Well, since someone mentioned they liked my reviews… A few weeks I bought resale rights to a report by the Rhodes Brothers called How to Quickly and Easily Get “.edu” Backlinks. I had some good feedback from my readers on it and the little bonus I threw in with the report. So I’ve kept my eye out for other things from the Rhodes Brothers that might interest my readership. (And me!) Here’s my take on their EzineArticles Domination reports along with the special bonus I’ve created especially for my readers… (that’s one of the little projects that’s kept me quiet over the last few days…)
Crush, Kill, and Destroy: EzineArticles Domination
EzineArticles.com is a site I’ve mentioned before, the last time in Articles 101: Writing Articles For Traffic And Profit. Article marketing is a great tool for directing targeted traffic to your sites. Almost everyone who does article marketing publishes an article or two on EzineArticles (though there are exceptions — the top author that site has published over 11,000 articles!).
One of the reasons that EzineArticles is such a popular venue is that Google seems to really like the site and many of its articles rank in the top 10 results (the sweet spot) for relevant search terms, sometimes even beating out the Wikipedia entries for the same terms. The article $1 Million in Google AdSense Earnings ranks #7 for “adsense earnings“, for example, while 7 Powerful Ways To Make Money From AdSense Using Only Free Tools ranks #3 for “making money with AdSense“. Not every article ranks well like this, but enough articles do to make EzineArticles a favorite site for writers and marketers. But what if you could almost guarantee a top 10 ranking for your article?
That’s the premise of the Rhodes Brothers’ Crush, Kill, and Destroy: EzineArticles Domination report, along with its sequel EzineArticles Domination Part II: Author Bio Box Domination. Together, the reports describe techniques you can use to dominate (take over) high-ranking articles with your own material. I can’t say much more without giving away everything, but the techniques aren’t complicated and can be done by anyone with some time on their hands and the willingness to write some articles. These are not long reports: the first one is 14 pages long, the second is only 10 pages. They’re very focused and detailed, and the writing is very clear. If you’re an EzineArticles contributor or thinking of doing some article marketing, I recommend you read the first report at least.
EzineDominator
I’ve started using the “EzineArticles Domination” techniques, and in fact that article I mentioned over the weeked — How To Make Money With Google AdSense applies the techniques from both reports, although not perfectly. What I didn’t like about the domination technique is that finding articles to dominate is very labor-intensive. I sped the process up somewhat by using Keyword Elite, but even then there was a lot of manual work involved.
Since I’m a better programmer than a marketer, I decided to write myself a little tool to find the articles that matched the “EzineArticles Domination” criteria. My first cut was a console-based application, which is fine for me but not for many people. With the encouragement of the Rhodes Brothers (who I contacted after building the first version of the tool), I built a simple user interface for the tool, now called EzineDominator. Here’s what it looks like:
This tool makes finding the right articles almost trivial. All I do now is fire up Keyword Elite, generate myself a large list of keywords, export those keywords to a text file, and run it through my tool. An HTML report (not shown here) is generated automatically with links to the articles that meet the domination criteria. I then load the report into my browser and look through the results, easily clicking over to EzineArticles to see the matching articles to decide which one to start with. It saves me a lot of grunt work!
If this tool interests you, you can purchase EzineDominator for only $10. The tool is written in Java and so runs on pretty much any computer — Windows, Macintosh, Linux. All you have to do is install Java (it’s free). Complete instructions for installing and using the tool are included.
Given how useful this tool’s been to me, I’m looking to automate some of the other mundane and time-intensive things I’ve done. Maybe a tool to find the right pages to which to apply the AdWords180 technique would be useful to others? Or maybe some simple keyword manipulation tools for those who don’t want to fork out the money for Keyword Elite? I’m open to suggestions — especially from the Mac crowd, who probably feel left out because everyone seems to be writing Windows-only tools these days. Drop me a note or leave a comment if you have some ideas or requirements.
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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.
Eric,
There is a tool out there already for finding pages to target for AdWords180, and it’s excellent. Drop me a note if you’re not familiar with it.
I do like the stuff you write though, so it would be interesting to see what you come up with. Keep up the great work!
Ted
Yes, I’m familiar with a couple of tools for the AdWrods180 method already. But that doesn’t meant I can’t write one that’s better
I’ve released a new version of the tool to existing purchasers (new ones also get it, obviously) that allows you to search other Google sites like “google.ca” or “google.co.uk” as well. Even more reason to purchase the package
BTW, if you already own the EzineArticles Domination reports and would like the tool, just contact me and we can arrange something.
I’ve also found article marketing to be a great marketing method, and EzineArticles to be one of the best article sites. Your tool sounds really interesting.
I like the EzineArticles Domination technique, although I’m just trying it out myself so I’ll let you know how well it works… but the technique was kind of laborious, hence the tool….