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Wow it’s weird to be on the outside looking in! It has definitely given me a lot of perspective into social networking that I never would have had otherwise. Blogging Zoom is growing very quickly right now - at our current rate of growth we should be able to pass Sphinn by very soon, but that’s expected since we have a wider scope.

As I expected, some people are having a lot of success with Blogging Zoom, and some aren’t fully utilizing what’s available to them. Since this tool ultimately is here to help you to get as much traffic as possible, I want to be as transparent as I can. I basically want to tell you how to get results with Blogging Zoom.

How To Get Indirect Search Traffic With BZ

I’ve been watching the BZ stats closely and have seen that some of you have been able to get over 100 unique hits per day that are direct results of search engine traffic we’ve been able to get. The ones that are doing this are treating their submissions quite differently than everyone else so I wanted to give you some insights into this.

We can do a lot to help your pages to get ranked, in fact we have already been able to achieve quite a few number one rankings that pulled and pushed a ton of Google traffic. The submissions that we have been able to do this with were written with keywords in mind.

A great example of a submission that pulled insane amount of search traffic is this one made by Dax: Manny Ramirez On Jay Leno. If you look at the description that was used you won’t be surprised that it ranked really well for any search related to Manny’s appearance on Jay Leno:

Manny Ramirez on Jay Leno? Everyone knows that Manny Ramirez has always been shy with the media, but he apparently made an appearance on Jay Leno last night and looked like the mayor of Boston.

For those of you that have always been curious about Manny but haven’t heard him speak that much, his appearance on Leno should satisfy your curiosity. He talks about his love for cars, the curse of the bambino and some other very interesting things.

I personally never expected to see Manny Ramirez on Jay Leno, not in a million years!

You’ll notice that this description has ‘Manny Ramirez’ in it three times, but still flows well and doesn’t seem spammish at all. You will also notice that ‘Manny Ramirez on Jay Leno’ appears a few times in this description, but Dax found a way to make it still sound great. This submission brought around 1,000 searches from Google and pushed a good percentage of that traffic to the post submitted.

Adding Tags

Adding more tags can also help your submissions to get ranked for more keywords. Think about the different ways that people might search for your content.  The Manny Ramirez and Jay Leno example would give us quite a few possible searches: Manny Ramirez on Jay Leno, Manny Ramirez Jay Leno, Manny Ramirez Jay Leno Show, Jay Leno Manny Ramirez. We can get you to rank better for those keywords more easily if you use them when you tag!

How To Get More Zooms

Making Friends

The people that have had the most success getting zooms so far are the people that are participating the most actively. The people that aren’t getting many are the people that aren’t visiting other sites and zooming actively themselves. Making BZ friends will help you more than anything, and if you’re too selfish to visit the sites of your friends, they will probably make other friends.

I can tell you that most of the users that are getting on the front page are the ones that have been zooming the most posts. There is an entirely different group that is submitting their own work, and not zooming at all. As I’ve looked through the user numbers, I can tell you that there is a good percentage of users that submit their work but don’t zoom anyone else. These users aren’t doing very well.

On the other hand there are users such as fredpeters who has submitted 6 posts and has zoomed over 60 posts. It’s not shocker to learn that this user has hit the front page 5 out of 6 times. Another very active zoomer is Grizzly, who has submitted 3 times and zoomed 76 posts. Grizzly has hit the front page with every post he’s submitted. Blendworx has hit the front page 18 out of 19 times, and that doesn’t surprise me because he’s been very active. He’s zoomed 52 posts and has been adding friends.

Writing Catchy Titles

Letting users submit their own work is great because each of you has 100% control over the content you’re submitting. I can tell you right now that I’ve seen at least 100 submissions that would have hit the front page with a better title. I usually check the posts out if I see any potential, but a catchy title can seal the deal for you. Here are some of the highest zoomed posts so far:

• StumbleUpon - The “Super Stumble” Traffic Tip
• Blogging Zoom Bringing The Man Down
• Money-Hungry Kumiko Acts Like Blogging is a Business | Pajama Professional
• 35 Guaranteed Ways to Increase Your RSS Subscribers
• Attention Websmasters - Do you socialize? Want to make it easier?
• 5 technology disasters, horrors and tragedies
• The Life of a Black Hatter

As you can see, the headlines of these posts are really great. The importance of your post headlines is enormous, and I wanted to refer you to a fantastic resource that can help you to write headlines that are 1000 times better. 10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work is an article on CopyBlogger that can help you to capture massive interest with your headlines.

We’re Here To Help You

Vic and I have both been working almost around the clock to ensure that you guys are able to achieve as much success as possible with BZ. We will continue to do that. If you have questions about Blogging Zoom, we are both willing to help. All you have to do is ask.