I like the idea of private label products which you can alter and improve and maybe add a pen name to but the concerns above are real ones and integrity or honesty is right at the heart of them.

Private label articles are all over the internet now and are causing replication problems for those who use them. Neither article directories nor the search engines like duplicate content. They obviously do not want to send visitors to content which they have already read.

Some software is available which claims to be able to turn one article into a hundred different articles. I have not yet tried these out. Maybe there is an honest solution there.

At the moment, I prefer to write my own articles and have never claimed to have written an article by someone else. I would not feel happy doing so. Perhaps, I'm missing something?

The temptation to take shortcuts is at the heart of integrity. Usually, the honest way takes longer but if you take the high road of integrity and I take the low road of dishonesty, you will be in the promised land of sustainable internet success before me.