Dexx

Ahhh I see, I did misunderstand the system, I was under the impression that the system was the one that generated the coupon (going off of Mike Fs example site)

So essentially the "Zombie Master" (lol) is just creating page and then the script redirects to the corresponding page for the script? (i.e. a discounted offer page)

And if someone is using a sales system that allows coupons, then script would forward the person to the page (or area) that has that coupon code displayed for use within th system...is this a correct understanding?

Also, is the system limited to just twitter / facebook / blog backlinks? Or can a link on any type of website be found also?

briankoz

Let me try to explain it a bit better...

Traffic Zombie basically allows you to give out an incentive (a coupon, a free report, a newsletter sign up, etc. -- anything you want) in return for the visitor to your site either writing a tweet, facebook post, blog post, link on any site (their site, a forum, etc.), or whatever else you want (you can choose as the admin what you want to allow).

With one click, they can do all of this stuff from YOUR website (for instance, they can click a button and do a tweet from your website that you have the TZ script on), and it instantly verifies that they did it and will instantly reveal their reward within the TZ script. There's no need to have another webpage or link or anything like that to forward to -- it can reveal it all within the TZ script itself much like how we revealed the coupon code on the Traffic Zombie sales page itself.

From our own testing on a variety of different sites, anywhere from 20% to 33% of visitors to your website using TZ will leave at least one link, post, etc. back to you, and a significant amount of viral traffic can come from this.

It's basically like a refer-a-friend on steroids without requiring people to actually refer their friend's e-mails (which rarely works well -- often they're just fake e-mails if anything), doesn't require them to wait hours or days to receive their bonus, and at the same time provides you with targeted backlinks to help with your search engine rankings and more visitors virally.

It's worked out better than we originally expected, and there are a ton of creative things you can do with it even outside of the methods that we talk about.

- Koz

Dexx

Ahhh I see, I see

So $97 for 10 campaigns and a $97 upsell for an additional 90 campaigns and survey module (for those interested)

Are there any plans for new additional / new features, and will those updates be free with the one-time payment? (or only limited to those that purchase the upsell?)

Looks like a great product, I'm just more wondering who the ideal candidate for the upsell would be? (as of right now that is)

briankoz

Hey Dexx,

If you get the 50% off coupon code by using the live demo example on the sales page, it's $97 for up to 10 campaigns, but you can edit any of those campaigns and turn them into another (but you can only have 10 going at a time).

For the $97 upsell, you can have a total of 100 campaigns that you can have live at once (but keep in mind, you can still change campaigns and turn them into new ones at anytime).

You also get an extra tool with the upsell which is a survey tool where you can easily create online surveys (that we host -- similar to Survey Monkey which is a paid monthly service), but it has some money making and viral features to it where you can increase affiliate earnings, specify a unique "end page" on the survey based on their responses (so you can give customized offers to those who take the survey and answer it a certain way), and you can easily integrate Traffic Zombie into it and have your survey go viral.

And yes, we do plan on adding extra features like additional ways to get unique content to spread virally among others, and we plan on including free features like that.

- Koz

White Dove Creative

Brian,
waiting on your reply to my gmails and PM...

Klemen

I was wondering how this tool bypasses facebook API TOS, since it states here:

IV. Application Integration Points
1. You must not incentivize users to use (or gate content behind the use of) Facebook communication channels, or imply that an incentive is directly tied to the use of our channels.


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Tribsel

anyone still using this? I was testing it on one of my not so important domains.

And guess what happened? Site got almost to the top for selected keywords and was there for a month or two. Today its all flushed away. sitting in a galaxy far far away.... on google's search results page number whatever.

reason can be just the one. because i was not using any other link building methods for this one.

AND guess what? My account is not there anymore. Their system says i have either wrong password or email. I dont.

briankoz

Tribsel, if you go to the TZ sales page, we give a live example of what TZ can do and show rankings that have only gone up (from scratch) using TZ and staying (while also improving) using TZ. There's nothing fishy about it -- it imitates the natural backlinks you'd get from when others mention your site.

There are a ton of ways you can go about it from letting them make up a post of their own with your link, having pre-written posts, tweets, facebook posts, blog posts, etc. -- whatever you want, and each has its pros and cons, which is why I personally recommend a combination of them all.

As for rankings, you said you got it to rank well for select keywords for a couple months before dropping, and you for some reason blame it all on this for dropping. If you've followed what others have been saying in the last couple months even on the Warrior Forum, Google changes up their algorithms now and then and some sites naturally can go up and down -- you can't blame it JUST on a natural-imitating tool.

One of the big factors of maintaining rank is on page SEO as well as how the visitors to your page act (if they leave after a second and click on the site below you, that can hurt). If you have no on page SEO or didn't continue using TZ to get more backlinks, it won't magically get the backlinks by themselves.

Again, there's nothing sneaky about this -- it's just a tool to encourage others to leave you backlinks on their sites, on twitter, on facebook, etc. with no footprint or anything like that, so it'd be the same thing as if people naturally started talking about your site.

We have tons of positive feedback on the tool and lots of people having great success with it, including us personally.

As for your account / password, did you try contacting the support e-mail? support [at] traffic-zombie.com? They'd be happy to help you whether you lost a password or whatever else is up. 99.9% of the time it's either a typo on the password or e-mail (sometimes people use a paypal e-mail which isn't their normal e-mail and forget that) or their payment didn't go through (in which case you shouldn't have had access to it to begin with).

Brian

Dexx

Hey Brian, any comment on Klement's post above?

I'm considering using TZ for my new resource site, but hesitant if it will be a violation of TOS...

~Dexx

briankoz

Dexx, we checked into the TOS of all the places that we allowed users to use and still believe that they're all in line with it as, using Facebook as an example, we're not having them mail or communicate with their friends directly -- they post it on their own walls.

And having said that, you don't have to allow Facebook posts as an option -- we got awesome results from allowing users to post the link on their blogs, twitter, or anywhere else online (and with their own blogs, there's obviously no TOS to even consider).

Brian

Tribsel

Hi,

I am aware of what can (or could) TZ do and it probably did the same for me - for several months as I said before.

Why did I think that sudden disappering of my site from first page is related to using TZ?
Because I was (I AM) still using it, nothing was changed on site and I was not using any other form of off-site seo / linkbuilding. Just natural links + TZ.
Now - homepage of my site is not there anymore - after several months of steady climb), but some subpages are - starting from search result page no. 4

I know - many things could happen, but I think its logical to suspect that TZ could be the cause.

briankoz

Tribsel,

TZ leaves absolutely no footprint so it's not possible for it to hurt a site's rankings, as it gets real users to build backlinks -- these aren't from farms, autoblogs, etc. like some other link-building strategies that can backfire.

I would suspect that it might be an issue on your webpage itself. Google sometimes changes algorithms and recently they started to hit hard on a number of different site layouts including landing page type sites among a few others (even sites that are way more than a landing page they are starting to hit hard), and I would suspect that it would be far more likely it was due to something like that.

We have TZ on several sites and have never seen anything bad happen -- only positive -- and we have never heard from any of our other many clients of anything bad happening, which is a very good sign.

And again, TZ itself doesn't do any weird backlinking or anything -- it's users that give you natural backlinks so unless Google starts to penalize you for natural backlinks, you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

Brian

Tribsel

oh, and about footprint - If you don't setup a huge number of keywords and anchor texts, then you are building a lot of links with same keywords and same anchor text. That may look artificial to google, but im just guessing.

briankoz

Tribsel, regarding your keywords and anchor text, TZ allows you to setup as many as you want. So if you're concerned about only have a couple, you can spend another minute or two and create as many as you want to rotate through.

However, having said that, many websites out there will link to other sites using the same or similar keywords. There's nothing unnatural about that which would leave a footprint (and that's not really what a footprint would be anyway).

But again, you can spend a minute or two and create as many as you want. You won't need a "huge number" at all. In a minute you can create a dozen or so which should be more than needed, but you can feel free to add more.

Brian

Dexx

Post edited after being taken care of by Brian personally.

~Dexx

briankoz

Hey Dexx,

Sorry to hear about Ed not getting back to you faster. Shannon is our main support person on TZ and if a customer asks for a refund, she first asks them if there's anything she can help with and then if still not, she passes it onto Ed to handle the refund because she has nothing to do with the billing.

Not sure what happened with Ed but I'll personally look into the matter if you e-mail me at brian [at] briankoz.com and give me your full name, e-mail that you signed up with, and receipt (or at least the first two so I can look it up) and get it taken care of tonight / tomorrow morning depending when I hear back from you.

But as a side note, you said that you bought on Dec. 3rd and refunded on the 4th after checking your statistics. If you're trying to use TZ for the viral traffic part of it, backlinks, and better rankings, it will take more than under 24 hours to see any results there. But either way we'll take care of that asap as Ed definitely should have gotten back to you within one business day from the first time.

- Brian

Mukul Verma

Sound interesting, anyone hear of similar systems to compare this too?

Cheers,
Mukul

briankoz

Hey Mukul,

Traffic Zombie is a very unique product, so there's nothing really to directly compare it to. The best explanation is that it's kind of a combination of a viral refer-a-friend, a backlink generator, and a viral traffic and PR generator all in one.

It gets people linking to you and talking about you, which spreads the word even more.

It's a cool concept that I thought up of from scratch trying to combine the benefits of all that stuff above. But you can see a demo of it on the sales page.

- Brian

Kevin Walker

Hi Brian, please see below. I'm not getting anything back from support so could you help me out please as I'm desperate to get started!!

Many thanks, Kevin Walker.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Walker [mailto:kewcotradingcompany@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: 22 February 2011 18:56
To: 'support@traffic-zombie.com'
Subject: RE: Details Regarding Your Recent Traffic-Zombie Purchase

Hi, I've just tried to log in and I'm told that no special characters are allowed and I assume this is due to my password having an * in it (this was accepted when I entered it at the sign up); but when I take this * out I'm told username/password is invalid.

Can you set this to rights please as I want to start using TZ ASAP?

Many thanks, Kevin Walker.

-----Original Message-----
From: support@traffic-zombie.com [mailto:support@traffic-zombie.com]
Sent: 22 February 2011 18:50
To: Kevin Walker
Subject: Details Regarding Your Recent Traffic-Zombie Purchase

Hello Kevin,

Thank you so much for your purchase of our Traffic Zombie membership. We know you're absolutely going to love it.

Purchase Summary
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Traffic Zombie Lifetime Membership $97.00

Best Regards,
Traffic-Zombie Team
support@traffic-zombie.com

Kevin Walker

I've now purchased Traffic Zombie and set it up and apart from a few minor glitches, which were easily overcome, it all went fine – although it did take 6 hours to fully set up and test! In the testing stages it tests out AOK and does everything it says it will ''on the box''.

However, in the training video there is no guidance on what to do once it is set up on my website - how to kick start it so-to-speak. I would naturally assume that I just post a tweet about it to all of my followers and off it goes - and this is what I've done. But, I was hoping for some guidance on this and especially how often to tweet about it - on the hour and every hour or once a day/week/month?

Also, as I understand it, my Tweet will go to my followers Home Timeline and not their Profile Timeline - is this correct? In which case the Tweet will disappear down the timeline in a matter of seconds and the chances of my followers seeing it are very, very slim!!?

So, the question is how can I make my Tweets ''sticky'' so my followers will have a better chance of seeing them? Is the use of some autotweeting software such as Tweetsbot the solution?

Many thanks for your help.

Regards, Kevin Walker.

briankoz

Hey Kevin,

It sounds like support took care of your stuff? If not, simply e-mail me at brian [at] briankoz.com, but support [at] traffic-zombie.com should always get back to you within one business day and they've always been awesome at that.

As for your other question, I think you might be misunderstanding exactly what you can do with Traffic Zombie. You can think of it like a very cool new age squeeze page but instead of just getting people to opt-in to your mailing list, you get them to also give you backlinks by doing tweets, facebook posts, blog posts, mentioning you in forums, as well as linking to you in other areas all virally in exchange for some kind of incentive.

As such, how you initially drive traffic to your TZ page is entirely up to you (just like any other squeeze page). Doing tweets on Twitter is just one way, but e-mailing a list, doing article marketing, PPC, organic SEO rankings, forum posts, etc. is just another way to drive traffic there. The cool part here is that you only need a little traffic there to jumpstart the viral component of it. From our testing, anywhere from 25% to 40% or so of the traffic to your site will leave you a link so it all goes viral from there.

We'll look into perhaps releasing a special video soon about how to drive the initial traffic there, but again, it's just like how you would do so to a squeeze page.

- Brian

Mystery777

Doesn't the "pre-written" blog review cause duplicate content penalty, for blogs that publish it, when it comes to the blog reviews feature of TZ?

They are essentially posting the same article. Any workarounds addressing that?