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Let’s be honest here - when it comes to writing articles, most of us do our research online. Of course, ordinarily we would cite our sources by providing links to the websites where we found the information in the first place. Unfortunately, when it comes to PLR jobs - and, in 99% cases, if you’re writing for someone else, it will be a PLR job - the client will not appreciate a product cluttered with links to sites other than their own. Every such link is another opportunity for the reader to go somewhere other than the client’s site, therefore defeating the whole purpose of an engaging and informative article in the first place.

On the other hand, if you are not citing your sources - and, as a PLR writer, you’re forced not to - then you’re effectively exposing yourself to accusations of plagiarism. One way to avoid it is to “mix up” the information a little bit by using multiple sources. However, what do you do when there’s only one source on the topic you are writing? How do you avoid plagiarizing the work, since there’s only so much content you can write and so many ways in which you can write it?

The best way to avoid this danger is by taking notes. Read the site first and note all the information you find relevant, preferably in your own words. Once you feel you have everything you need to start writing, close the website and refer exclusively to your notes. This will force you to write everything in your own words and you will no longer subconsciously copy the writing style of the website. You can further reduce the risk by rearranging the logical sequence of your notes - in other words, by avoiding using the same content structure (Point A followed by Point B followed by Point C) and instead replacing it with your own (Point D followed by Point A followed by Point C - you get the idea).

Of course, none of this will change the fact that you are effectively engaging in plagiarism (since it is defined as using any ideas that you found in other works without citing your sources) - but it will, at the very least, help you cover your tracks a little bit. Plagiarism is an unfortunate but inevitable part of life for every PLR writer, and it is probably the only part of article writing that I genuinely loathe.