How To Edit PLR Content To Get The Most Out Of It

Craft a killer title
It is therefore essential to take time crafting a title that will encourage others in your niche to invest in and/or read your product.

After you have created a hypnotic and persuasive title, you're ready to begin editing the content.

How much to rewrite?
To begin with, you always need to consider whether it's necessary to edit written content materials such as eBooks perhaps, special reports or articles.

If you are going to edit the content, the next decision is how much editing is necessary. It is not always easy to establish this but you can check to see whether the same content has been published elsewhere on the net as an indicator. There are a couple of ways you can do this.

The first option is to check using a specialized duplicate checker site like Copyscape. The problem with this is that unless you have a premium membership, the only way you can check is by pasting the content you want to check onto a web page which can be tiresome.
It may be easier to copy a few random passages from the piece you are working with before pasting the content into a standard Google search box. This will bring up any duplicates which should give you an idea of how many people are already using the same content.
In some ways, it's not a bad thing to see other people using the same content that you are thinking of using. This might indicate that the content is good quality and therefore worth working with. If however no one else has used the content on a website, it might indicate the opposite, that the materials are not so good.

Seeing content on another website will however give you a clear idea of how much editing is necessary to generate your own unique materials if the situation dictates that it is necessary (e.g. if you're going to publish on a website yourself).

Start the edit
Once you have an idea how much editing is necessary, get to work.

Go through the content sentence by sentence or paragraph by paragraph and rewrite each one as much as is necessary. This strategy means that the words change but the meaning and the flow of the original content is not altered or disturbed.
Alternatively, read a sentence of paragraph and then rewrite it in your own words from memory. Even better, do this with larger sections of the original content because this produces content that is even more unique than that created using the 'sentence by sentence' strategy.
This is inevitable because the first tactic only changes the words whereas reading and then rewriting from memory tends to change the content structure as well.

When you are trying to come up with alternative words and struggling, using an online thesaurus might sometimes come in handy.

To spin?
Another online tool that might be useful is any one of the numerous article spinning programs that automatically replace words in the text for you.

These programs are designed to create many different versions of the same base content. They are therefore particularly handy if you need to create many modified versions of a piece of content rather than one.

As an example, this would apply if you were rewriting a PLR article for submission to many different article directories. Submitting different versions to each directory is a big help if you are aiming for search engine rankings and an article spinner would speed this job up.

You can use a free article spinner and manually replace text with your own synonyms. This might take some time at the beginning but you can create many versions of the same article with a few clicks after you've entered the synonyms.
Other option is a paid spinner. The article spinning software that I really like is The Best Spinner which pretty much seems to live up to its name. The beauty of this program is that the lexicon of synonyms is added to by other users so it is always growing. This means that the article rewrites it produces are more accurate and reader-friendly than those produced by many other spinning programs (it's very affordable too at $77 per year).