On a whim I bought Matt Callen's SimplyPLR product tonight to see what it was all about. Basically, the product is a membership site that delivers 225 limited distribution Private Label Rights articles each month. The articles are delivered in two formats — normal text files and “spin ready”. The membership site is hooked up to the free spinner at ArticleApps.com — which gets you 12 versions of the spun articles at a time.
There is also a cool automatic blog posting feature that will allow you to post to your blogs automatically using the XLMRPC feature present in WordPress and other popular blogging platforms.
I am pretty impressed by the slick nature of the user interface inside the membership site. Also, I am totally impressed with the quality of the articles that I reviewed (just a few at random so far). Pretty quality stuff. The spun articles are high quality as well (mostly spinning complete sentences).
Here is an example of a couple of paragraphs out of a spun article titled “Enterprise Rental Cars:
Some people don't own an automobile. Even in America it's a fact. Many times people own cars but aren't at home and thus need temporary wheels. It's rental cars to the rescue when people don't want to put wear and tear on their car, or need a car for another reason. Enterprise is one of the most popular auto rental businesses. That's because Enterprise car rentals are not overly pricey, they're generally in good shape, and Enterprise will even pick up the renter from home, from the office, or from the airport.
Enterprise has many locations all over the nation. Compact cars, full size cars, sedans and coups are all there for the taking. There are even luxury cars and convertibles for rent. Why not take advantage of the sun and weather especially when it can be expensed? They even have cheap rates. A weekly rental for under $300 can be a great deal. Do the math on this one. Use public transportation for the daily commute. When cars are about $20 per day, on the weekends, run errands. All the car needs are then taken care of for about $60 weekly. Even a car lease can't match the value of $3500 a year for auto use.
And here are those same 2 paragraphs out of another spun version of the same article. You can tell the article is similar, but it is very unique compared to other spun content that I have seen.
Not everyone owns a car. It may seem impossible, but it's real. There are also people who have a car but travel to different cities where they'll need a car. Whether it's for a trip near home over the weekend, running errands that can't be done via public transportation, or getting around while 1000 miles away from home, that's where rental cars come into the picture. And one of the companies people choose most often is Enterprise. these cars are reliable, cheap, and Enterprise will pick people up from home, the office or at the airport.
Enterprise has many locations all over the nation. They offer a variety of cars from sub compact all the way up to SUVs. Some even offer sporty convertibles. Life is short, why not live a little? They even have cheap rates. $300 for the week is a real bargain for a car. Get out the calculator. Use public transportation for the daily commute. When cars are about $20 per day, on the weekends, run errands. For about $60 a week all the car needs are fulfilled. Once price, insurance and all the other car costs are taken into account, under $3500 for a rental year is a lot less than owning.
All in all I am very impressed with this the Simply PLR membership site after looking around for about an hour. Each month there are articles on topics chosen by Matt's team. You do not get to choose the topics, which is the only downside that I can see to this site.
Still, if you are paying $47 a month for this site and you are getting 225 spin-ready articles (15 topics) each month, that is only $0.21 per article. That's crazy cheap. Let's say you build a website from each article pack using a tool like Firepow. Now that would be cool. You could easily build 15 sites a month with Firepow and SimplyPLR in combination. I may do that this month. Do that for a year and you would have a small blog empire. Then you could use the spun versions for marketing through article directories (they don't generally like PLR, but this stuff looks really unique to me, especially if you spin and then rewrite a little).
All in all, I recommend this if you are looking for PLR. Matt Callen's SimplyPLR is a class act.
Regards,
Mark
Hmm, altough the spinning software, isn’t there the risk – with all that peolpe subscribing to SimplyPLR – that the same posts and the same type of niche blogs explode and that the offer content is far more then the demand (the interest of the readers) ?
Does SimplyPLR have a money back garanty ? I wasn’t able to see mention on the sales page…
ciao
alex
Thanks for the answers Mark.
I’m less concerned about duplicate content, rather than high competiotion due to the overload of the single niches.
What I wanted also to say is: let’s say that SimplyPLR gives you 10 packages per month. That means that nearly every member tries to make (let’s assume) at least 8 niche sites per month.
Let’s assume that the SimplyPLR customers in the whole world are 1000, that means that in each of the 10 niches of the packages there will arise around 800 niche blogs. That could change completely that niche. The competition would be instantanously much much harder.
This in theory. Only practice can tell…
so I’m waiting for your results 😉
ciao
alex
P.S. Please do me a favor and install the Subscribe to comments plugin, so i get notified when somebody replies to a comment. Thanks
What thing is not pleasant to me here: You wrote, that they give every month articles on new subjects. It turns out, I should build new sites on other subjects each month, and for old I will not receive any more a content.
You tried to check spinned article on duplication by programs of type Dupe free pro? If many participants will in club and if in addition independently not to modify article, the probability that there will be exactly identical versions is great.
Hey Alex — depends on what you mean by Risk. Risk of a duplicate content penalty from Google is very low IMHO (I do not even believe such a penality exists). Even so, articles are heavily spun so many combinations are possible. The one that I spun passed copyscape, although as you point out, if 70000 people join SimplyPLR, that could possibly change.
However, sadly, most people will join and not do anything with the content. It will just sit on their hard drive. Most people fail to act.
In any case, a small amount of rewriting would solve this.
If you are talking about risk submitting PLR to an article directory, that is another issue, and means that you definately need to do a little rewriting. If you do this rewriting prior to spinning, then you can post hundreds of unique articles using something like Article Post Robot.
SimplyPLR has a 60 day money back guarantee.
Hope that helps — Mark
@Alex — Regarding competition — you are right. Basically, you get 15 topics per month. That means you are spending about $3 per site on content. Plus a domain name for $10. Let’s say you do some other promotion for $7. So the questions is for $20 per site can you do things to beat the competition so that you can get the site to a buck or so per day?
I think I can — we’ll see.
Basically, I am working on a “formula” for creating niche sites where I do as many automated things as possible and leave the site alone. So, this could fit well into my strategy for that.
I don’t think you would be happy if this was the only content that you used.
Sub to comments — Yikes. I was playing around with a new comments pluging and I killed subscribe. It should be working now. thanks for the heads up.
Regards,
Mark
@Yurium — Yes, I think that is right. I think this is targeted at people who want to build one site per topic. This is similar to what I have talked about before ($5 Formula). You build a small site with AdSense or whatever and do some promotion and let it it there.
This is not a good service if you are looking to have a handful of authority blogs on topics that you choose.
Still, if you want to have a niche site empire like Garry Conn but you are not a writing machine like Garry (that guy is insane) this is an interesting approach. I plan to try an build out the 15 sites from this and see what happens this month. It is a pretty inexpensive experiment, especially considering the fact that I can always sell the blogs for cheap in Sitepoint Marketplace if things don’t work out.
Thanks,
Mark
Mark – here’s my two cents. It seems to me these types of PLR memberships tend to run so generic – I don’t see how you truly monetize the material.
For example – let’s take the rental car. You’ve found a good micro niche for “renting SUV’s in Minnesota”. You’ve built an attractive Firepow site and you’re going to add content now. How does Matt’s content help that blog? I don’t see how it could. The flip side is you build a generic site on “weight loss” and you’re competing with 2 million other blogs, many of which are using bland, generic content.
I’m sure I’m missing your game plan, but it seems to me the “set it and forget it” sites are more micro in nature. Thanks!
Right — in the case where you are working on a niche that you found on your own, the content is of little help (unless you are lucky).
What I am thinking about is creating sites dictated by the content that they provide. So, they provided “rental car content” — 15 orig PLR articles that can be spun into infinite combinations.
A quick look at “rental cars” shows some promising long tails like — Charleston airport rental cars. So, you publish spun versions of the PLR content to a new site. This get’s you some good general content and creates lots of tag pages. The you can create a unique landing page for each of your unique long tail keywords (Charleston airport rental cars) with specific content. Then use other spun versions of the article for article marketing, etc.
Add in a couple of other sources of republished content (republished article directory articles with a unique intro, youtube videos and news feeds) and all of the sudden you have a 100 page site with a few carefully targeted money pages.
Backlinks should target those optimized money pages.
At least that is my thinking.
I am not suggesting that you can just “publish” the PLR content and retire. 🙂
Do you own also the payed versin of ArticleApps ?
ciao
alex
P.S. thanks for adding the subscribe to comments plugin
No I don’t — I use my own code for spinning and I use Article Post Robot for posting.
Hey Marco, do you really wrote your own spinning program ?
What were you missing in the spinning softwares out there, that you coded by yourself ?
ciao
alex
Hm, seems that you want to rob the title of Mr Automated to Cybercoder…
Would be interesting to know more on how your system looks like
ciao
alex
@Alex — the only reason I wrote my own spinning code is so that I could integrate that code into automation scripts that I have for posting to and maintaining niche blogs. Existing spinners are fine, but they are all point and click applications. I needed something that could be run as a script.
Nope — just trying to create and maintain lots of AdSense sites (and possibly sell some). You can see what I have in mind here. NicheSitenow.com — it is a work in progress.
Basically, given a blog title, a keyword list and a domain name, my automation will (or does) install and configure wordpress, automatically gather content and get a “starter blog” up and running complete with eBay and amazon affiliate pages. The “publish” dates can be set in the future to “drip” so that it looks natural to google.
Note that I said “my automation” but I am working with a friend who is a “real programmer” but not in the Internet Marketing niche.
Once that is created, a blogger can just start adding more original content on top.
Basically, once the keyword research is done, it should take 10 minutes to start up a blog with 50-200 pages of “semi-unique” content that is ready to have additional unique content added to it.
It is a work in progress — but that is why I am interested in SimplyPLR.
Thanks,
Mark
Very interesting.
Apart your own spinner, do you have a commercial one to suggest ?
The software if used resourcefully can do a lot of good to you. Help you earn a lot.
Hey Mark,
What are some you are sites that I may take a look at?
Bryan, I don’t usually disclose URLs for sites that I make like that. If you would like to see the formula that I follow for AdSense mini-sites. It’s a free video that describes the process.
Hi Mason,
any updates on SimplyPLR? How did the Adsense sites worked out and how are/were they performing with the the SimplyPLR articles?
Jack — to be honest I built a couple but never really promoted them. Just too many things to do.