I’d like to say hi to those fine folks in Bermuda. Thanks for reading.

As of today my Lost Ball Squidoo lens is ranked #380. So in less than a week it has gone from 35K to under 400. They say that’s good. For those that have clicked over and checked it out, I say thank you. Squidoo is one of the funnest and coolest things I’ve paticipated in on the net in a while. It has just captured my imagination with its style and simplicity.

Anyway, I received a comment from Pete who posed this question: “Interesting that you re-write PLR articles almost 100% so why join them?”…”If I have to re-write the damn PLR article myself what am I paying membership for? Articles ideas. The $70-100 per month price seems steep for article ideas.”

Good questions. For what its worth I’ll try to answer them. Just remember that my thinking is from a guy who doesn’t make much scratch from this web venture. I’m every guy out there reading this blog trying to get a jump on this business. I’m just like you, figuring it out as I go.

Well, I’m paying a lot less than $70-100 to be in the PLR article sites I’m in. One (InfoGoRound) I pay nothing for since you can write an article and get reimbursed the membership fee. The other site is PLRPro where I got a pre-opening deal on or something.

With InfoGoRound you have access to a rather large PLR database plus monthly article sets. With PLRPro you get 440 article a month spanning 11 topics. I use each PLR site to compliment the other. I’ve mixed and mashed articles from both for months now. That is a huge time saver.

PLRPro is more than just the articles. First, they do a pretty swell job of keyword researching the 11 topics each month. Only 200 other people have access to that exact keyword research and I am comforted to know that of any particular article set very few are going to do anything with it anyway. That’s just the way it is, yo. There are 11 article sets each month. 40 articles per batch. It will be a very small minority to utilize every article each month.

Second, the forum in PLRPro is a very good resource. The members give and take. It’s a nice place to be. I can ask a question from those in the know and get a good response. It’s easy to start a thread and get your question answered. Daniel and Marc are always willing to do what it takes to answer your question or help you out.

Third, PLRPro has released a members only article announcer site where you can write an original piece of work and post it to a PR5 article site. Sure I can submit my articles to isnare, et. al. but it will be buried among the rest. Plus they have implemented revenue sharing so you’ll get a small cut in the Adsense action. This will expand to other niches and they have a person dedicated to SEO for the sites. Think of it like Article Underground. But I am not paying AU fees.

As far as rewriting versus writing from scratch. Yes, I can write an article on just about anything but the time it takes me to come up with ideas and research that topic is prohibitive since I work full time, kids, other hobbies, etc. It’s just easier to rewrite something rather than come up with something fresh.

And rewriting is for sites I really care about. Many of the topics released each month I don’t care one bit for and generally only change about 25% of the text and do a couple of other quick things to make them different. Heck I’m like most of the other members in that I can’t use all the content that is provided. I just can’t squeeze out that kind of time to make the articles different, build blogs/websites and most importantly promote each one I build. I’m either not that good or not that motivated. Probably a little of both.

Now I will say that of the articles that I drop into the PLRPro’s article directory, those are 100% original. I’ve written almost an article a day since they opened that resource and basically find it very easy to simply sit down and ramble on about something I know about. 30 minutes tops and I’m ready to submit the aticle. But the key is I know and care about the topic.

Now, I gave a heavy plug for PLRPro and to a lesser extent, InfoGoRound . Those are my PLR membership sites of choice and thought it was pertinent for the discussion. You could apply my rational to pretty much any other PLR site.

Bottom line:

I rewrite completely those topics I really care about and want to build an *cough* authority site with. Some months I won’t care about any of the topics. I can rewrite faster than I can write from scratch.

For those topics I care little about, if I decide to build a site with the content, I’ll make about a 25% change in the article with additions and subtle rewrites. This is to protect my site from the jokers who make no changes. You certainly don’t have to.

If you have time to write all your articles and can keep coming up with fresh website ideas then you don’t need PLR.