Blogging Zoom Day One Recap
November 2nd, 2007 by Court- We had 1,485 unique visitors and 8,472 page views. Interesting factoid: Today we’ve already had about 500 unique visitors and 3,200 page views (it’s currently 10:12 a.m.) so it’s looking like we’ll at least double yesterday’s traffic. A lot of this traffic is already search engine traffic, which we knew it would be. These numbers aren’t even 1/100th of what we will be able to do within the next few weeks.
- We increased indexed pages from 48 to 717. This is unheard of and to tell you the truth I don’t know if I believed that it was possible before I met Vic. This is huge for Blogging Zoom and goes to show that our plan to bring a huge chunk of search traffic is right on schedule.
- Asktheadmin.com won the day with 10 zooms. The article ‘Attention Webmasters - Do you socialize? Want to make it easier?‘ Two posts from today already have over 10 zooms so we’re definitely going to have a new all-time record holder.
Reviews Of Blogging Zoom
We have already had people giving back to Blogging Zoom through reviews. The most significant review/post we’ve picked up so far was on CashQuests.com - Blogging Zoom Has Increased My Traffic. That review really helped us out, and it will also help CashQuests. I linked back to the review, as I have done with all the reviews I’ve found. Also, some people will sign up for the service because of that review, and that will cause more and more people to sign up. That will bring more traffic right back to CashQuests. If you guys will help BZ to grow by linking to it and reviewing for your readers, I can promise you that you will get back much more than you give.
If you have linked to and reviewed BZ, please let me know. I’ve been linking to everyone that does it and will continue to do so. Update, here are the reviews I’ve found today:
- EasyWordPress.com - Courtney Tuttle Launched Blogging Zoom
- Ejcross.com - New Social Networking Site Launched
- The Monetizer - Blogging Zoom - Explode Your Blog Traffic
- YourWebsiteProfit.com - Zoom It: A Blogging Zoom Review
- Ask The Admin - Blogging Zoom finally a social site for self promotion
- Rich Gilcrest - BlogginZoom - Very Cool New Blog Promotion Pligg
- TheNextPost - Is BloggingZoom Headed For Boom Time?
- MakeMoneyForBeginners - Blogging Zoom, A New Traffic Source
- Freedom Ideas - Never Got Dugg? Get Blogging Zoomed!
- MakingSalesMakingMoney - Blogging Zoom New Social Network Increases Traffic
- The Tao Of Blog - Blogging Zoom - Upcoming
Blogging Zoom WordPress Plugin
Vic put together a WordPress plugin that shows a ‘zoom’ button within WordPress posts. You can get the BZ WordPress plugin here. We owe Justin from Blendworx our thanks for creating a button that looks much better than the original. Justin has been very helpful and supportive of BZ - thanks Justin!
350 Character Minimum Requirement
Mid-day yesterday we decided to make a change that pretty much forces you to create a description that uses at least 350 characters. I wanted to clarify why we want to do that. 350 characters gives us enough material to get your content ranked in Google and other search engines. From the submissions I saw before we made the change, I would say that at least 75% of them were one line descriptions that would never rank well for you.
The above chunk of content is 434 characters.
As you know, this service is about getting your content ranked and getting you burst traffic in a Digg-like environment. If we wanted to be Digg we wouldn’t have those requirements, but we would rather have content from you that we can get ranked. Even though it will take an extra minute or so of your time, it will ensure that BZ works for the entire community.
Feedback Please!
If you have found any bugs in the system, we are going to open up the comments of this post to address them. Any help you can give us will be huge - we want to make the system as good as possible. How do you guys like the service so far?
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November 2nd, 2007 at 11:50 am
Wow. 350 characters is actually a lot! I got the error message two times before I finally had enough words and charachters.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Bruce I did the math to get the best possible outcome with Google’s algorithm 350 was the minimum.
Trust me this is in your benefit. Yesterday I had 152 referrals from my submissions some people only got a few.
My submissions are optimized for Google, once people understand how to make a proper teaser this will be huge.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:40 pm
It’s true. I got more visitors from the one with the bigger teaser. That’s what I reported in my review this morning.
The 350 characters could be shown like the summary. That would had help me this morning to get the number for the review. Add it when your have a minute. I added a few things to make it better in my review.
Continue the good job guys!
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:16 pm
I am having trouble getting my post accepted. I keep getting an error message. You say 350 words but the box your texts appears in only counts to 250 then stops. I see the other comment above, so do I just keep going?
Can’t wait to get posted. Thanks for this wonderful tool
Nick
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Nick use this tool it is not words it is 350 characters.
http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/charcount.shtml
I hope this helps.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Hi Court,
Okay I got it now. I find the box below where you type your text in to be a little confusing.
Thanks for Bruce’s comment, I went back and just kept going.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Ok Nick, I’ll have a look at the wording! Thanks!
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Blogging Zoom Day One Recap | Internet Marketing | Make Money Online | Strategy | Services
Our first day the outlook. Court goes in detail how it is looking and what the expectations are. Court will also explain why the 350 and there also some comments where I explain again.
Today will be huge as we are still getting more and more users as …
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Courtney,
THANK YOU! I have written a review and recommendation of Blogging Zoom on my site.
I hope it goes as well as it looks and functions so far!
http://ejcross.com/2007/11/02/new-social-networking-site-launched/
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Thanks for giving back Elliott! That was one of the better reviews we’ve had so far.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:55 pm
You’re very welcome! I hope it continues to do well, and look forward to your success (and ours too!).
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:42 pm
congratulations! look like you are having a good start. ya agree with you on the 350 characters requirement. that’s somewhere around 50 words. we need content on the post but still out of duplicate content penalty. kind of impressing getting index pages
that high in short time. well done.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Thanks ScamFreeMoneyMaker! We will always make the choices that will bring the most benefit to the group as a whole. Thanks for backing us up on this decision.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Well I am on a lunch break, so thought I would drop by for a post. Thanks for the props Court. I hope to work with the logos a bit more and see what interesting thing can be made of it to look more unique.
I will just relay what I have gained thus far from BZ on a personal level in my post tonight. But from a quick glance it looks like I have gained about 150 more visitors from BZ than I normally would.
Just think everyone, at only 1 day and seeing results, I can only imagine a week or even a month from now. Lets keep the support rolling in guys. Zoom articles you find anywhere that are good blogs. Im sure people will actually see a difference and realize this is no joke at all.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:45 pm
You’re welcome Justin. It’s good to know that you’ve gained a bunch of traffic from participating, what’s possible with this is almost ming blowing. As you said, it’s going to get crazy in a week or two.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Sorry, but the 350 characters is a deal breaker. What you’re asking is that I optimize pages on your site to rank for the same keywords that my article is targeting. Now, why would I do that?
Digg managed to rank well in the search engines from the beginning without measures like this.
Search Engine Optimized User Generated Content? You’re getting greedy.
No offense guys, I love the site and I’d love to use it. But if I’m targeting some keywords with my article, I’m not going to help you outrank me.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Hi Alexandru. I appreciate your honesty. The truth however is that we’re not getting greedy at all. One of the two main functions of Blogging Zoom is to help people to get ranked in locations they can’t achieve on their own.
What’s the point if every post submitted gets ranked on page 200 of Google because there isn’t enough content there?
Blogging Zoom is here to help people to get rankings they can’t get on their own. If you think you can get the rankings and traffic you need on your own then maybe you don’t need to use the service.
Are you aware that we pushed over 100 referrals to more than one person on our first day online? Judging by your last post, which included your traffic stats, I can tell you that if it would have been you it would have increased your traffic by more than 50% yesterday alone. You said that you got 470 visitors from search engines last month? We had people get over 100 search engine visitors to their sites on our first day Alexandru. You’re saying that it’s a bad idea because they have to make one extra click to get to your site?
You want to cripple the main thing that we can do to help people to get traffic, which is to get their content ranked. We’re getting greedy?
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Sorry Court, didn’t see your reply, just Vic’s.
You’re making the mistake of assuming that Shylock Blogging is my main blog. It isn’t. I started a new blog a few days ago and I have about 20.000 uniques in this time already. Traffic can be easy sometimes.
I’m sorry, but the idea that you’re helping people get ranked by ranking instead of them doesn’t fly too well. I got all the respect for you and I’m a long time subscriber, but you’ll have to accept that not everyone is thrilled when they see Digg ranking higher then their article that made the front page. If you put it like this, Digg does the same thing, helps people get ranking by doing it instead of them.
And I still think the 350 character minimum isn’t needed. What if a blogger has a simple post with a very cool photo and no text in it. Why should he need to write 350 characters describing a picture when he could just say “Look at this cool pic”. That guy would actually have less text on his post then on Blogging Zoom.
Anyway, enough is enough. I’ve said my opinion on this. No point in getting into a fight about it. Have a nice day and good luck with Blogging Zoom. It has huge potential.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Please point us to the 20k blog
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:22 pm
BTW The next time you decide to lie, do it better.
Kid you are on a shared host, as such a shared host would not take 20k unique hits in a day we would be talking about 60k page views.
ns1.dreamhost.com
ns2.dreamhost.com
Again if I do not know what i am talking about explain the algorithim to us and also show us your 20k unique hit Blog a day theone according to you that you just started.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Vic, honestly, you have no idea what you’re talking about again. Dreamhost can’t take 20k visitors in one hour, that’s true. But what I said, is that in the few days since I started that blog I got 20k uniques. As far as I know that doesn’t mean 20k in a single day, but total in 2-3 days since I started it. And I wasn’t talking about search engine traffic, so no idea about what algorithm you’re talking about.
And sorry, unlike you I feel no need to stroke my family jewels in public. What I earn online and the stats from my other sites are private. If you don’t like that, go tell Darren Rowse that he’s a liar because he doesn’t reveal his stats. And I got 4 hosting accounts total + a dedicated server coming in January, not just the Dreamhost one.
And … watch who you’re calling kid mate. You seem a bit too childish to be pointing fingers.
When you’re talking with other people that are making money online it might be a good idea not to act like an ebook guru. 300k uniques in one month doesn’t make you special. Sorry
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:01 pm
So son there is no blog huh? LOL
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:06 pm
I was so expecting that comment :)). Thanks for proving me right once again. You’re a kid.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Alexandru I understand your position but this is the reality and my intention is not to be mean just talking straight.
Alexandru I just checked your page you have no chance in hell to out rank anybody in any keyword. Period!!
The basis of Blogging Zoom is actually to help people like you.
Because of the mass content submission Google bot will be coming back and forth all day.
Because we are not Digg our post have content I help with code to get authority and better ranking.
This gives you a chance to rank with a keyword you would never have a chance in hell to rank.
Again not to be mean just facts.
Your main keyword selection is “make money blogging”
You are on page four of Google for all mass traffic purposes you are in limbo in no mans land.
Now again to prove my point that you have no idea what are you talking about.
Not one Digg post is in the first Four pages, again NOT ONE!
No Digg does not rank well they have mass traffic because of the base they have built.
We are not Digg and do not want to be Digg.
We do not want to send you 900 people and than get 0. We want to get you 100 today and get you everyday 10 visitors a day for the life of that post which it would be hopefully for ever.
Now Alexandru please explain why Digg does not rank well in Googles algorithm or even easier explain the algorithm to me.
My point friend is we want to help everybody in a collective manner. We want to be the bloggers against the rest.
But we can not help those that do not want the help.
If I had some one who will have this month over 300k unique hits on his page trying to help me, I would listen.
This is who I am:
Bu.bulicio.us last month
218484 Unique Hits
575951 Page Views
And this is a blog with only 90 days.
Alexandru I do not talk about what I think I talk with what I know.
I invite you to use the service and in 30 days we continue this chat and we will see who is right
Come and join us buddy we are here to help you even if right now you do not have the knowledge to know that this is what we are doing.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Ohh, Vic, mate, don’t tempt me to rip you a new one. With what you just said, you convinced me that you know less then I do. If you want to impress me build in 3 months a blog about making money online with 300k visitors per month. That would be cool to see.
And if you really care about Blogging Zoom (and it does have huge potential with Court’s backing), get down from that high horse where you’re so proudly standing and cut the crap. It’s normal that you want for Blogging Zoom to grow and make money of it. Love the idea, love what you’ve done with it, it’s normal that you want for it to rank.
But if a small blog writes an article about ugly small dogs, posts on Blogging Zoom, and then you’re higher then him for the keywords ugly small dogs, then that means you’re stealing traffic from him, not giving.
Ahh, you might want to stop spamming Blogging Zoom with those mortage type articles. It doesn’t look good when you’re spamming your own site.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Hey Alexandru, let me address some of your concerns so that we’re clear.
That’s a good example that you used with ugly small dogs, it will help me to illustrate the whole point of BZ. Let’s say a small site gets ranked at #19 for ugly small dogs. They may get 2 visitors per day from that keyword at position 19.
We can take their title and description and get it ranked at say #3. Now they get say 25 people per day to their BZ page, and 13 people to their site.
Yeah, we rank higher than them, but does that help them or hurt them? They actually will probably still get their 2 people at position 20 and 13 more from us. Does that give you a better idea of what we’re trying to do?
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
I’ve replied to your previous comment. Didn’t see it the first time.
I get what you’re saying Court. I’ve understood from the beginning. That argument can be used just as well with Digg, since they have huge authority and better chances to rank.
IMHO I don’t think that it’s a good idea to tell webmasters “Come to our site, submit your content and optimize it, so we can rank on the first page and send some of that traffic your way.”
But I’m guessing we’ll both remain on the same position as before so no point arguing
Best of luck, again.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Son there is no money in the niche I made 8k last month from Bu.bulicio.us how much did you make? I only work niches that pay.
After this month is over which I have to dedicate my full time to BZ I would be willing to take you on.
This would be it: we both deposit 10k in an escrow account we both buy brand new domains and both focus on the keywords “making money online”
At the end of the 30 days who ever has more unique hits takes home the 20k
If you are willing to do this just contact me at my Skype which is bu.bulicio.us so we can share our attorneys to draft a legal agreement both agreeing to the terms.
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:05 pm
:)))
Vic, honey, would you spare me the drama already? 10k on a bet because someone said you don’t know what you’re talking about?
Well, you don’t, but that doesn’t mean I’m such a moron that I would bet 10k with a guy I had an argument over the Internet. And no you freakin kid, I didn’t make 8k last month from all my sites. See, I can admit that. Can you admit anything or should I just wait for you to finish the ego trip?
See, all this scandal because you’re not capable of a normal conversation or taking critics. How do you expect to run Blogging Zoom anyway? You have any idea how many opinionated bloggers you’ll piss off at one time or another?
PS: I still think you don’t have a clue. I do believe you worked your ass off to bring that blog to 300k and all my respect for that. But dude, you got a lot to learn about public relations when it comes to Blogging Zoom. Taking the “I’m superior and I know more because I made 8k” is really kiddy stuff. There are way too many guys out there that can put that to shame.
Going to bed soon. Don’t have a stroke if I don’t reply immediately.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Just submit post that you want or care less for keywords and keep the others for you only.
Like Court wrote, many will need that service.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:43 pm
I have one word for you. I love it - ok it was three but I liked the dramatic setup…
BZ is great and the guys over at http://www.askTheAdmin.com are loving it. It is kind of like getting in on Digg - at the ground floor.
The boys and i would love to help out any way we can and will be doing a full review over the weekend. Lets hope to double your traffic daily!
Viva la BZ!
Karl Gechlik
AskTheAdmin.com
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Haha yeah that definitely had a much better setup! So glad to hear that you guys are liking it, we are doing everything we can to make this the best thing out there for bloggers.
A review from you guys would be absolutely amazing.
Viva!
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Just thought I’d let you know I wrote a review. It can be read here: http://blog.yourwebsiteprofit.info/2007/11/zoom-it-a-bloggingzoom-review.html
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:29 pm
That’s a great review, I must say that there is some really good advice in there! Thanks so much and I’ll put your review up right now.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:34 pm
I could use more info on how the 350 word summary works to drive traffic.
Unlike most of the blogs I’ve seen on here so far, I write humor and I might be better off putting in the first 350 words of the article, as I try to start things off with a band. That would encourage people to click the link and zoom it, hopefully.
If the summary should be different, what should I be emphasizing there?
Thanks for your help!
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Anne actually you have a really good one.
the problem is that one of Googles filters is called the duplicate content filter.
Now the way this works it penalizes if you have the same content on different pages the person that gets the penalty is the lower ranking site.
The algorithm thinks that if you have more authority by definition you are the original creator of course this is not true sometimes.
No remember it is not 350 words it is 350 characters.
Could you make a small 350 character teaser post funny about your funny article?
But out of the comments about the 350 rule this one does present an interesting point
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Hi Anne! Thanks for a great question - know that we’re always here to help you to be as successful as possible with BZ.
I think you’ll do very well with humor in BZ. I’ve been to your site several times myself already.
We have more than one way to bring you traffic, and you be exceptional at the ‘zoom’ end of things.
The humorous posts that will get you the most search traffic will be posts that talk about things people already search for, like celebrities, etc. Poking fun at something that happened on television one night would likely draw some search visitors the next day.
Now, in order for us to get your content ranked in Google, the 350 characters comes in. 350 characters is actually only about 50 words.
You have a great thing going because you will probably get traffic from zoomers. Search traffic may be slightly more challenging for your regular posts, but your posts about people and other things searched for will do great.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Just wanted to add - a sample would be this column:
http://tinyurl.com/2yu8r2
I sucked at summarizing it, but people like the content.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Anne as a matter of fact I laughed my ass yesterday reading some of your stuff and zoomed a couple of your post to the front page.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Review posted over @ AskTheAdmin.com here Finally a social site for self promotion!
Great work guys!
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Lol that review made me cry! That’s why you guys are doing well over there.
Thanks for a great review, and I’ll get you on the list pronto.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Great site, I hope it takes off and keeps going past the start-up excitement
My quickie review here:
http://richgilchrest.com/bloggingzoom-very-cool-new-blog-promotion-pligg/
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Thanks Rich! I’ll put a link up to it right now.
Yeah we all hope that, but the truth is that people need this service.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I think it’s a great idea, but we need more people submitting besides “make money blogging” bloggers! It seems like every post is how to make money online or improve your blog. I’m already kind of burnt out on that material. I guess with time there will be more blog topics.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:57 pm
No doubt Brett, we need to get the word out to a lot more people out there. That’s exactly why we need people that have all different types of sites to help us to promote.
We’re getting a ton of sign ups, but as you know my site draws a lot of ‘make money onlinerz’.
Right now to break into that crowd, we need people like you to help us out Brett.
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Brett I think today we had much more diversity and the more bloggers learn of the service it will keep increasing in diversity.
November 5th, 2007 at 1:22 am
Well I’ve added some travel zooms if that helps! Question - why are some of my zooms stuck in upcoming rather than published tab? 2 have been their for a couple of days - which is kinda annoying!
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:53 pm
LMFAO little kids will never learn that lies need to be backed. Go get em Vic! And does anybody think he will take the challenge??
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:08 pm
asktheadmin, would you would take 10k bets with people that piss you off on the Internet? What world do you live in anyway?
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Alexandru - I am not a good person to ask seeming I blew more than that this weekend in Atlantic City.
I also don’t get into arguments with people on the internet.
I also don’t say stroke my own ego and then go showing off how much I know and how much the founder of a new service knows nothing.
Court and Vic have obviously proved themselves in there field have you?
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:14 pm
askTheAdmin
I swear my intention is not to get on the “I AM SO GOOD BAND WAGON” but the facts are what they are.
And I know some kid just starting his blog might read his idiotic post and this may cause him to lose an opportunity to gain traffic to his brand new site.
I back up everything I say. And when things do not work for me I am the first to say it.
People love to talk but at the end of the day when they have to do the walk, you will start reading how come they can not or do not want to do that.
Blogging Zoom has just incredible potential to drive organic traffic to small to medium bloggers but we all have to get together and decided to work together to get this done.
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:34 pm
AskTheAdmin, I’m not attacking Blogging Zoom, Court or Vic. I’ve said already that I think it’s a great idea with great potential and that I think it’s normal that they make money out of it. I have huge respect for Court and I’d really like to apologize for the fight with Vic in his comments.
Vic, honestly I’ve had enough of this fight. I’ll stop commenting on this blog from now on and I’ll post a review of Blogging Zoom tomorrow. A honest review, not looking to attack the site, you or Court. Just what I think about its future.
The entire argument from my point of view started because you acted all superior with your 300k uniques, when there was no need for that. I just pointed to what I thought was a flaw in your strategy, the minimum 350 characters. You shouldn’t judge people by the blogs they have in their signatures. Attacking someone and acting superior judging just by