BruteForce SEO Next Round: Creates Content, Scrapes eBay

No mere update but a complete rewrite, making it, among other things, Vista 64 compatible, faster and more reliable - that's what Peter Drew, creator of BruteForce SEO has announced now.

Here are some of the new features:

1. BruteForce SEO now supplies content - content, moreover, that's infinitely reusable without provoking any duplicate content issues. You can use other's articles (e.g. from article directories, PLR content or your own, no sweat.


2. Currently 95% completed: the BruteForce Social Bookmarking Submission Tool.


3. Gold Digger Niche Research Tool: Will now feature the Top 1000 Searches on eBay for each day - an invaluable feature if you're an eBay affiliate and/or to find out what people are really buying rather than relying on mere search engine keyword stats.

It's getting more expensive, too, so if you're interested at all, now is the time to sign up to safeguard against further price hikes.

Of course, our regular readers are familiar with this application as we've blogged about it before, see:

Google Results with BruteForceSEO: 60% Page #1 Domination!

Two Kick-Ass Link Building Tools

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Two Data Mining Tools that Will Boost Your Profits

Once you actually get serious about Internet commerce, you'll soon realize that while all of it is indeed about sales in one form or another, the Royal Road to success isn't about short term profits (aka the "fast buck") at all. Rather, it's about effective data mining, because that's where the real money is. If in doubt, take a closer look at Google - they're doing it to the tune of umpteen billion dollars a year. Hard to argue with that.

You see, it's about your customers, readers, visitors: if you can get them to tell you what they want, what their pain is, what they're running away from and what their main interests and yearnings are.

At the end of the day, most if not all successful marketing will focus on relief or, at the very least, on the promise of such: How can this product/service help me get along better in life? What kind of burden can it take off my shoulders - as an entrepreneur, as a marketer, as an SEO, as a golfer, as a mother, as a lover, whatever? (In the copy writers universe it was the inimitable "shitweasel" Gary Halbert†, I believe, who coined the phrase "starving crowds" and taught us all how to push this concept to the limits and make them all happy, bless him.)

There's a lot of mystique surrounding data mining these days, but when all is said and done it's simply about getting to know your customers, prospects, leads, subscribers, visitors. The more you know about them, both individually and as a collective, the easier it will be to laser target your promotion, zeroing in on what your markets actually want, rather than chasing some fond delusions based on your own gut feelings or "intuition". (To be sure, intuition has its place in life, but data mining is certainly not one of them!) No point in trying to hawk the proverbial refrigerators to Eskimos (oops, sorry: Inuit, to keep this 100% pc...) or attempting to sell lipstick to your average construction bear.

While all of this is fairly obvious and based on simple common sense, pinpointing the tools to actually help you learn as much about your clientele as you reasonably can, is quite another matter. Not only that there's so many of them around - as a savvy marketer you'll probably be loath to fall victim to one of your peers' hard sell tactics. (Hey, it happens all the time, and yours truly is certainly no exception - but that's no reason to actually like what's going on, either...)

One major way of soliciting visitor or client feedback is, of course, running surveys on your site. While their answers may not always be entirely truthful (especially when you ask them about your products' pricing, heh), if you do it right it can be pure gold. And save you tons of advertising failures in one stride as well.

However, most survey software and services really suck: They're a pain to set up, an even greater hassle to maintain, and if you're using third party stuff be prepared to pay through your nose for it. That's probably the #1 reason why most web sites will only run surveys as a one-off operation, if at all.

By contrast, here's a tool that will help you no end in cutting down the entire process to its essentials. It lets you focus on your survey goals, structure, set of questions etc. rather than encumbering you with tons of setup and tech issues.

It will be launched tomorrow at 12 Eastern and only the first 500 buyers are in for a special price. So check out the 5 min demo pre-launch video here: Instant Form Pro

And while we're at it, this is another tool that can help you blow up your signup rates by 25% or more, endorsed by the likes of Michel Fortin and many of the other big boys of copy writing and Internet marketing. Don't miss out on it - for (currently) $27 it's a positive steal: Action PopUp

Combine the two any which way, and what you'll get is a positive killer setup to drive your data mining efforts through the roof!

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8 Article Spinner Tools

Mass content generation being so many webmasters' downright nemesis, we'll continue our series of SEO tools overviews with a list of content generators. It's not comprehensive: can't rule out that I may have missed one or two other good ones here, though very many we've checked out are anything but recommendable, typically due to shoddy programming, unusable kludgy interfaces, bullshit claims, blatant overpricing, etc. (Note that this is not to say that anything missing here falls by default into that category! If this should affect one of your favorite applications, please see note below.)

ContentMania

Wordflood

Power Article Rewriter

Writer Cash

For mass generation, there used to be ArticleBot (currently closed though operational, arguably the most powerful tool out there, but featuring an extremely high learning curve...), so your best bet would probably be one or several of the following:

Jetspinner

Instant Article Wizard Pro

Unique Article Wizard

Website Content Wizard

To dig a bit into the theory and practical handling of content spinning, speed writing and upscaling text generation (not usually autogenned but semi-automated), I'd recommend this tutorial (it's fairly basic, but that's not necessarily a bad thing):

Speed Writing

None of these are decidedly "black hat" tools i.e. they don't scrape content and/or markov it: if used properly, they'll help you create readable and genuine content that's varied enough not to run you into any trouble with the search engines.

Note: If you're a developer of article spinning software and I've missed mentioning your super duper best-thing-since-slice-bread tool here, drop me a line and I'll look into it. No promises, as we won't ever compromise our (and our readers') stringent quality standards, but if it's really as good as you think, we'll be happy to add it to the list.

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Nifty SEO Tools to Check Out - 1

What with the onslaught of purportedly super duper product launches hitting our inboxes 24/7 these days, simply keeping track is becoming a daunting chore, not to mention separating the wheat from the chaff.

Here's a few we've found decidedly useful, promising (at least) and well worth checking out. Your mileage may vary, of course, and what's good for the goose need certainly not be good for the gander in search marketing: far too many different business models, SEM strategies, web site setups and fundamental targets involved to realistically expect a one-size-fits-all solution. This said, here goes.

We've discussed Peter Drew's BruteForceSEO program twice on this blog already, namely here: Brute Force SEO Video - the Fight Club Angle and, featuring first results, here again: Google Results with BruteForceSEO: 60% Page #1 Domination! so it doesn't really require another introduction.

The initial 1,000 slots were sold out fast. This was a $1 test run for a week, so it didn't really come as a big surprise, but retention after that was a stately 60% which is quite good.

Now, the program is being relaunched in about seven hours' time (as of writing this) to fill the remaining 400 slots though at a slightly higher price. Again, you'll start off with a 7 day trial for a buck, after which monthly subscription is $147. If you haven't had a bash at it yet, do go for it here: BruteForceSEO.

Like with most of Peter Drew's scripts, you'll have to live with the bugs and a fairly eccentric how-to documentation in tidbits spread across just about everywhere. In our experience, the bugs will actually get sorted out over time, technical support's very helpful and usually quite speedy (unless overwhelmed by the initial launch onslaught), and the user forum camaraderie is quite genuine and well worth participation as well, especially for Internet marketing newbies. But it does tend to test your patience more than you may care for on occasion.

Tip for affiliate marketers: You may also want to look into signing up for the BruteForce SEO Affiliate program. Sure, it costs a buck to join up which many people don't like one bit (long story...), but conversions are pretty decent and payments are instant via PayPal, so overall it may well be worth it if you have a web site and/or a decent mailing list to promote to: BruteForce SEO Affiliate program

However, for a slightly cheaper and probably better matured application and service that does practically everything the BruteForceSEO setup offers you, and at a (now) lower price as well ($97 per month), you may want to check out the most recent incarnation of SENuke instead (or in addition).

While it does have its quirks, it's a great application that comes accompanied by tons of cut-to-the-chase how-to videos and it supports proxies which in our view is quite indispensable to the power user! (By contrast, Peter Drew feels that proxy functionality would only complicate matters unduly, something yours truly refuses to agree with.)

The trial version comes for free (no $1 for the first week or anything) and certainly merits attention: SENuke

Finally, there's IBP (short for iBusinessPromoter), an SEO application that even comes with a ranking guarantee. Well, sort of:

Why we can guarantee top 10 rankings

Actually, noone can guarantee top 10 rankings except for Google's engineers. However, IBP has a success rate of more than 98% and we will give you your money back if you belong to the very few people who don't get top 10 rankings on Google with IBP.

Expect IBP to achieve your rankings (you define your own keywords) within appr. 90 days - whereas the guarantee is good for a full year, so that's fair enough, we'd say. There's a free demo version available for download and full version pricing's a one-off payment of €249.95, so no recurring monthly fees to factor in which many people may prefer.

We haven't been able to test this thingy in depth ourselves yet, so while we cannot vouch for its efficacy first hand, in view of their reasonable pricing and the money-back guarantee offered we do feel it's a game you cannot really lose at if. Download it here: IBP

(To be continued.)

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How to Make Top Dollars with MSN

Before anyone starts whining - yes, MSN's Live.com is a pathetic dwarf compared to behemoth Google when it comes to search market share.

BUT: There's always been savvy online marketers who didn't fall for the mainstream media's hypnotized focus on the Mountainview 'Plex crowd - while being the #1 search engine may and actually does translate to humungous numbers of searcher eyeballs, on the downside it also entails encompassing the lion's share of junk traffic.

Chances are that your Yahoo! and MSN traffic, while possibly puny compared to Google's, will achieve an astronomically higher conversion rate - certainly nothing you should knock too lightly as it may well prove to be the costliest mistake of your life!

If there's one marketing report you do have to buy this year because it can indeed make you top dollars at a rate you possibly never dared dreaming of, it's definitely this one: Cracking the MSN Code is one of the leanest, meanest and most enlightening reads plus the very best value for money we've come across in long, long while - no "SEO 101" fluff, no lamer's social network spam recipe to make a few cents on the long tail, this is all hands-on power stuff for the really serious Internet entrepreneur.

I mean, persistently achieving #1 position for just about any short tail keywords even with 35 million competing pages on Live or more is nothing to be scoffed at - and this report tells you exactly how to achieve it in speed demon mode: more often than not, you can achieving such rankings within a mere week, while at other times it may take a month or two. More importantly, however, these rankings tend to be extremely sticky, meaning you're likely to enjoy (and profit from) them for years to come with preciously little effort.

Finally, two important tips:

1. Do go for the OTO that will be presented after your purchase. The script offered will help you automate the entire process with a vengeance, and for the price demanded it's a real steal!

2. Another third party application strongly recommended (and justly so!) by authors Dave Kelly and Chris Rempel is Caffeinated Content, a veteran tool that can populate your blog with 100% targeted content within minutes.

Now here's the best part: They've got a promotion running (not mentioned in the report!) till Nov 8 which lets you save $30 if you're savvy enough to purchase it by then. (See details below.) No way you're ever going to get it for less - and it actually is an absolute must have if it's the last tool you'll buy in your life!

So here are the links again plus the special CC promo code for you:

Cracking the MSN Code

Caffeinated Content - Use this link, and to save $30 when purchasing by November 8, put promo code TRICKORTREAT in the appropriate field and be sure to update your shopping cart before signing out!

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Google Results with BruteForceSEO: 60% Page #1 Domination!

Following up on our review of Peter Drew's freshly released BruteForceSEO where we mentioned dominating the first 20 Google results for our chosen key phrase, here's a screenshot demonstrating the power of this SEO tool and the strategy that goes with it.

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Cornering 6 spots out of 10 on the first Google page, to wit: rank #3 for the main site - a free hosting third level domain, too, really can't get much cheaper than that -plus 5 results for RSS feeds exclusively pointing to that same web site is a pretty impressive success rate for a phrase boasting 7.9 million results.

Moreover, we didn't really invest a lot of effort in this test run - certainly not the full gamut of possibilities BruteForceSEO offers its users, tip of the iceberg, and all that...

Note that this is actually a 100% white hat tool, too. Admittedly, its true fortes are optimizing for the long tail rather than those ultra competitive search terms that require an entire server park (and boatloads of money) of their own to make your mark in that space. But as it's eminently scalable with very little effort, yours truly wouldn't be surprised to see it perform a lot better than average in this field as well.

So do check it out here while the price is still in cut-rate mode!

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Two Kick-Ass Link Building Tools

Today it's time to tell you about two kick-ass link building and SEO tools you really don't want to miss out on. As our faithful regular readers know, we're very sparing with promoting third party products because 99% of them simply don't meet our stringent quality standards. Here are two notable exceptions.

Peter Drew's BruteForceSEO (which we introduced here a few weeks ago) has finally launched and it's arguably the most powerful white hat SEO tool out there money will buy you.

BruteForceSEO covers such nifties as automatic account creation on a slew of different platforms (ranging from Gmail accounts to Wordpress blogs and a chockfull - 40+ - social networks) to RSS feed creation and submission.

Even more powerful, perhaps, is his Gold Digger (ok, never mind the corny name...) niche keyword research tool which lets you drill down to a vast range of highly specific targeted key phrases - which can then be leveraged via the entire setup for optimal results.

It also comes with plenty of explanatory videos and an extensive pdf report outlining the entire process in detail.

Mini case study of our own

Using only one single segment of his recommended tactics and tools we managed to dominate the first two pages of Google with 7 results out of 20 in less than 12 (!) hours yesterday - and that, again, was merely a microscopic part of what his system actually allows you to do!

And a #3 rank on Ask was thrown in for good measure. Really not too bad for about 5 minutes' labor... :-)

Update: See our more detailed analysis including a SERP screenshot here.

You can test drive it for 7 days for a mere buck, after which subscription will be $97 per month which is more than reasonable. Peter has announced that only 1,000 slots will be available at that price. Once filled (as were his 1k affiliate partner slots within appr. 2 weeks), price will go up "by at least 50%" - and if you know him (of BadAssRSS etc. fame) even only a bit you won't harbor any doubts that he's dead serious about this.

So make sure to check out BruteForceSEO here!

Another cool service we've come across is PostLater: this one allows you to post your content in a scheduled manner across tons of different blogging platforms (including micro blogging sites like Twitter) in a scheduled manner: Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, FriendFeed... the list goes on. Note that this even encompasses platforms that don't of themselves allow for scheduled posting - arguably the most convenient aspect of them all!

Scheduled posting allows you to streamline your workflow: set up your submission campaigns in one fell swoop, then forget about them and devote your time to less mechanical and more lucrative tasks such as marketing and customer support.

Admittedly we do have our beef with some features. For instance: once posted, your article lists will disappear from the system without a trace. Thus, if you have to log your submissions in detail (and which power poster and serious, methodical link builder doesn't?) you're out in the woods as far as PostLater is concerned. So make sure you log and save your submission data externally to ensure your capacity for keeping track of your activities.

Also, if you're submitting heavily to free hosted blog platforms you may be a bit peeved seeing how many of them actually prevent remote scheduled posting. This, of course, isn't PostLater's fault: if a platform administrator decides not to implement their API or XML/RPC interface, there's nothing the service can do about it. They will, however, give you a range of helpful tips on how to possibly make it come about all the same, most of which involve getting in touch with the respective platform provider and having them specify a number of technical parameters you can then use to configure submission via PostLater manually.

Furthermore, PostLater supports just about any language including lots of different character sets, be it Western/Roman, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese or whatnot. This is especially useful for all you international and multi lingual marketers out there.

Finally, at only $9.95 a month this service is a real steal.

Check out PostLater here.

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The Net’s Baddest Article Rewriter

Thanks to one of our members in the 20 Links A Day subscribers forum we came across this free online article rewriting service whose name actually says it all: BadArticle - Article Rewrite and HTML Markup Tool for Bad People

It’s a funny mix between a tongue-in-cheek parody of Eastern European black hat gimmicks (including some excruciating English copy, albeit quite reflected) and a bona fide rewriter tool. Rewriting results are less than stellar, to put it mildly, but then they never claimed otherwise. And seeing that it’s free there’s really nothing to complain about.

This said, the kind of stuff it generates may still service your average churn-and-burn black hat site with content provided you’re prepared to put up with being chucked out of the Google index every other week or so.

So do check it out if only to see how these rewriting widgets generally work: BadArticle

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