Blogging Zoom - The Blogger’s Coup Against The Mainstream Media Monsters
November 1st, 2007 by Court
If you have all the traffic you need, this post isn’t for you. If you have no interest in banding together for the greater good of everyone, please close the window now because this post is 100% about making a truly united effort to make blogging better for every person involved in it.
Before we get too far into this, I first want to give you all an idea of what this service was designed to do:
- Give bloggers the opportunity to submit every post written to a place where they can benefit from professional SEO expertise. For those of you that struggle to get search traffic, this alone can help you to grow exponentially. This entire system will be based on the fact that we will promote your individual posts. Before you start worrying that we will be charging for this, stop right there - this service will be 100% free.
- Provide a social hub where bloggers can share ideas, learn to better themselves, and receive deserved, huge bursts of traffic to their quality content - without the competition from the big sites that currently have 8,000,000 different advantages on us. This organized, group attack will help every single one of you to get a bigger and well-deserved audience.
In order to achieve both of those goals, we have created Blogging Zoom - a tool built by bloggers as a coup against mainstream mammoths and site networks that stand in the way of our getting what we deserve:
Explaining what Blogging Zoom can do isn’t going to be that easy. It has some similarities to other services and more importantly has some key differences that tip the scales in the bloggers’ favor.
Upon first glance, you will notice that the front page of Blogging Zoom looks and acts similarly to Digg. We felt this was necessary to give bloggers the opportunity to get huge bursts of traffic to their content. That doesn’t mean that BZ is Digg 2, because it isn’t.
Key Factors That Make BZ The Mainstream Assassin
- Bloggers are not penalized for submitting their own content, in fact they are encouraged to submit all of their content. BZ allows you to add as much of your content as you want to a site that will get incredible amounts of traffic. Users will still vote for, or zoom, content and with enough zooms your content will be published front page to maximize traffic to your blog.
- If you’re not a blog, you’re out. There will be no competition between bloggers and huge news sites that already dominate search engine results and are indexed 100 times per day by Google. What happens if CNN submits an article to Blogging Zoom? Buried hahahahaha.
- We will use our SEO expertise to expose your content to search engines. This is the key factor that takes BZ 10 levels higher than anything else out there. The only thing even close to BZ in this aspect is Squidoo, but Squidoo doesn’t give you the potential to receive massive traffic bursts that can generate hundreds of links and thousands of visitors.
- Blog search engines like Google Blog Search and Technorati index spam like it’s premium content. Hopefully everyone is as tired as I am of competing with spam, because it’s a freaking joke. Since BZ is driven by bloggers, spammers will be reported, their work deleted, and their accounts banned.
Bloggers Coup Against The Mainstream
Lately I’ve realized that bloggers haven’t been working together. Google slaps us and ranks huge sites, networks, and even spam sites in front of us. Digg penalizes us for submitting too much of our content. Technorati ranks us but indexes spam in front of us.
The way I see it, if more of us are going to beat the odds that are stacked by the ton on top of us, it’s time to band together. Blogging Zoom was created by bloggers as the tool that can take a major chunk out of the search market, and deliver quality traffic to bloggers everywhere. I can tell you this, I will be promoting BZ like nobody’s business because it’s time for bloggers to be heard.
Together We Can Be Heard
We can create a massive resource that gets your content and mine ranked highly in Google for almost every competitive term. Together, we can take over positions that in the past were held by only the biggest internet gorillas. We can send thousands of visitors to quality content and ban spam that gets in our way in other mediums.
The more bloggers we can let know about BZ, the better it will be for every single one of us. What are we going to do? We’re going to get every blogger from here to China to Malaysia to Antarctica to everywhere else to help turn this tool into the coup that makes the mainstream media shake at the foundation. With enough help from bloggers everywhere, we can put this this thing into outer space.
If you want to help raise bloggers from the dust, it’s time to take action. Register at BZ, start submitting your content and zooming. More importantly, copy this post and put it up on your blog. We need to use every resource we can to get the word out to bloggers everywhere. That means Digg, Stumble, Sphinn, and every other site we can.
Let’s start the revolution.
Update 1 - People are signing up! We’ve also picked up some reviews on other sites already:
- Blog Raters
- OpTempo
- Blog Resources Online
- Money Maker Boy
- MDailyDouz
- Jeremy’s Consumer’s Corner
- The Writer’s Manifesto
- McGrath
Let me know if and when you create a review or post about Blogging Zoom, because I would love to create a list of all of the reviews here. Here’s your chance to get a link from CourtneyTuttle.com!
So far we’ve been getting lots of submissions and that’s awesome! One thing we’ve already noticed that can really be improved is that the descriptions so far have been very very short. We’ll be able to help your content to rank a lot better if there is a larger description.
We have a page already that has a page one ranking right now in Google for ‘Ashley Papelbon’. Here is the description that was used on that submission:
Ashley Papelbon has to be just stoked. Ashley Papelbon is the wife of big leageur Jonathan Robert Papelbon born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana who is the closer for the Boston Red Sox. Ashley Papelbon has suddenly become one of the most notable names in…
You’ll notice that this description is more like a paragraph and less like a sentence. I would consider adding twice that much in the description because that will help the page to rank better. You’ll also notice that ‘Ashley Papelbon’ is in the description more than once, and that will help the page to get a better ranking. Remember that Blogging Zoom is here to get you both social traffic and indirect search traffic. We can get you ranked if we have enough material to work with.
Make sure to type up a new description because copying and pasting from the original page will make it harder for us to get the page ranked. It will take an extra 20 seconds or so but will drastically improve your odds of getting a good ranking that will lead to residual traffic.
Update 2 - So far today we have had 1,485 unique visitors and 7,563 page views on Blogging Zoom and a lot of that is already search traffic that is pushing through to the sites that submitted content. I can’t even imagine what traffic levels BZ will get to in the next few weeks.
We have had some submissions that have super short descriptions. We know that we can’t get those pages ranked, so we added a minimum length for descriptions. The descriptions now need to be 350 characters. The submission process will take a little bit longer for people but will increase search traffic to content by about a million times.Guys the first day of Blogging Zoom so far has been awesome. Sorry we’ve been so quiet, it’s been a really busy day for me and Vic.
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November 1st, 2007 at 6:48 am
I hope you are going to show excerpts of posts, because either you or the blog owner will get into google duplicate content filter.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:53 am
That’s a very good comment to start the discussion off on Turk Hit Box. We will be teaching the blog owners to create a unique description of the post when they submit to Blogging Zoom. You’re 100% right in saying that submitting the entire post wouldn’t be a good thing.
The idea here is to submit the title of the post, and then create a short description of say 2 paragraphs that explains what the post is about.
That way both the original post, and the post on Blogging Zoom can both get ranked without being duplicate content at all.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:13 am
In order for me to properly get your post indexed and ranked I need content your submission can not be a small sentenced.
This is good example of a minimum:
http://bloggingzoom.com/Business/The_Macro_Trader_-_Systematic_Investing_and_Trading/
If you can add a second paragraph way better it gives me more room to get your submission to rank high and get you traffic.
Please do not use one sentence submissions I will not be able to get your submission ranked on first page of google.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:13 am
Interesting to see where this will go. I registered, but I have a couple of questions.
What do you mean by the “SEO expertise” thing? - What do you plan to do differently from say Digg? Also, how do you plan to fight spam, while at the same time encouraging promotion of our own blogs?
I don’t want to sound skeptical, I’d just like to know a bit more.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:29 am
Very good questions Sutoco. Digg does absolutely nothing to get your content to rank in Google and other search engines.
Although we are going to have to keep our promotion methods secret to make it so they work, I can tell you that we will be helping to build links internally and externally to your material.
To fight spam, we are going to need help from all of the users. We will be heavily moderating the content, and we want to create an atmosphere where users want to trash spam. I would ask that if you see any to please report it.
Spam blogs and sites are fairly easy to identify and if we work together on that we can control it.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:28 am
We will be using the same techniques that got Bu.bulicio.us one million pageviews in 90 days and yesterday 15k unique hits
November 1st, 2007 at 7:16 am
I think it’s a really great idea and I’ve already signed up for it. But, won’t it end up becoming much like Digg where only the “power users” really get their articles noticed? I agree that it’s better because we can submit our own articles without fear, but it still seems like most of us will just get lost in the mix.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:24 am
Jason we are all on an equal play ground what will make one submission moresucessful than other whenit comes to me beign able to get it ranked good will be the size of the blurb as for burst traffic will be determined by of course how many zooms.
In Digg there is a click and the will bury your submits and they will ban you.
I submitted for six days 1 post a day from Bu.bulicio.us to Digg.
Go and try to digg one post from my site, I was banned and have emailed them over 20 times not one answer.
We will never ban you from submitting your whole site as long as it is quality content not spam and it is a blog.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:19 am
Great idea. I signed up and I am very excited.Good luck
November 1st, 2007 at 7:39 am
Thanks Mike! Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to help you with this.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:34 am
Very cool. I will be promoting the site. I hope this takes off. I am sure there will be little kinks here and there along. I think positive criticism and ways to improve this site will be for the best.
Thanks Court, and Vic for thinking about making something valuable for the little blogger people in the online world.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:41 am
Thanks Justin and you are totally right there has to be kinks please if you find a bug let me know so I can fix it.
The success of Blogging Zoom will be tied to your success if we all work together we all win.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:41 am
Hey Justin!
Without question there will be some kinks here and there, in fact we would love to hear feedback if anyone runs into trouble. That’s bound to happen somewhat, so we would ask for everyone’s help.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:39 am
Court, this looks good but I’m not seeing how this will drive lots of traffic over and above any other social media site. This is like Sphinn for bloggers right? Right now BloggingZoom has no pagerank and very little traffic of its own so how will it drive lots of traffic to the stories that are submitted?
It’s not a criticism, just some genuine questions.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:46 am
Caroline, I think the point that Vic and Court are making is that traffic will come as long as everyone bands together and promotes this. I mean just take a look at the articles that have been submitted thus far. I think its just in its beginning stages so links and rank will come rather quickly. We all have to promote this to make it work. Vic and Court could promote all day long, but if the people they made this for don’t support it then it will not work. It’s a joint effort.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:47 am
Hey Caroline!
Always happy to hear from you.
This site is somewhat like Sphinn, except it will be open to every topic so the traffic potential is thousands of times greater than Sphinn. Sphinn is never going to gain an audience of people that aren’t internet marketers. Blogging Zoom can get people from all walks of life that want to hear what individuals have to say.
Yes, we are starting right here, right now Caroline. During beta testing this last week though I think you would be surprised how much traffic we were able to pull to a brand new site.
I don’t think you will have to worry about the traffic being there.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:48 am
Caroline you did not read my answer to one of your comments.
Sites get rank the day they get indexed the PR you see in your tool bar gets updated every three months but PR gets updated daily.
Please read Courts review on my site again so you understand.
People get no traffic to there sites because they are clueless to how to promote the site.
In Sphinn you submit your post and it will not be promoted individually.
In Blogging Zoom there are things running in the background you do not see, when you make a submission and it is promoted to the front page by Zooms, a special code I wrote takes over and promotes your individual submission.
The biggest difference that Bloging Zoom and Sphinn has is Sphinn does not have Court or me to do the SEO.
Caroline Bu.bulicio.us got one million page views in 3 months and this was just me submitting content what do you think I can do with Bloggng Zoom with all you folks submitting content?
http://bu.bulicio.us/category/bubulicious/
November 1st, 2007 at 7:52 am
http://sphinn.com/guidelines.php
Read there Guidelines and you tell me if we are different
November 1st, 2007 at 7:55 am
Ok I’ve signed up and had a quick look around. I’ll have a better look later. I think you need an ‘Internet Marketing’ and perhaps Social Media category, I couldn’t really think of a suitable category for my StumbleUpon post that I submitted.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:01 am
Thanks for the feedback Caroline! That’s going to be really important for us, so let us know if you see anything else.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:01 am
Caroline use Blogging at the end of the day all this things are also Blog related.
Remember we have to keep the categories as open as possible 96% of blogs have nothing to do with monetization , seo or even about blogging.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:07 am
Hey Court and Vic, have you guys thought of putting a limit on per day submissions, so one blog wouldn’t just keep submitting non stop? Especially if they were writing lots of posts everyday, or is that kosher as long as they are a small to medium sized blog right now?
November 1st, 2007 at 8:09 am
That’s a good question Justin. We’re going to remain flexible to changes, because without question we’ll have to make some. Hopefully that won’t be an issue, but if it becomes one, we’ll address it. For now it will be a good thing for everyone to get more content on BZ.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:21 am
Ok, I just registered and entered my post from today.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Cool Nuker, let me know if there’s anything that can be done to better your experience!
November 1st, 2007 at 8:22 am
I think it could be a good idea if done discreetly to submit articles for other people and then put in a comment on their blog that it has been submitted to blogging zoom. This will attract new people as well as the person that you zoomed the site for.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:33 am
That’s a great idea Justin! This whole thing is going to require the community to help promote. If we can get everyone behind this, we can turn it into a firestorm.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:51 am
Justing Blogging Zoom will send a trackback to the blog you just Zoomed.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:25 am
Hi Court,
So this is your big project. Sounds like a cracking idea, I had a quick look. The UI looks clean and easy to navigate. I’m going to have a good play on it later and submit some stuff. Best of luck.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:30 am
Martin remember you can submit your whole site or your best work
November 1st, 2007 at 8:53 am
Impressive. I’ve signed in and can tell that this is more engrossing than my feed reader.
It might be better if there were a larger section devoted to stop stories though. Devote an entire page to high-ranking stories in various categories.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:58 am
Thanks for the feedback J.D.! There is actually a link in the top right that says, ‘Top Today’. In that section you will find all of today’s top stories and posts.
You can also go to a category first, and the click ‘Top Today’. It will then show you the top posts in that category from today.
Hopefully that helps you! Is that what you’re looking for? If not please let me know because we want to make this as good as possible.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:19 am
Sweet site Court and Vic! I would love to help out in any way I can, just shoot me an email if there is anything I can do to help. I would love to see this site get really big.
November 1st, 2007 at 11:41 am
Thanks we really need the help.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:04 pm
No problem! Just let me know.
November 1st, 2007 at 9:34 am
Looks good ! But it needs traffic first to lol
November 1st, 2007 at 9:46 am
Nomar I can buy a domain 8am in the morning and before it is 11pm that night I will have brought from Google 1000.
I can get a site indexed in less than 20 minutes.
Please son the traffic does not come you have to know how to get it.
November 1st, 2007 at 10:00 am
I registered and submitted my post that I just made. I was searching for “Electronics” or “Consumer Electronics”. It’s in “Technology and Science” now.
Anyway, it looks very good so far and hope it does bring traffic from you experts to us small bloggers.
Question: How do you plan on making money from it? I was searching for an advertising section. At least put some Adsense to get some cpm for now and maybe a few clicks.
I don’t want you to go broke for us
November 1st, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Don’t worry, we’ll figure out the monetization as needed. The hosting will get expensive quickly so you’ll see at least some Adsense soon. Right now we’re focusing on getting the word out as much as possible.
November 1st, 2007 at 10:15 am
Hey Court and Vic, wondered if it would be ok if I throw a little logo to promote the site. I put the logo on my blog if thats ok. Let me know what you think. If its ok I will make some really nice ones and feature them If I get the ok on them from you guys.
November 1st, 2007 at 10:57 am
Justin you are totally right give me a few hours and I will put up the wordpress plugin and banners.
It will be at the official blog http://bloggingzoom.com/blog/
November 1st, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Thank god I just re read all the comments I did not get it the first time. Justin please you can contact me at vic@bloggingzoom.com or Skype bu.bulicio.us this would really help I suck at graphics and right now I have been so focused on making sure the code is working and promoting all your submissions that I just have not had time to deal with that.
but if you contact me I will send you the psd file and the font.
Thanks
November 1st, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Hey Vic somehow I missed this the last time around looking at comments. I have emailed you. Sorry I don’t have skype, But you can Get in touch with me via any IM. AIM, MSN, or Yahoo.
November 1st, 2007 at 10:52 am
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November 1st, 2007 at 11:04 am
Folks if you follow what Court just wrote as an update we can help you.
I just made this post to prove the point.
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=Fidelity+Layoffs&btnG=Search+Blogs
I have already had 46 Unique referrals from this Blog Search from BloggingZoom.com
November 1st, 2007 at 11:48 am
I’ll be joining and posting later today.
How are you financing this? I did not notice any ads when I quickly looked at it.
I can see this getting expensive to keep up.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Don’t worry James, we’ll run some ads as needed. You’ll see some Adsense before too long. Right now we’re just spreading the word. Thanks for your concern James!
November 1st, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Is there some place where we should leave our suggestions and feature requests?
November 1st, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Absolutely Sutocu! You can leave them in the contact form at the official blog:
http://bloggingzoom.com/blog/contact-us/
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
November 1st, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Hey i have wrote a post about blogging zoom please add me to your review list http://www.moneymakerboy.com/2007/11/blogging-zoom-blogging-revolution.html
November 1st, 2007 at 12:26 pm
You got it.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Court, you’re a genius! And I’m sure Vic is too, sorry I just haven’t been following his blog yet.
Hey I wrote a post about your revolutionary new blogging tool, include me to your list. Thanks!
November 1st, 2007 at 1:01 pm
forgot to include the URL:
http://mdailydouz.blogspot.com/2007/11/courtney-tuttle-creates-blogging-zoom.html
Thanks, Marci
November 1st, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Cool Marci, I’ll get you added in right now!
November 1st, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Thanks Court, you’re awesome!
November 1st, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Great job; I’m really excited about this! I wrote a review, if you’d like to post it…
http://jeremysconsumerscorner.blogspot.com/2007/11/bloggingzoom.html