Thanks so much for coming by.

PLR never occurred to me either until I read Jame’s post and investigated further. Simply Googling “PLR” brings back tons of sites! Looks like a whole industry unto itself.

I must say that your blog certainly has some of the most well thought out, original content I’ve read anywhere.

Hope you’ll come by again.

whoa I have never heard of PLR, let alone think of it. It bothers me because – without PLR, there is already a tendency to see recycled content. Now with the Microstock of Written content?! I’m going to check out that link you provided

“What will happen in the end, I think, will be up to us, the bloggers who care about what we want to say, and ultimately who care about our readers.”
I couldn’t agree with you more.

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@Catherine and James: It’s obvious that a certain number of writers/photographers who use this business model ARE making money, just as I’m sure a small percentage of those “buy a home for no money down!” real estate “gamblers” make money, too. But how many do not?

@Harry: I’ll address more in a future post (I guess this will be my first “unofficial” multi-part post.)

iStock has a lot of excellent photographers selling their work there and I’m happy to use my credits on them. There’s also a lot of crap and no matter what venue you choose, whether it’s writing or photography, you’re always going to get the people who find a way to make a quick buck and ruin it for the rest of us.

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What webmasters don’t realize is that they get a higher ROI from original content. Stupid.

@ Nez – Thank you for this article (and the link). I think you’ve done a fantastic job at looking a little deeper into the issue. You’ve brought up some great points.

Regarding photographers – I know a professional photographer who used to earn about 10k a day. That’s 10 thousand dollars every 24 hours. He is now unemployed and makes about 50$ a month selling stock photography. Welcome to the world of killing off professionals with cheap.

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I feel sorry for the real writers. At one end of the spectrum you get thousands of people willing to churn out any old crap to make a few bucks.

And many webmasters use them because they can’t afford to pay for solid content. But, in the meantime, the decent writers can’t get any work, because everyone is buying the crap.

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We’ve discussed this on my blog before and some of us are of the belief that when it comes to blogs, we would like to see a report on how many blogs remain stagnant as bloggers drop out. I know since I started blogging I have authors (who used to visit me) who are either on hiatus or have quit.

That is sad how photography has lost its value. I hope those that are good have other sources to distribute their work, as some of it is phenomenal. Although Flickr reports they have millions of images, a lot of it is personal pictures that may not be useful for websites or blogs.

The “canned articles” are usually used by those looking to make a quick buck from their ads. I’m sure it works, but by using it the issue of duplicate content may come into play.

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