EZ Empire Builder Review: Build Huge Database Driven Blogs on Auto
Friday
Feb 26, 2010
Once again I was proved wrong about a new product. I was a naysayer about the new Wordpress Plugin from Bumblesoft, EZ Empire Builder, and the creator Joe Webb, convinced me to test it out and put my money where my mouth is. Unfortunately and fortunately; I ate my words.
EZ Empire builder in theory goes against everything I preach in building Auto Blogs or Auto Posting. In the sales letter it says it can create 10,000 page Wordpress Blogs in a few minutes. My first thought was why? But then I watched the Videos and started playing around with the software and I saw the light of day.
EZ Empire Builder isn’t some SPAM tool as I had originally thought. It is actually the most powerful Wordpress Plugin I have come across in the terms of manipulating content and mass posting. With EZEB you can quickly load any MySQL database, Tab Delimited text file, or CSV File and take the content from those databases and turn them into Wordpress posts. You might say, well there are Plugins that can do that already. With CSV files yes, with the databases, not so many. The thing that stands out here is that you can manipulate the content to do whatever you want with it.
You don’t have to use everything in the database file for each post. You see, EZEB turns your database fields into Template tags. These template tags can then be dragged and dropped into a Posting Template for your Title, Post, Excerpt, and Categories and then you can add your own content to it as well, in any order that you choose to display it. You can then use any other Plugin template tags like phpBay, WP Mage, etc. in your post as well. The true magic is that you can then speed up the process by creating your own custom fields and add in Google Adsense tags, Image tags, or literally anything you can imagine. Clickbank Ads, Ebay Auctions, etc, etc, etc…..
You can do this with any type of database. Affiliate Datafeeds, Recipe Databases, etc. The database only has to be formated as a .sql, Tab del (.txt), or .csv and have fields at the top of each row that describe the contents of each database field and you can use it. Meaning that you can create your own databases easily. Imagine taking the 5000 PLR Articles you want to Auto Post to your Blog and putting all of them into a .CSV or .SQL file (or paying someone on oDesk.com or Freelancer.com $40 to do it for you) and then Auto Posting them to your Blog on a schedule that you want, but with the added Bonus of being able to Monetize these Articles right in the Posting Template before the go live. Add in ANYTHING you want like I said above. No monitzation worries anymore right?
A couple hidden gems are the fact that you can use Spinner syntax in the Posts as well to change content for each and every Post. This Plugin also integrates with Bumblesoft’s other Plugins as well for an enhanced experience in Spinning, Rewriting, and Article Scraping, not to mention Cloaking. That is not all, however, because you can do all of this on a schedule that you set. Meaning, you can decide when to post and how often with the scheduling feature EZEB has and then you can Preview how your Post will look long before you have to worry about Posting.
Take a look at the Video I created of me using EZ Empire Builder and you will see what I mean: (the video is in HD, so watch it Full Screen for the Best view possible)
*One small error in my Video: Where I say to add 1-4 Posts, I should have said 1000 to 4000 Posts. You can drip feed these Posts, but you want to put as many as possible into the Posting queue.
Now that you have seen the inside of EZ Empire Builder, you can see that the possibilities are endless of what you can do with this super Wordpress Plugin. I was lucky enough to be given the chance to change my mind about it and since I groveled some more, Joe was kind enough to let me offer my Blog Visitors a 15% OFF Coupon Code for EZ Empire Builder.
Just Click on this Link (EZ Empire Builder), Click on the Purchase Link, and Enter the Coupon Code Listed Below.
For 15% OFF, Coupon Code: BHS15
Please post your Comments and ask questions below.
Magic Article Rewriter Review: Compare to The Best Spinner
Tuesday
Feb 16, 2010
Just over 2 weeks ago I had an opportunity to try a new Article Spinner. It was called The Best Spinner. The boys over at SENuke were promoting it and the website and video gives you a lot of reasons why it is supposed to b the “Best Spinner”, but after trying it out, I have to say it is far from being the Best Article Spinner I have used.
A little known software programmer named Alexander Krulik, who is not a “Marketer”, but purely a software guy, created a program called the Magic Article Rewriter. I was first convinced t try this about 4-5 months ago, right after I Reviewed the very good Mass Article Control program. At first I had a few problems with the software and I was impressed with the features, but the small errors I would receive really bothered me. These errors were corrected quickly by Alexander and now Magic Article Rewriter is on Version 1.8 and it rocks!
All of the “New” features that the newly launched “The Best Spinner” has, Magic Article Rewriter has had for awhile or just added as well. One of the key features for enhanced Article Spinning or Rewriting is the ability to have nested spinning, which means that you can go several layers deep into not just single words, but sentences and paragraphs as well. Magic Article Rewriter does this and does it better than The Best Spinner and Mass Article Control.
MAR also has the ability to create TOKENS. TOKENS are nothing but words that you create predefined synonyms for and then you can automatically choose form your TOKEN database and quickly modify words in your article quickly. You can also do this automatically as well. Yes, you can easily click on one button and every TOKEN that is in your article will be activated, thus spinning the entire article for you in seconds. The great thing about this is that Alexander knows how hard it is to create a large amount of TOKENS, so he has created a databased of common TOKENS that you can download as well. You can get at least a 40-50% unique rate out of an article with this TOKEN database with just one click! No other article spinner has this built in as well. Plus, with the nested feature, you can use this feature before or after you have spun sentences and paragraphs as well, doubling your article’s unique factor!
There are literally so many features in Magic Article Rewriter that I can’t possibly go over them all. I planned on creating a video for this Review, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet, in the meantime, check out Alexander’s video he created that shows the features in Version 1.8 below:
I have now moved to using this Spinner almost exclusively. The Best Spinner is advertised to be able to use whatever spinner syntax is needed to use in different programs like SENuke. Magic Article Rewriter has done this for awhile and it has multiple formats that can be used automatically. Just click on the options and select the format you want and it will format your Spun article the way you need it instantly. This can be used with SENuke, the Unique Article Wizard, or the Magic Article Submitter, which can be purchased as a companion product with the Magic Article Rewriter.
Alexander’s website isn’t the greatest ever built and he might speak English as a second language, but the guy can write software. This is a programming masterpiece and for the price ($47 with Free Upgrades for Life), you can’t beat it.
Take a look at this Article Spinner and I guarantee you won’t need to buy another.
Check it out here: Magic Article Rewriter
SocialBot Review: Auto Social Bookmarking at a Great Price!
Sunday
Oct 18, 2009
I was asked recently what I thought about SocialBot and a few other programs from IncanSoft. I had never used the programs, but the one program I have had a lot of Review requests for was SocialBot, their Auto Social Bookmarking Tool. That being said, I thought I would give it a try.
When I first got to the website I was not impressed with the copy and the low price of $24.95 made me skeptical right away. I didn’t think that anything priced at $24.95 was going to be worth my time. I am a big fan of Bookmarking Demon as many of you already know and I didn’t think that this program was going to be worth my time.
I was wrong.
After downloading the program I installed it to find that it has a very nice licensing and registration system. I then read through the very complete and thorough PDF Manual that comes with it (which I highly recommend) to find that this little software program isn’t little after all and it is quite powerful.
On the site they claim to submit to 88 sites which are your main Social Bookmarking sites like Digg, Newsvine, Mixx and the like. The reality is that they submit to the biggies, but then leave open the option for you to add in an unlimited number of Scuttle and Scuttle Plus Social Bookmarking sites. Something I like very much.
The thing I was looking for more than anything was whether this program would automatically setup your login and password for the Social Bookmarking sites it submits to. The answer is yes and no. It will auto create most of the accounts for you, but you have to complete the signup processes. It fills in the forms for you and makes a rather quick process. Not perfect, but for $24.95 it is more than good enough. You can create an unlimited number of Profiles, so you can easily have any number of different accounts and Bookmarking niches setup with this program
Then I was looking for the ability to Spider my sites so it could Bookmark all of my different site’s pages and the answer here was a big Yes! SocialBot has a Spider that will collect every page on any site you want and then you can decide what pages it submits to or you can just set it on auto and selct the percentage of pages you want Bookmarked for that particular site. A great feature.
SocialBot aslo has the ability to accept Spinner Articles. This helps when submitting descriptions and titles to tons of different Social Bookmarking sites. Now with this tool all of your titles and descriptions can be different without much effort on your part.
Is this program quite as powerful as Bookmarking Demon? No. But is it a more than viable alternative when you are looking for an economical solution that will work. Hell Yes! This program will blow you away with the features and these guys provide fantastic support.
Check out SocialBot here: SocialBot
Building a Backlinking Strategy: A Plan for SEO Success
Monday
Sep 21, 2009
I get asked here all the time why I am so successful at getting my sites into the Top 3 listings on Google for their chosen keywords. I use most of the Software that I Review and often get asked how I use each one in my overall Backlinking Strategy for SEO. I thought I would provide you all with the basic plan of action I use for succeeding with all of my sites.
1. Keywords
Your keyword selection is the most important thing you have to figure out. I spend more time in keyword research than I do in deciding where I am going to promote my sites. I use Market Samurai almost exclusively when I am researching keywords, but you can get the exact same information through the Google External Keyword Tool for Free.
For example, if I am working on a site that is in the Weight Loss niche, I first do a base search on Weight Loss. What you find is that there is way too much competition in the Weight Loss niche to try to compete for the base keywords themselves, so I focus on keywords that are low competion that still bring in a decent number of searches per month. I like my keywords to have a minimum of 1000 searches per month. I then choose 4 that relate closely to my target site. For example: simply weight loss, slimming weight loss, fastest weight loss, and best weight loss programs.
Now that I have my keywords, I place each one in the Google Search tool again and see all of the related keywords that go with them. I now create my website pages, reviews, articles, and social bookmarking blurbs. All of these either have the keywords in them and they have the related keywords. I like to have a 2-3% keyword density for all of the base keywords I use on each page. You can check this at KeywordDensity.com. Don’t answer the question to your overall subject in your offsite promotional articles. Use the articles to push visitors to the answer to their questions or where they can get more information on your main site.
2. Article Spinning
I now take all of the articles that I wrote and I spin them with the Mass Article Creator (from Mass Aricle Control) and the Magic Article Rewriter. I like the Mass Article Creator to setup my articles for submission through the Unique Article Wizard (UAW). It formats my articles and spins my phrases and sentences perfectly for UAW. This is not the only way to do this this is just my way. I then use the Magic Article ReWriter to prep my articles for SENuke (my SEO Backlink software tool). The Magic Article ReWriter will format my articles exactly the way SENuke wants them (it will format your spun article with the {|} formatting required in the SENuke spinner. Yes, SENuke has a Rewriter, but I don’t think it is the strong suit of SENuke, so I use better tools becauseI can afford to.
Once this is all done and prepped, I get ready for my initial submission processes.
3. Unique Article Wizard & Social Bookmarking
I now submit a few of my site’s pages, to include the Home Page, to about 20 of the Top Social Bookmarking sites. I pay particular attention to Digg, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Reddit, and I also push the URL’s through Twitter on my main account. Usually, this alone will have my site indexed in Google, sometimes within a few hours if I am submitting a blog or about 48-72 hours for an HTML/ PHP site. This is all done using all of the Keyword Phrases I developed in Step 1, each used with a different URL where the keyword is the most applicable to your Page’s content.
I have by now created a minimum of one article for each keyword phrase. I have 4 spun copies of each article built specificlly for the Unique Article Wizard. Each set of articles for each keyword is used for one submission in UAW. Once I complete the submission process for all of my articles, I can now expect to push the specific keyword anchor text I created to over 1000 sites with just this method. I use the spin feature in UAW to ensure I cycle through my 4 keyword anchor text phrases across each article, so I spread all of the keywords across all of the articles. If the site wasn’t indexed by Google before, with this step I am almost definitely in after 1 or 2 days. The UAW submissions will actually grow your backlinks over time and not all at once. This is one of the bigger benefits of using UAW as opposed to a traditional Article Submission service.
Here is the key though: I do not link to the home page of my site with the Keyword Anchor Text at all through the UAW process. I link to pages within my site in order to build strength within my site and not just drive traffic to my home page. For this to work, you have to ensure that you link all of your pages within your sites together, preferrably with a Silo type structure. Additional random linking also helps, like if you use the Simple tags Plugin for Wordpress sites, which will link your blog posts together with tag links randomly.
4. Wait a week or so.
Yes, I wait. I don’t want to saturate Google with Backinks right off the bat. I will submit Articles to EzineArticles and GoArticles during this time, but that is about it. These 2 Article Directories can be submitted to through SEnuke too, but I usually submit to them individually. They are powerhouse article directories which will bring in a ton of traffic if you do things right. Focus on your main keywords for these sites. If you need to use your home page for these sites due to your site having limited content, these are the directories that will maximize your link building efforts. These Article Directories should receive your best Articles outside of your site’s actual content. If you follow up with additional submissions later, focus on articles with content just over the minimum in order to push traffic to your site.
5. SENuke
SENuke is my Primary Tool for High PR SEO Backlink Building. I now load up my SENuke specific articles and get to promoting through all of the Web 2.0 sites and Article Directories that SENuke offers. I do not submit to EzineArticles and GoArticles as I already did that in my previous step. I have at least 5 articles setup for each keyword phrase at this point from my article spinning session I talked about in Step 2. In SENuke I have created 5 profiles for this specific niche already, so now I will submit one article through each Profile with a separate keyword focus for each. I do the same with the Social Bookmarking section of SENuke and the High PR Profile submission section. This entire process usually takes me about a week or two. I don’t rush it and to be honest, even with the automation of SENuke, it takes awhile and I am usually working on other sites and projects while this is being done. It is important when you create Projects like this, that you Plan accordingly. Project Management is key so you can keep this going for multiple projects at the same time. If you haven’t used SENuke, or want more information on SENuke, you can see my Review which has Video on how to use it and it’s capabilities here.
I only just started using this a month or so ago. The great thing about this software is it allows you to use WPMU, Blogger, Pligg, and Tumblr to maximize backlinking. I think I have added about 40,000 backlinks to all of my sites together using this software over the last month. It doesn’t have the site range you may want, but it is a great compliment to SENuke. It doesn’t always work great (updates are constant), but when it does, it is fantastic. I use some of the same articles I have already spun from Mass Article Creator for this and it works great. I have been using this constantly for all of my sites, so I don’t have a good timeline for it’s use, but for any type of SEO promotion work you do, SPAM is not an option. You have to be smart, More is not always better. If you have a huge spike in backlinks over a few days for one site, you will see your rank climb and then suddenly fall. Google is always watching. For more information on what Link Farm Evolution can do, see my video review here.
7. Directory Submissions
By now about a month has gone by. I now like to move on to other things in order to not focus on just one or two sites. I now look at submitting my sites to a bunch of High PR SEO Friendly Web Directories. I do this through Directory Maximizer which allows me to space out my submissions over several weeks and I can choose 4 or 5 Keyword (Title) Variations and Descriptions and they do the submitting for me for a small $0.14 per directory fee. This isn’t the only option for Directory Submissions. The Warrior Forum provides great Special Offers for Directory Submissions from time to time. Directory Maximizer is very convenient to use and it works very well.
8. Social Bookmarking and High PR Links
I now also use a Social Bookmarking service I purchase through the Warrior Forum Special Offer section and I also use a High PR link building service from Angela Edwards there as well which gives me 30 links per month. Both services cost me about $100 total each month for each set of keywords I promote. Like I said before, I do it because I can afford to. Having them do it saves me time and money so I can focus on other aspects of my business. In fact, I normally don’t even write most of my own articles anymore, but I do still do all of my own Article Spinning.
Last Step: Use Analytics, Stats, and Do it Again
Now it is time to evaluate what you have done, which you should be doing from the start actually. Keep track of your stats and see what is working and what isn’t. Make changes, add new keywords, promote new links in your site, etc. Wash, rinse, repeat. Do it all over again with new stuff and you will dominate the Niche you are working on taking over. With low competition niches, this method described above might do it by itself. If not, keep adding new articles through the whole process. Track your backlinks, track your traffic, and track where you stand for the keywords you chose.
Here is the Key takeaway from all of this: Using the keywords that are close to your main keyword should now give you residual traffic from your main keyword. It should also push you up the ranks for the main keyword. Most people don’t type the words: “weight loss” into Google. The type keywords that relate to their problems or what the want to figure out, like “how can I achieve weight loss fast”. That is why you will still suceed.
This all works and it works well. You should end up with a few thousand backlinks after using this process and they will have good range from High PR to low which makes your backlinking look natural. You can see that by doing this, you can move ahead of the rest in the pack. If you just saturate the web with backlinks to random keywords and focus just on your home page, you will not get even close to the results that you can with this method. I know that most webmasters don’t use these techniques because I routinely jump to the Top 3 in almost any Niche I choose. I was in either the Top spot or within 2-4 slots from Number 1 in Google during the massive Commission Blueprint 2 Product Launch last week in which I made over $10,000 in Affiliate Sales between 3 Clickbank Accounts.
Lastly: I always get asked about how much website traffic my methods generate. There is no simple answer for this because it is all based on the keywords you select, the quality of your articles (I could write an entire Blog Post on just this), and how much competition there is in the Niche you are in (which goes back to keywords again). If you choose a tight niche where you can dominate 4 Keyword Phrases that generate 4000 searches per month, you can expect at least 2000 -3000 hits from those Searches if you are number #1 with a good Title. After that it goes down substantially. If you can dominate 4 Keyword Phrases that generate 10,000 Searches per month, you can see what you may get with that. If you don’t research your Keywords and see what people are searching for, you have already failed.
Plan to Suceed and you will.
UPDATE: I was emailed fairly quickly by a buddy of mine who reminded me that I forgot to mention a Social Bookmarking tool that I use daily, but do not use at the same time. I used to use Bookmarking Demon as my tool to get indexed fast. I still do when I am pushing a fast affiliate promotion. Laziness has driven me to outsource. I still use Bookmarking Demon (I have for over 3 years), but I use it more for the Randomization features it has in Version 4 than anything else. It constantly keeps my sites in their positions and it keeps me from having to write a ton of articles to keep my sites in their positions. I am sorry I forgot and I feel like I slighted those who I have told for years that this was an essential tool in building backlinks and driving quick bursts of traffic to my sites. I load up Bookmarking Demon and then let it run in the background while I do other things. I am constantly promoting with it, but it is not my Primary tool if you know what I mean.
Let me know if this helps for those of you that have been asking. I will be happy to answer your Questions in the Comment Section Below.
WP Spinner Review: Wordpress Unique Content Plugin
Friday
Sep 26, 2008
I purchased the WP Spinner Wordpress Plugin a little while ago, but only realized I hadn’t uploaded it or attempted to use it until about 10 days ago. The reason I suddenly remembered it was because I found that I was being hijacked again on this blog.
Proxy Hijacking is fairly common with Black Hat SEO masters who basically copy your Blog’s content, pass it off as their own, and make the Search Engines think it’s their content, not yours, and you then lose your Pagerank or listing rank in the SERPs. I was hit for the second time in two days and I remembered that I had purchased the WP Spinner Plugin just for the purpose of preventing this from happening.
While this blog talks about Black Hat methods and software, it is a White Hat Blog. This site dominates many of Google’s top listings for tons of keywords relating to Black Hat and White Hat SEO Software listed on this site. So of course, I am going to take some shots from the competition. In fact, in my AWSTATS program I see that Keyword Spy has been doing quite a bit of work on my site. Competitors hate my high rankings, so I set out to alleviate the problem. WP Spinner was my answer to this problem.
I love this program. It is rather time consuming to set up, but once you do, you get two benefits from it. First, your site content is never the same. Every time a search engine or person comes to the site, the content appears different and updated, giving you more GoogleBot visits and link power. Secondly, this program has now given me my own Article Spinner which spins unique content for me daily. I have been submitting my new unique articles through the Article Submitter with the Unique Article Wizard, basically giving me thousands of unique articles, spread across the web, pointing backlinks back at this site. So now, even if someone tries to hijack an article here, they are not getting the original. They are just grabbing one copy of thousands created with WP Spinner. I have also added a nice touch to the Plugin which will remain my little secret, but it keeps the articles on the pages looking the same for visitors, but it varies the articles for the most common search engine spiders. You can ge the information on how to modify your WP Spinner at the Black Hat Forums. it takes about 5 minutes.
So, if you want to avoid duplicate content on your Wordpress Blog or if you have problems with Proxy Hijacking of your valuable content, I highly recommend adding this Wordpress Plugin in order to maintain and improve your Search Engine ranking.
For more information, go to WP Spinner.
The Content Solution and Content Club Review
Friday
Apr 11, 2008
As you may already know, I am a big fan of HalfAgain products. The main reason is the integration and formulation of a methodology for how they work together to achieve exactly what you want from a Black Hat Software set of products. You want to have your website builder for your money sites (RSS Evolution), your RSS Manipulator for unique feeds (RSS Magician), and your Blog Creator to create your link bait for your money sites (The Blog Solution). They have them all and they work perfectly together. I use them almost every other day in one fashion or another. Building, linking, and promoting.
Over a year ago, they released The Content Solution and they followed it up with the Content Club. Both of these products have like qualities, but yet are very different and I am going to tell you why it is important to know the difference, before you waste your money on something you don’t need.
First, you have to recognize why they created these products. Primarily because of Google. Google has been hard on sites which do not have unique content. Footprints are another issue which has already been taken care of in RSS Evolution and The Blog Solution (Ver. 4.0), but unique content is tough to come by unless you want to pay for it. With both of these products, you have the ability to create thousands of unique pages of content for one price. But that is where the similarities stop.
The Content Solution is just that. When I first purchased it I was so confused and frustrated with it that I almost asked for my money back. What I didn’t realize was how powerful a program this really was. I went to the help site and watched the videos on how to use it and then I realized how easy it really was. Definitely watch the videos!!
I began pumping out thousands of unique articles with the program. Then I found that with the LSA feature you can interlink your articles just like The Blog Solution. It interlinks your articles, based on your input, and uses the keyword “Anchor Text” that you want to make this more than just a content wizard of sorts, it also builds content you can use. Once you create a niche project in it, you can then create unique RSS Feeds from these articles and drip them into your money sites built with RSS Evolution and the Blog Solution. You can do it on any niche you want, with unlimited results. If you want even more power over this to create intermixed RSS Feeds, making your sites unbelievably unique, you add RSS Magician to the mix and your money sites and blogs will double their traffic and profitablility. I am giving away some tradecraft here, but it just makes so much sense! Unique Content, built the way you want it, with even more options than I want to get into here, and you can eventually make the same kind of money I am right now. Easy.
The Content Club on the other hand is a little bit of a different animal. With the Content Solution, you can scrape any website you want for articles and content. With the Content Club, the articles are provided for you on a monthly basis. It is really the ultimate in PLR Articles membership sites.
They keep the membership at 300 members and occasionally open it up when a few slots become available. 500 articles on various niches are provided and then made unique with a Content Solution type tool. Here is the kicker. You get RSS Evolution for free with your membership and a free 3 Site License of the Blog Solution. So it basically provides you with all of the tools you need to create money sites with unique content and build link bait for them with thousands of blogs from your Blog Solution sites. A great product.
Both the Content Solution and Content Club have tons of addtional features I have not listed here, but my assessment is clear on the entire product line, it is definitely the best in the business and I invite your comments here to prove to me otherwise. My only caveat is this: Buy the Content Solution if you have specific niches that you want to work with. If you are flexible and like the idea of promoting multiple niches (which you should), then the Content Club is for you. Either way, you win.
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