I frequently get asked how it is possible to ping pages that are not blogs (ie cloaked pages). You ping your cloaked pages the same way you would ping a blog page. There are a number of ways you can do this though.

One way is to go to a pinging service like pingomatic.com or pingoat.com and just type in the URL of the cloaked page that you want to be pinged. Also, I know that Joseph Tierney has a free pinger tool that I used to use a few years ago. Joseph is the creator of BloggerGenerator, so you might be able to go over to his website and find the free download.

The final way to ping your cloaked pages is to use EWI. EWI has a built-in pinger. Based on the cloaked pages that EWI creates, EWI also configures a pinger that is hosted on your server as a PHP file. Then to ping several pinging services all you need to do is go to the URL of the pinger script (ie http://www.yourdomain.com/pinger.php) and a random cloaked page will be pinged. After running this script you will see almost immediately several search engine bots, including google and yahoo, start to spider your website. This pinger is a HUGE bonus with EWI and by itself is probably worth more than the monthly subscription price to EWI.

I have been asked many times how to use EWI when you have a CloakerLive subscription. As many of you know if you have a CloakerLive subscription then you also get all the SEC add-ons activated automatically. Those of you who have EWI know that the program asks you for your add-on activation codes on the “Other” tab. This has caused a lot of confusion with EWI and CloakerLive users because people constantly ask me “Where do I get the activation codes if I am using CloakerLive?”.

If you have EWI and CloakerLive follow these steps in order to setup your cloaked website properly…

1.) Run EWI as normal, just leave the activation code section blank in EWI
2.) Login to your CloakerLive account. Create the account for your domain. This should activate the templates add-on for you.
3.) All your word lists and templates that EWI created will show up.

NOTE: You DO NOT need CloakerLive to use EWI. However, if you don’t have CloakerLive then you will need the Templates Add-on.

Reading this post will save you $500…

I’ve talked to a bunch of people who were new to cloaking and not knowing what they were doing started purchasing different products and ended up wasting a lot of money. This post outlines how subscribing to EWI will save you $500 in unnecessary KeywordCandy products. I am going to go through each feature of EWI and show you the comparable KeywordCandy product that it replaces. Not only does EWI replace these KeywordCandy products but most of the time the tool is better in EWI and much more efficient.

EWI performs the following functions…

1.) Automatically configures an auto pinger script, which will get you spidered within minutes and indexed in Google within days (replaces All Day Sucker that costs $249).

2.) Creates optimized hyperlinks automatically (replaces SLURL 2.0 costs $59).

3.) Optimized templates that are automatically downloaded, configured, and uploaded to your server when EWI 2.0 is run. The templates require NO editing (replaces buying Templates at $24.95 to $29.95 per template).

4.) Automatic content creation tools built into EWI 2.0 that use a content creation process better (and a lot quicker) than Jellybeans.  Jellybeans is the theory while EWI is the tool to automate and put the Jellybean theory into practice (replaces Jellybeans that costs $39).

5.) Members get access to the “advanced cloaking system” EWI 2.0 uses as well as videos and access to this blog (replaces Advanced Cloaking Videos that costs $97).

To recap…a subscription to EWI 2.0 will save you over $500 in Keyword Candy products (All Day Sucker @ $249, SLURL 2.0 @ $59, 3 Templates @ $25 each, Jellybeans @ $39, Advanced Cloaking Videos @ $97).

Enjoy!