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The
Art Of Rewriting
What are PLR articles?
PLR or Public Label Rights articles are articles that are available
cheap. You’d probably pay a few pennies for each article. However, since
they are sold to a few hundred or a few thousand buyers, the material
you get will not be exclusive. Which is why people who buy them do so
and then put them out for rewriting. Once they are rewritten and are not
duplicates of anything on the Internet, that’s it – you’ve got an
article ready to go!
The trick is to think of PLR articles as content. Rather like clay which
you need to change and mold to make it look different, to give it a
different form. It’s the raw material you have and you need to work with
it and on it to make it something that looks good, reads good and sounds
good.
Checking for Plagiarism
When you do rewrites for
yourself or for a client, it is imperative that you check it with a
plagiarism tool in order to be absolutely sure that your article is all
right to upload.
One free plagiarism checker is Articlechecker.
All you do is select the whole article, paste it into the space provided
for the text and check it. If there are any phrases or sentences that
are duplicates, they will come up. Then what you do is change those
around and put the whole thing through
again – and again – till you get it right.
The most popular tool is Copyscape. You can pay for this service or you
can use it free. $10 buys you a lot of checks. If you want to use it
free, you can put articles through a URL twenty times, no more. This is
one service that one would recommend you pay for – it is well worth it
if you are thinking of rewriting in a big way. There’s another great
advantage – it can check up to 2000 words at a time so you can put
together 4 articles and put them through in one shot.
Yet another way would be to put a couple of sentences at a time through
the Google search bar and see if anything identical comes up.
Checking Keyword Density
There might just be a client
who wants a certain keyword percentage in each rewritten article. Once
he gives you the keyword, you could mentally calculate it (4 times in a
400 word article makes it 1%) or you could put it through a
keyword
analyzer tool. In case you find that the percentage is below what is
needed, just rewrite the article a bit, adding the keyword at
appropriate places and check again till you have the required number.
How different should it be?
Some clients insist that the
rewritten article be different from the original and specify a certain
percentage. Say the client wants a 75% difference. How on earth do you
measure this? Well, there’s a free tool online that does just that. Copy
your original and your rewrite and paste them into the respective boxes
in Dupecop and the percentage comes up!
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