PLR Articles - Are they Worth It?

[branica]

I belong to a plr monthly membership and the service while not exactly cheap has started to finally produce some results for me. Not a ton yet but here is a Excel screen shot of that has recently - after about 60 days. I will not disclose the exact formula for my current results but I hope it lasts . And yes I am not sure if this will have a long life in Google (and over 90% of the traffic is from Google right now) but I hope it does cross over to MS & Yahoo. I do hope it continues though!



One part of the site has generated unreal per click revenue but I expect to this to settle down after a few days. Why? I don't know just a gut feeling.

And NO I did not bother rewriting the articles at all .

I haven't exactly recoup my costs in the plr monthly membership just yet but I hope after 30 days that I will if this pace continues. I just added some more articles so let's see how much the site grows in terms of traffic and revenue.

I'll keep this updated every few weeks unless something unusual happens.

[branica]

So far no real duplicate content penalty. However some of the rankings of the terms are dropping. I haven't really focused on getting large amount of backlinks so we'll see how traffic stacks up in a few months.

I did add another batch of plr articles earlier this month. Here is a snapshot of the traffic:



Not that bad for non altered plr articles!

[branica]

Here is an update on the traffic. I have added a bunch more article. A total of approx ~220 plr articles.



I have also added a 2 blogs. I am doing one blog for each article set - try to improve some internal linking and indexing. I am closely watching which pages are going supplemental and trying to blog and ping with the pages in the supplemental index to see if I can get them out - so far only 3 articles.

[branica]

Quick update: Over 7k impressions since Oct - earning about $130 so far. About a buck a day but for Jan the avg earnings per day has been about $2 per day. Not too shabby and more or less pays for my monthly plr membership.

[branica]

Here is an updated graph that shows how the plr articles are doing:


I have been adding articles at a good clip. Google Indexed Pages: 240 and there is about 60 to 70 pages in the supplemental index. I have some site maps for each pack of article to see if that helps but I think I should expect this level of supplement pages. I will be adding more pages aggressively to see what happens.

[branica]

Here is the latest update. Unique traffic was up but revenue was down a bit. I have added more articles to try to offset the supplemental page issue that I am seeing:

[branica]

My avg daily earnings have rosen nicely this month to about $3 per day. So this now is a break even venture (plr monthly subscription + hosting). I expect to be profitable soon.

The most interesting aspect of using PLR articles is that now I can see some really interesting traffic + adsense data for multiple niches. Really surprising to me.

[branica]

I moved this thread to the affiliate / making money part of the forum since it is really about using the content to make money within the search engines.

Here is the latest graph:




I had to make a few adjustments since I had to deduct some arbitrage testing I was doing (last and this month only) with adwords with the plr content. I didn't make a huge difference but I did subtract the cost and traffic for each month. Even with that some spending on adwords, traffic has been increasing steadily as well as revenue.

[onlinedownlods]

I have about 300 PLR articles...can i go ahead submitting these articles? Will there be any problem of google ban ? How many articles should i submit in a week?

[branica]

I would not submit PLR articles to article directories if that is what you mean. Most PLR content services will not allow this.

Do a bit of re-writing if you are planning to submit them.

I am using PLR articles on one of my sites to generate adsense / affiliate income.