In Review - PLProductReviews.com
Posted by Jesse Graham on 10/29/07 in Product Reviews
PlproductReviews.com is a brainchild of the new GURU in the block, Anik Singal. The site sells private label product reviews to those who make a living off affiliate sales referrals. The way this works is that an individual pays a monthly fee of $47.00 and receives 10 reviews per product with 10 Niches per month. The end result is 100 articles per month at 47.00.
On the surface, it looks like a helpful service as most individuals that work in affiliate sales do it as a sideline to their true nine to five job. They do not have time to write exclusive product reviews, nor do they have the time to pay someone to do it. Even if they did, they would have to pay a minimum of five dollars per review as opposed to the forty-seven cents that PLP offers. Oh, Anik claims it would take $5000 of your money and $50,000 of his writing these articles personally, because he estimates his time to be worth $500/hour and the average Joe’s worth $50/hour. Don’t fall for the hype.
Once you receive the articles, the work is very little. All that you have to do is place your affiliate link within the text, spending a maximum of two or three minutes in each article. Then spend another five minutes or so placing them in article directories to steer traffic to your site.
Pros
The service saves you a lot of time which otherwise will be spent in writing and editing the product reviews. The service provides 100 reviews which in practice is not possible to achieve in a month unless you are ultra dedicated. The cost is a low 47 cents per review.
Cons
Too many. There are no restrictions on how many people can buy the service. If it gets popular, there could be a 1000 people downloading the reviews every month making it an internal competition between you and 999 others.
In the PLP FAQ document they state:
What can’t I do with these reviews?
In a nutshell, you cannot use these reviews in spam emails, and you must not submit them to article directories. You also do not have resale rights to these reviews. That means you cannot give the reviews away, resell them, or put them on turnkey sites you intend to give away or resell.
This limits you greatly on the marketing aspects of your site. I wouldn’t signup just for this one reason. Article Directories are a great source of traffic and there are hundreds if not thousands. By restricting this option, Anik is cutting me off with a great source.
Suppose, I were to use these reviews on my blogs, and the 999 others on their blogs, what are the chances of Google sandboxing my review pages in search results? Google hates duplicate content and simply pushes them into the supplemental index. When I continue doing it for 100 reviews, I end up getting penalized by Google. My whole blog suffers.
Now, is it worth the $47/month price tag/ You be the judge.

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Sucker | Oct 30, 2007 | Reply
Yeah, you definitely run into the duplicate content problem. That means no SERPs, plus if anyone starts to read the review, they’ll realize it’s the same crap from elsewhere, causing them to leave.
Even worse, it’s not like you can rewrite the review like you can rewrite an article. You change a few words and you could change the whole aspect of the review from positive to negative or vice versa.
admin | Oct 30, 2007 | Reply
Exactly sucker, you got the point. I wonder till when will the deception to make money continue.