There’s a ton of talk about SEO. Some people say this, some people say that… but the only true way of finding anything out is to test it yourself.

For that reason I wanted to see a while back if I could get a website to rank purely using PLR or Private Label Rights content.

What are the problems with using plr? Well, for starters if I’ve downloaded it for free… hundreds of other people have. So that means the content is far from unique.

I would say that unedited PLR content is probably the worst content to put on your site, and everyone who sells PLR recommends that you modify or “spin” the PLR articles before posting them.

However, I still wanted to see if it was possible to actually get a site ranked using PLR and to start getting traffic.

So I setup a blog using wordpress. I dropped it on some shared hosting with no dedicated IP. And I uploaded about 40 PLR articles to the blog.

I then set up the wordpress blog to post every day for 3 months… and it’s still posting.

The results? Well… they’re both good and bad.

First off, I’m absolutely non existent in Google (I might also add that the domain is really great and it STILL is non existent). I mean the site is there, and you can search for it specifically, but none of my keywords show up.

HOWEVER! I am first in Yahoo for a term that gets about 1.5M (yes that’s million) searches per month – according to the big G that is.

What about BING? Also non existent.

Now, granted the terms should be hard to rank for. Any term with that much traffic is going to be a bit of a pain to get on the first page of Google with and it may just take some more time.

It would seem though, that there are still super lazy ways of getting traffic these days… even if it’s few and far between.

Let me know what you think about PLR or if you’ve had any experience with it in the comments…