If you’ve been thinking about using articles on web sites, you can do it the hard way, as I have been doing – writing them all for TerrysComputerTips.com, for my newsletters and for TerryStockdale.com.
Or, you can get a head start with articles from one of the many article directories. These have author “biography/advertising” boxes that you must publish along with the article. The authors’ consent to you to use their article is based on your agreement to show their links as working links. You get content and they get links to their sites, which may send visitors directly there and which will help with search engine rankings. But, you can’t change the articles, so your content duplicates that of many other sites.
You can pay ghostwriters to generate content, if you like, but that can get expensive quickly. Plus, you have to find a good ghostwriter…
Another way to generate content for web sites, newsletters and ezines is to use “Private Label Articles.”
PLA’s are articles that someone has written, or has paid to have written, and then are providing for you to use. Usually, you purchase PLA’s for your use on your web sites or in your newsletters and ezines.
Sometimes, however, you can get private label articles at significant discounts, or even free – you’re really signing up to receive their newsletters and advertising emails, usually about some aspect of marketing via the web. (There are some huge differences between these advertising emails and “spam.” First, you agree to receive them. Second, the emails have an “unsubscribe link” that really works like it should. These marketers are running legitimate internet businesses and they can not afford to “spam.”)
Normally, you can not sell or give away the private label articles that you buy, but you are free to use them on your web site(s) and in your newsletter(s) or ezine(s).
Even better, PLA’s normally do not have an author bio block (so you don’t have unwanted links to take visitors from your pages) and you are usually permitted to change the articles so that you have unique content.
