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Making The Most of Public Domain
and Private Label Content
There's so much public domain
content available all over the internet, with Master Resale Rights
available and sites springing up left and right with Private Label
articles you can use to create your own products, but what do you
need to bear in mind, what is the best way to use all this content
and what can you create with it?
What to Look Out For:
Copyright - you absolutely
must check on this - violating someone's copyright is not clever and
can be a really expensive mistake not to mention seriously damaging
your reputation. Is it really public domain? All those lawyers fees
can really mount up when checking into all this but believe me, you
really don't want to end up in court over it.
Public Domain Content - If
you have the money to have a lawyer look at copyright for you then
fine, go ahead and get started. Where can you find this type of
content? It can be difficult to find content that is free to use but
here are a few links to get you started:
http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://www.wikimedia.org/
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
Master Resale Rights - If you can't afford expensive lawyers what
else can you do? One rather less pricey way is to buy Master Resale
Rights to a product - this gives you the opportunity to name
yourself as the author, use the content in another product, rewrite
the whole thing - the possibilities are endless. Just be aware with
this that you will need to look at the terms and conditions of what
you are allowed to do with the product before you buy.
On a budget? - not to worry, there are still many ways you can find
great content without spending a fortune or worrying about whether
you can legally use it. Sites such as
http://www.infogoround.com and
http://www.thelostfiles.com provide guaranteed public domain or
private label content for a monthly fee. You could also sign up to
some of the well known internet marketer's newsletters. Why? Well if
you're serious about internet marketing you should be checking out
all the latest happenings anyway, but a lot of newsletter owners
will have free ebooks, giveaways and articles to download - some of
which you will be able to use as your own.
So you've got your content ready to go and you've checked your
rights and permissions but there is one more thing to think about -
sites such as
http://www.copyscape.com can check for duplicate content on the
internet and of course so can the search engines. This could mean
anything from the search engines deciding they won't rate your site
as highly because the exact same content is available elsewhere to
some smarty pants asking you if you really did write that incredibly
good article because they've seen someone else claiming that they
wrote it too, so you do need to be aware of this when looking to use
content you haven't personally created, but that doesn't mean you
shouldn't go ahead and make the most of all that wonderful
information.
What Can You Do?
You could just read the information to learn from it yourself; you
could read it to get ideas for businesses, more articles, content,
the list is limited only by your imagination.
How about:
Ebooks
Print Books
Presentations
Membership Sites
Face to face courses
Mini courses
Teleclass content
Webcast content
Podcast content
Blog content
Content for your Autoresponder
Ezine content
Articles for your site to build AdSense income pages
Viral Reports
Tips Lists
When it comes to using all the content you have gathered, you need
to look through it all and decide what you want to produce. If you
plan to use content from more than one source, such as 2 or 3
articles by different authors to be combined into a report, you will
need to go through and change the content into a similar style,
check that it is all written in the same tense, make sure the
formatting is the same throughout, check for spelling and grammar
(for example - spelling for some words is different in the US than
the UK) and look through all the articles to see if any of the
points made are duplicated.
Once you've done this, make a list of points you want to make in
your report, read the articles through again and start combining
them together to fit what you want to say - cut and paste to copy
sections into the right place.
Next, look at the way your draft reads now and see if it fits your
style of writing, your personality and your business. Reword it to
fit with this - there's no point in producing a very formally
written, stiff sounding report for a hobby site.
At this point you could just tweak it, proof read it, and then go
ahead and publish it but to take it a step further and make it
really unique, why not look at how you might rewrite it so that all
of the content is yours - now you've got the basic idea down and
laid out, it shouldn't take you long to reword things, add in some
of your own ideas and keywords that fit your site, and maybe a few
quotes and suddenly you're looking at something that no-one else has
got, that the search engines will love and that no-one can claim you
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