how many people believe that it is easy to make money from free articles rather then creative articles
If you're talking about putting free articles on your site, very little when it comes to monetizing for adsense. duplicate content not very favorable. however stick in a newsletter to build a relationship, yeah, I can see that.
I think you'd do better to buy PLR articles and rewrite (or have them rewritten) them so that you can use them for AdSense pages. As BartG mentioned, you won't see much (if any) revenue with duplicate content on your pages. You could use the free articles in an e-zine, but remember that you will be giving links to someone else's Web site. You'd be better off writing your own and linking to your own site so people can buy from you and learn more about your own business instead of someone else's.
I believe that this would be called plagiarism in case you don't give a credit to the real author. Quotation is also an option.
PLR stands for "private label rights" and it means that several people can purchase the same set of articles and use them however they like, within the rights specified by the creator of each package. For example, I am currently completing a PLR article package and I will allow buyers to use the articles in any way they like - Web content, e-books, blog posts, reports, etc. When you buy PLR articles, you are buying the rights to those articles, so there are no plagiarism issues.
There are packs of PLR articles for sale around the web, and they're very popular (I've availalbe on a number of topics if you're interested). The problem with these is just that: they're popular. Loading up websites with the same content as everyone else looks, imho, unprofessional and lazy. Better would be to rewrite to (in most cases!) a much better standard. At least this looks like you've put some effort in! Another alternative are the limited volume PLR packs that are sold to only a few people. This way you can ensure that there are only, say, 5 copies of your articles out there. If you get lucky then noone will see the others, and you've got 'unique' copy for free!
PLR doesn't mean you can do whatever you want. PLR (Private Label Rights) has been around for ages. All it means is you can brand it as your own. What you can and can't do (like rewriting) is up to the creator. So, don't assume that you can do whatever with a PLR article--even though most have "do what you want" licenses. The reason most buyers purchase PLR articles is to get content in the search engines. You can't hide from them unless you're offline. It doesn't matter if you sell 5 or 5,000,000. The first copy gets the credit, the rest don't. So, you have to rewrite them--at least partially--to get SE credit. Of course, doing very limited sets is good for sales.
Well I think making unique content articles are much better then articles which are already in use. As it can get one good traffic if he/she is a good writer.
I've personally made a bit using free articles, but I've approached it from the other end. I gave away a few articles as a promotional deal and ended up with more (paying) work. In fact, I might be doing another promo like that soon...I'll have to think about it. I'd never use free content on my own sites. Even rewriting PLR articles isn't worth it to me. By the time I'm done rewriting one, I could have just written my own from scratch in less time. In a niche I specialize in (family, parenting, pregnancy, teen interest, etc...), I can crank out my own articles in a fraction of the time it takes to think about how to rewrite (and often correct) the writing of others. Plus I'm something of a control freak, so I just prefer taking care of it myself. That being said, I don't run AdSense sites or others that rely more heavily on keywords than quality. There is a place for all kinds of writing styles, but unique is always better.
Its been proven that free articles can not make you money. I own an article directory http://www.constant-content.com At one time we accepted free articles and I had thousands of free articles online. We had adsense displayed on each page... The only articles that made money were the original articles. All the free articles received no traffic what so ever (maybe $1 here and there). Finally I realized free articles were slowing killing the site and banned the free articles all together. As soon as we did our traffic started increasing dramatically. We have since stopped allowing indexing by search engines of our content since we now are only focused on selling original content. We do this to ensure the article is unique and not published anywhere, including our own site.
It's been proven that YOU can't make money with them (and probably many I'm sure). Let's not jump to assumptive conclusions. I agree that there are better ways to make money, but I operated a article directory for two years that was nothing but free article submits and I made far more than $1 here and there. Going exclusive has been the best policy for generations and it's not going to change anytime soon. Yes, you can make money with free stuff, but you'll typically work harder and make much less. As was pointed out above, the move from free to exclusive spiked traffic and earnings.
$1 was a bit of an exaggeration, but there is a reason you don't see many free article directories anymore... For a while every webmaster owned one. I remember "Content Tycoon" being a free article directory before you made a switch to another model. But even when you did make money with free article it was most likely that the article was not published in 100 other places before getting submitted to your free article directory. This was the case with me...
Is this question directed at me as it follows my post? If so, I got paid nothing for the free articles (hence the term "free." ) But the ongoing work I gained from the free articles was at my standard rate - somewhere between $0.07-$0.12 per word depending on the project. Rebecca