Potential effects of PLR articles
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I'm sitting on several hundred PLR articles that, with a bit of editing, would fit well into on of my sites.
This site otherwise produces new unique content every week, including videos, news and articles.
These PLR articles are very popular, copyscape shows at least 30 other sites are using some or all of the pieces, but the articles themselves are the sort of information pieces that don't really get old or change over time.
Never having gone for the direct use of PLR articles (have spun quite a few unique pieces in my time though), I'm wondering if there could be a negative effect to using them?
We're not in Google News or anything so don't have to worry about that, just wondering if it would diminish the effect of my unique pieces at all?
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Hi barry,
If you use these PLR with a standard spun, it will eventually have a negative effect. (especially after the scraper update and the panda)
I would do large scale spun (paragraph, sentences)
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