Check Out BloggingZoom’s New Look
January 30, 2008
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In the process of trying to bring you the best blogging tips, I’ve constantly mentioned that all of your posts should be submitted to BloggingZoom, and when I looked at my site this morning, I noticed an updated BloggingZoom graphic to show how many times each of my sites had been ‘zoomed’. Very cool looking, too.
Then I had a look at the site to see if things had gotten back to normal after they got hacked last week. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that they’d done a complete re-work of the site! And I love the new look.
If you’ve never submitted your posts to BZ before, it’s something that you should start doing. Regularly. Unless you’re a big name blogger, what do you realistically think are the chances that your posts will make it to the front page of Digg? I’ll give you a hint: it ain’t likley.
With BZ, on the other hand, a lot of my regular readers came directly from the site, and any time that you can get exposure for your blog, it just eventually leads to more traffic.
I’m in the process of getting another niche site setup, and you better believe that everything that I post there is going to wind up getting submitted to BloggingZoom. I really believe that BZ is even more useful for more specialized niche blogs than just the standard “blog about blogging” or “make money online” blog.
Court and Vic do have one rule about BZ, that, while it was always in place, wasn’t being enforced - but it is now. When you submit a post to BZ, don’t just copy and paste directly from your post into the details box on BloggingZoom. You’ll get one warning if you do this now, and after that you’re banned. I’ll admit that this was I did in the past, until I got an email detailing how they want things done from now on.
So, write an original description of your post when you’re submitting it, because you definitely don’t want to get banned from the site.
It’s just too valuable a resource.
Good work guys, I love the new look.
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January 30th, 2008 at 8:42 am
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Imagine my surprise when I discovered both a new BloggingZoom graphic, and, in fact, a completely new design of the site this morning. Court and Vic have done some excellent work getting the site back online after getting hacked last week, and it…
January 30th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Thanks for the tip about putting in an orginal description not a copy and paste job. Fortunately I haven’t done that, but who knows when the temptation to speed things up a bit might have pushed me over to the darkside.
And yes, I love the new look.
I do have a question you might answer. I used the plug-in for bloggingzoom on a post while the site was down. I couldn’t figure out what was happening. So I didn’t submit the post. However when the site came back up, the plug-in worked. Meanwhile some one must have clicked on the banner and when I finally looked back I had a zoom of nine. Is this just from people visiting the site and clicking or does it have to come from someone with a bloggingzoom account? It also doesn’t show under my stats at the site.
Nick
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January 31st, 2008 at 7:05 am
Looks good to me - i’ll have to go back and check that out again
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February 4th, 2008 at 6:55 am
I signed up a while back and didn’t check it out until yesterday. I submitted one of my posts and someone picked it up and submitted it to Stumbleupon. The result, 500 more visitors than my average 150 a day. I think I will start using it more often now.
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February 15th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Nick: I believe that for the zoom to count that they have to be a registered member on BZ, but I don’t know that for certain. Vic or Court would be better able to answer that question.
As for the ‘no more copy and paste rule’, I actually prefer it to be honest. It doesn’t take me that long to come up with a bit of an original description of what the post is about.
Thanks very much for your comment.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Thanks for the feedback, Stephan. It’s great when it works out that way, isn’t it? Glad to hear that it’s bringing traffic into your site.