Review: Exclusive PLR Websites

As promised, we're getting back to the PLR AdSense mini-site discussion. Rather than continue the discussion directly, however, we're going to take a little detour with a review of a PLR membership site that I actually like.

Exclusive PLR Websites

The membership site is Exclusive PLR Websites, which I'll refer to as EPW for most of this review. For $37/month EPW members get access to 8 new niche PLR websites each month. You can make any changes you want to the PLR websites, the only restriction is that you can't resell the sites. (There is a reseller program available for those who are interested in selling sites — what's good about the reseller program is that the sites given to the resellers are different from the sites given to the non-resellers.)

When you join EPR, you're placed into a “group”. Each group gets a separate set of 8 websites and membership is limited to 50 people per group. This ensures that there aren't too many versions of the same websites floating around on the Internet.

Now, what I like about EPR is the quality of the websites. I've deployed a sample site about AdSense for your perusal. I only made a few modifications to it: I changed “Adsense” to “AdSense” (OK, I'm picky, but so many marketers get the capitalization of AdSense wrong and it just drives me nuts…), inserted my AdSense publisher ID, and changed the footer slightly. But other than that, the site is au naturel.

Each site comes with five pages of PLR content, which is not a lot of content, I admit. But this isn't a PLR content membership site, it's a PLR website membership site — different focus. You are expected to customize and improve the sites you get — they're starting points for new AdSense sites. You're free to use the content as you wish, including creating articles and ebooks out of it. My suggestion is to rewrite the content to make it your own, of course.

Now, EPW may not seem very exceptional at this point, but here's where the quality really shines through. Unlike most pre-built sites or templates I've come across, all EPW sites are built using clean HTML (search engine optimized, too) with CSS stylesheets. What's even better, the pages are modularized using PHP includes. The AdSense ad blocks, for example, are separate PHP files. So inserting your publisher ID into the AdSense ad block is a matter of hitting one or two files. Look-and-feel changes are made by editing the CSS stylesheet and/or the header and footer files.

Let me show you what I mean. When you download a site to your computer, this is what a typical site looks like unzipped:

As you can see, each page of content is a PHP file. Common elements, like the ad blocks, are found in separate files in the inc folder:

This is nothing new to a web geek, of course, but it's surprising how many of the pre-built sites go out of their way to make it hard for you to change things.

Now if you don't know PHP from alphabet soup, don't worry, full instructions are given as to how to modify the appropriate files. Trust me, you can do this.

There are also some great resources included with your membership. Here's what you see when you login to your EPW account:

As you can see, the site is well-organized and complete. There's a “How To Use Your Sites” guide (in HTML and PDF) that walks your through all the steps necessary to use the niche sites you get with your membership. There's a comprehensive set of webmaster resources. A pile of free ebooks on all sorts of online marketing topics. I think someone just starting out will find that there's a lot of useful material here to learn from.

I actually sent a recommendation for Exclusive PLR Websites to my mailing list a few days ago, and at least one reader has subscribed to the site and although I can't quote him exactly because I misplaced the email, he told me that he was able to take one of the sites and change it quite easily even though he knows nothing about PHP.

I'm not saying that EPW is perfect or that it's for everyone. If you're a geek, you should able to create your own templating system to crank out the sites, in which case you should be looking for raw content sources. And if you don't have the time necessary to customize and improve the sites you get, don't bother joining this or any similar site — you'll just be wasting your money.

That does it for the review, drop me a line if you have more questions. I'm going to continue the PLR series, using one or two of the EPW sites for example purposes.

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Eric Giguere is the author of Uncommon AdSense and the award-nominated (that just means it lost!) blog Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense.

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