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| Making the Most of Public Domain
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| Posted: 4-05-2006 |
| Author: John and Andrea Paduchak |
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 copied.
Time to start creating!
Two Terrific resources that we have found to create amazing
viral reports and ebook products unique to you are the
Dead Easy ebook Creator software and Infogoround. To learn
more about how you can take Private Label and Public Domain
materials and create your own unique audio/video ebook
in minutes, visit us on the web at cfhsoftware.com and
http://powerbusinessbuilders.com/blog.html for all the
details. Infogoround is a great way to develop your own
adsense cash sites in 20 minutes or less. We'll show you
how to put it all together.
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