It seems every time I turn around someone is bragging about all the traffic they get from article marketing. Now…I am naturally a lazy person and not big on writing and if I have to write articles then I want to get the most bang out of each article I write.

So here’s how I do it, I first go to Google and type in MY KEYWORD site:ezinearticles.com *this article has been viewed 5000…10000 time(s)” “Article submitted on **,2009” this allows me to see all the articles under my keyword that have been viewed over 5000 times.

The reason it has been viewed so many times is because it ranks in the search engines. I’ll visit the article and even checkout their landing page to see what they are doing with the traffic.

From here I’ll go to Google’s keyword tool, enter the ezine article page URL and find out what keywords Google feels are relevant to this page. Now I have a list of keywords, I’ll take that list and remove all the keywords that are not driving traffic.  Now it’s time to use a free rank tracker tool from http://www.link-assistant.com/, Rank Tracker is a free tool that will allow me to find out where sites or rather pages are ranking in the search engines. There are a ton of search engines I can look at. And the really cool thing is that I can paste my whole list into this tool.

From here this tool will scan all my keywords looking for that site to see which keywords they rank for and where they rank.

Now, I’ll sort my results by their rankings, I only care about the keywords they are ranking in the top 20 for.

Once I put together my list of keywords, I’ll write an article for each keyword and I’ll make sure that each article is better, more engaging and more keyword specific then the guy that is already getting traffic from these keywords.

I’ll then submit the articles to article sites and use Onlywire.com to build me some backlinks to my new articles. I know these are easy to rank for keywords because this guy is already ranking for them using ezine articles. I’ll also do some videos and build some backlinks to those videos from Onlywire.com.

Before the week is out I will have pushed this guys article out of the way and replaced those rankings with my own.