort of spreading itself thin. I think this is excellent. It might make things easier for me, because I always rewrite my articles, maybe I won’t feel like I have to change them 80% and can just do like 40-50%.

Maybe everybody is just rewriting their stuff. It’s best for everybody if you do. You, the reader, other posters. But I kinda doubt it. I just think there is a lot of PLR floating around out there.

Have you wondered why there haven’t been any new PLR membership sites opened up of late? (PLRPro seems like it may be the only one actually growing) If the market was still open you can bet the guberus would rush to sell into it. Heck, I’ve seen solid PLR practically being given away, like those from Ron of Ultrabum fame.

It’s curious. It seems as though we may have reached a saturation point between the amount of PLR in circulation versus the number of subscribers using it versus the amount of new content getting posted to the article directories.

I may be totally off-base with this. But the dynamics sure seem like they are changing. And, if so, it’s good for us in the content delivery business.

Delivering content to the web is hard work. I know some of you who do some black hat stuff to make mad money, would never consider messing about with article sites, and think this is stupid anyway. But out of all the stuff I’ve tried, writing seems to suit me best. It’s just very tiresome, so any edge I can get is welcome.