Gary Pettit

Has anyone purchased or used Traffic Zombie? Any opinions or input on this product would be greatly appreciated. Would be nice to know what peoples thoughts are...it looks different from other traffic products I've seen lately. It's being marketed as a SEO, Backlinker, Viral Marketer, and Traffic program.

briankoz

I obviously might be a bit bias, but I can tell you some of the results from some of my own test results and some insider stuff from Mike's test results as well that he didn't share.

We both were getting 20% to 33% across a few different campaigns of visitors to our sites leaving a targeted backlink to us (that's 1 in 5 to 1 in 3 visitors leaving us targeted backlinks). Tons of the backlinks end up coming from a mix of blogs including several with high page rank.

As for traffic, all of our campaigns have gotten steady traffic solely from the viral links and exposure we got (which results in even more exposure and links), and when I used an opt-in form at the end of one of my campaigns, it still gets new leads each day.

As for rankings, Mike shared part of the results but left out some important things to note (and semi embarrassing) -- he got a first page #6 ranking on Google for a competitive term with about 40 million competitors listed (and it appears to be on the rise as this is better than a week or two ago), but here's what he didn't touch on as much:

The webpage that he used on the test was a brand new domain name (Google rarely favors new domains), it was a simple landing page with no on page SEO (landing pages don't tend to rank well, especially new ones), and (a bit embarrassing) he initially forgot to even have a title tag on it (so it was "Untitled") until just a week or so ago (this can hurt rankings big time and it still got a top listing).

It's completely different than anything out there and is kind of a combination of a viral, backlink, and traffic generator.

- Brian

CDarklock

Just wanted to point out I have nothing to do with this product.

Gary Pettit

Yes...I did purchase Traffic Zombie. I agree that it's like nothing I've seen before but I was wondering what other peoples thoughts were who have seen this or purchased. I haven't had much of a chance to use it as of yet, but it does look VERY promising! One thing I wish it did that it doesn't (as far as I can tell) is to integrate some sort of way to bring traffic to the campaigns that you create (maybe in a future update). It's more of a campaign creater(at this moment) rather than a traffic generator. But in all fairness, it does have the potential to be a MASSIVE traffic generator once you figure out and bring your own traffic to the campaigns you create within the software.

Haroon Ballim

Hi

Received an email advertising this product . Considering it but would like to know how easy and user friendly the programme is .. Also considering the price does anyone feel it is worth the price being asked

Thanks
H

David Walker

I am sure it won't be long before Google latches onto this and at the very least discounts the links this system generates.

Having numerous identical blog posts with the exact same link and anchor text is going to leave a pretty big footprint and is likely to be classed as link manipulation.

Anyone care to disagree?

David

Gary Pettit

Yes...if your lucky enough to get in with the 50% off sale($97), it's worth the price. However, theirs another $97 upsell that upgrades your software that makes the program really worth having! The upsell includes 100 campaigns(instead of 10) and free hosting so you don't have to keep uploading your campaigns via ftp and also a survey module. So when all said and done, the real price is $194 instead of $297. I just hope that the creators stay on top of updates and support as well as including new features.

Gary Pettit

Hi David,

You can actually login an edit all your campaigns on the fly. Change your blog postings,keywords,anchor text and everything else. This will ad variety to blog postings and anchored test if you take advantage of it

White Dove Creative

Hey Brian,

On getmynewsletterfree.com which is a live site
utilizing Traffic Zombie, I noticed a
"Powered By Traffic Zombie" hotlinked button.

Do your Traffic Zombie customers have the option
of removing that button?

Gary Pettit

Yes...You have 3 options! Text Link, Image Link or No Link! However, it ties into your affiliate link automatically and you get 50% commisions for all sales

White Dove Creative

Thanks for the info!

@sparkie2260:

So if the $194 upgraded version is hosted on the vendor's website,
then is the $97 basic version a script which we install on our own site?

Thanks for sharing your experience with this product
and be sure to report back here to let us know
how you do with it!

Gary Pettit

Yes...after you create a campaign you will click on the campaigns button. A list of all your created campaigns will show. After each campaign there will be 4 buttons (Embed, Stats, Edit, Delete). If you don't have the upgraded version you would click on Embed and copy paste the code and upload it. However, if you have the upgraded version of the software, you will also see a clickable url below each campaign that is a link to your offer(free hosting). The basic software only comes with 10 campaigns and the upgraded software comes with 100 campaigns. You can always edit and delete as you like but can never go over the amount of campaigns you have(depending on which version you buy) As you can see, for $97 more it's much beter. **PLUS**...you get a completely NEW advertising module that creates surveys on the fly and offers your customers products of your choice based on their answers...pretty sweet huh?

PS: On one of the videos somewhere it was mentioned that the price will eventually be increasing due to the hosting costs and demands. I'm not sure about their refund policy but if your on the fence this would be without a doubt the best time to get in...especially with the one time payment and 50% off the basic. Hope that helps

briankoz

Just wanted to clarify a few things and correct a few mistakes that were mentioned:

1. You NEVER have to upload anything with FTP whether you buy the upsell or not. In fact, either way Traffic Zombie is hosted on our servers. Without the upsell, you simply paste in some code on your site and that's it -- no FTP or anything. The upsell includes three things -- 100 campaigns instead of 10 for TZ, the ability for us to host the webpages that the TZ scripts are used on (otherwise you'd obviously need your own website or blog -- even a blogger blog -- but the upsell option allows you to use webpages that we give you to edit as you please), and most importantly a cool viral survey tool. But by itself, the TZ script will work great -- you don't need to upgrade to get the survey tool. I believe one of the above commenters was a bit mistaken in what he thought it was.

2. You don't have to have a "Powered by Traffic Zombie" link -- that's completely optional, but if you do decide to have that on your TZ script, you automatically get credit for any sales from that as an affiliate.

3. As for all the links being the same -- that's not the case. In fact, TZ has an option where it randomly changes the keyword anchor text if you so wish. On top of that, there's an option to allow the user to link back to you using any random anchor texts while also being able to enter ANY text they want on top of that to make it completely unique (we didn't have that option on the demo but it is one of the options). In addition, having tons of top notch places like blogs post back to you, even if it's the same article (if you decide to do it that way and use the same post / article) has a HUGE SEO advantage, especially when they come from respected sites which this will accomplish for you. But just to give you a heads up, we'll also eventually be adding some cool features to make this part even more powerful than it already is and allow you to have multiple different specific blog posts or even spin them if need be, but by themselves, it's done nothing but help our rankings and traffic even as is.

The fact that a brand new domain name with crappy on page SEO got ranked so fast and stayed there (and continues to rise) above 40,000,000 other sites says a lot I think.

And for those of you who are still a bit confused, just go to the site and try out the script to see for yourself. Keep in mind that we're only using half the options you'll have in that demo, but you should get the point after seeing it.

- Brian

David Walker

Thanks to both Sparkie and Brian for your detailed responses.

I don't dispute Traffic Zombie's credentials for traffic generation, I imagine it would work very, very well if you can get positioned on authority blogs, Twitter accounts etc.

If I were to use it, I'd use a domain name that I don't rely on the search engines for traffic in case Google doesn't like it - a "Powered by Traffic Zombie" link is a pretty big footprint Google could wipe out overnight.

The future options, such as post rotation, spinning and the anchor text variation make it more appealling.

David

briankoz

Hey David,

Just to clarify a few things, with our tests, we did get some awesome placements on high PR blogs, some good twitter accounts, facebook, etc. -- if you use some of our other options, it can get you exposure in other areas too like forums.

As for the "powered by Traffic Zombie" -- that's completely optional and is only on your site if you want (not the sites linking to you) and there's absolutely NO footprint even if you use it due to how the code was done (Google can't see what's on the TZ code). And even if there was (which there's not), it's not something that they'd care about as it's getting you legitimate exposure from legit sites.

As for the keyword anchor text rotation -- that's not a future option -- that's a current option. You can also allow users to write unique posts using your link or rotating anchor text as well currently. The only future option that we thought would be cool is to allow you to spin it all but it's really just a nice little extra feature and what's there now does the job awesome.

Brian

David Walker

Thanks again Brian.

It's a very interesting concept and something I will consider using on a domain that I don't "mind" if it gets nuked from Google's index.

David

Gary Pettit

Hi David,

I agree with you also! It don't think it would ever take the place of super powerful seo software like senuke or EVO 2(with all their different modules), but it does have it's place! It seems very good for putting a new twist on affiliate marketing through social sites...kind of fun and whimsical...lol. I utimately went with the upsell because I didn't want to past the code on my own sites.

togdil

I would be glad if somebody would clarify a few points about TZ

• I understand that I have to offer some gifts for getting other sites to link back to me. Where do I get such gifts to give away?

• Who are the 'users' who backlink to me? Are they also members of TZ?
  
  If so, this would mean that I also will have to post their links to my sites. Sort of a link exchange.
  
  If not, then how would other sites find my campaigns and link back to me?

• Can I use TZ to get traffic to my already running sites which may or may not have any affiliate products on them? Can I use this for CPALead offers?

Sorry if I sound like a noob which I am. So I would request you to please bear with me and help me decide.

Thanks in advance
Togdil

Justin Wheeler

Have just picked this up this evening. It looks very very impressive and well thought out and I have just started playing with it.

You can get gifts from any number of Resell Rights sellers or you can use your own created products.

Users are anyone who sees your Traffic Zombie page however you drive traffic to that, be it twitter, your blog, your mailing list, facebook etc.

You can use it on any site, bear in mind you are trying to get people to retweet or blog about your offering so you need to have something relevant to give away in exchange.

Going to play with it a bit moe this evening and then mail out to my list tomorrow assuming results look interesting.

Thirty3Down

I've been playing with it for about two days now...
I'm digging it so far.

I've got a few campaigns rolling out soon that will be using it. I'll post my results when I get them.

togdil

Thanks for your detailed reply which clarified almost everything I wanted to know. However I have one question if I may.

If I understood it correctly I have to drive traffic to my campaign/websites myself.

If I can drive traffic myself and offer visitors gifts then what does TZ do for me? The main reason I would like to go for it is to get me traffic. Hope I am making myself clear here about what I mean to say.

I am not prejudging the product or anything like that and I am almost decided to go for it as it is far cheaper than other products which are subscription sites while this is a one-time payment - correct me if I am wrong.

However this is a big decision for me so I am sorry to ask questions here and hope somebody who already has it and used it can give me some pointers.

Thanks in advance

And all the best
Togdil

ShaneRQR

togdil,

what Traffic Zombie does for you is provide a system that incentivizes people to promote your offer. They can send out a tweet and get your gift or bonus or rebate in return. Or they can publish a blog-post and get the gift. Or they can post a facebook update and get the gift.

TZ automates this process, so that people can claim their gift immediately and you don't have to go and check whether they've actually posted/tweeted/facebooked.


If I can give you a bit of advice: If you don't have existing offers (plural) and existing campaigns (again, plural) with existing traffic streams, then I don't think TZ is right for you.
Also, if you don't understand what it does from the sales-page, you probably need to work on some basic skills, first.


TZ will not magically create traffic for you. What it does is take your existing traffic and give you a tool to multiply that or turn it into backlinks.

I'm not a TZ customer, by the way, but I'm pretty sure I "get" what the system does, as I wanted to develop something similar.

togdil

ShaneRQR,

Thanks for your advice. It seems I will have to study this thing deeply before deciding.

Togdil

KrisMainieri

Have been using Traffic Zombie For 3 days and have already received over 400 visitors to my squeeze page (ALL from TZ)...

I ask my crowd to help me "share my message" in exchange for a wordpress squeeze page.



Working beautiful so far.

Let me know if this helps,

KM

David Walker

Just took the plunge and invested in TZ.

Just need to come up with a little project now to test it out...

David

salamony86

I'm wondering, is the traffic zombie only good for Internet marketing niche?

briankoz

Salamony, Traffic Zombie works in any niche out there. In fact, some non-internet marketing niches would perform even better as there'd be less competition.

Virtually any site, regardless of the niche, that could benefit from more traffic, higher rankings, more backlinks, and more exposure can benefit, and I believe that would cover just about all sites.

- Brian

jimbeau

Brian,

I've had a look at Zombie and it looks very promising. In trying to decide about using/buying it, I have developed a couple of questions.

I'm working a couple of JVs with a partner. I would like to use the links on both his sites and mine. So as long as I have rights to access his sites, I would assume that I can use Zombie on his sites - is that correct?

From what I've read here on the forum, there are a number of advantages to getting the "upgraded" version. These descriptions have come from more than one person. So, in spite of all you have written, it is not quite clear what these advantages/features are - could you elucidate further?

Finally, I am reasonably technical. I am more comfortable with hosting Zombie on my own server, for control reasons. Is there anything in the software or the license which prevents that?

Thanks, I'm very much looking forward to the answers!

Sincere thanks, Jim

briankoz

Jim,

You can post the Traffic Zombie code on any site you have access to. So if you have a partner that you both own a site, it's fine if you want to post your TZ code on that site.

You can paste the TZ code on any site you want, but the tool itself where you get that code from stays on our servers to make things a lot easier for customers and to allow us to update it in real time if need be (we have a variety of cool features in mind that we'll be doing soon). The special deal we have going now is for a one time lifetime access price instead of a monthly fee to access this tool, but it's still web based to make it easier on our clients. From our experience, this always works out much easier and better for all.

As for the upgraded version, I clarified it a bit before, but I'll try to do so again here:

1. Both versions have the exact same TZ tool (it's not like the upgraded one has more features than the normal TZ), but the basic one allows you to have 10 campaigns at a time instead of 100 campaigns at a time with the upgraded version.

2. The upgrade comes with a different tool that is essentially a survey maker with some very cool features that will help affiliates and product owners make more money from visitors, find out what their visitors / lists really want, have the survey go viral, and increase affiliate commissions using a cool feature on it. You can easily use this with TZ, but it works outside of TZ as well. We even host the surveys ourselves so there's no installation or anything needed.

3. The upgrade comes with the ability for us to host webpages for you that we easily allow you to edit to put your TZ tool on. So if you have your own website, you just need to paste your TZ code on it wherever you want it (with the basic or upgrade version if you wish), but with the upgrade version, you have the option of also creating a webpage within our editor that will have the TZ code already pasted in and the webpage already hosted for you so you wouldn't even need a website. I'd imagine that the first two benefits will be more popular -- this 3rd benefit is just for those who don't have any sites at all or want to use the script on a site other than one of their own.

Hope that clears it up a bit.

- Brian

jimbeau

Thanks, Brian - that is exactly what I needed to know in a nutshell!

Regards, Jim

Gary Pettit

Thanks for your clarification Brian...Traffic-Zombie is such a new kind of traffic and marketing concept, I think a lot of us initally have a hard time understanding exactly what it does.
You also have me curious about the cool new features you stated above that will be added soon. So far I'm very impressed...a very solid piece of marketing software!

graphicsgenie

Still deciding whether or not to take the plunge.

Darren

Ken Strong

Really? Then why do you have a WSO promoting it?

briankoz

Just to clarify the KenStrong and GraphicsGenie posts -- GraphicsGenie (Darren) pm'd me asking for official permission for him to make a video squeeze page for Traffic Zombie affiliates for him to sell (the squeeze page -- not TZ). I said we were cool with that, and his video looked pretty cool I might add.

I don't know if he actually bought it or not, but in his defense, Ken, his WSO appears to simply just be selling the PLR to a landing page and video that he made for it so we were okay with him doing that.

- Brian

graphicsgenie

Thanks Brian, couldnt have said it better myself.

Not in a position to be able to argue with the MODS

Thanks again

Darren

jjcali

TZ sounds very promising and I'm ready to try it.

To use TZ, why do I have to install TZ code on my web pages / sites?

briankoz

Hey jjcali,

To answer your question, you don't have to install anything on your site(s). You just paste some code on your site or blog and it literally takes less than a minute to do. The other option, if you don't want to place any code on your site, is to take the special offer which as part of that offer, it will allow you to host webpages on special domains on our server.

As to why you have to put the code on your site, there's not really another way to get the script on your site.

- Brian

jjcali

Hi Brian,

I am still confused. Why do I have to paste TZ code on my site or host webpages on your server for TZ to work?

I am using other link building software that doesn't require this. Can you please explain?

briankoz

Hey jjcali,

TZ is a script that works by getting viral traffic and viral backlinks to your site. The easiest thing to do to understand it is to just watch the video and then actually use the script itself which is on the sales page for all to demo -- just go to www.Traffic-Zombie.com to check it out.

I think you'll get the idea of it after using it.

- Brian

Amitywill

I haven't bought Traffic Zombie yet but I am
impressed with it.

***TIP***

I think using Traffic Zombie on your squeeze page would
hurt your optin rate.

So I would personally use it on my optin form thank you
page.

On the thank you page I'd offer them something free if they
help my squeeze page go viral by taking action through Traffic
Zombie.

That way your optin rate stays high on the squeeze page but you
can still use TZ to get that extra traffic by leveraging your
own subscribers.

I think this is the best way to do use TZ and the way I'm going
to use it on my next project.

Will

briankoz

Hey Will,

Traffic Zombie isn't meant to replace an opt-in page, but it certainly could be setup like one if you wanted. And it certainly can be used to get opt-ins (we allow opt-in boxes to be integrated with TZ if you want).

It's meant to be used to give away some kind of a bonus in exchange for targeted backlinks and extra exposure, so there's a huge viral aspect to it. I've used it in a way similar to what you were suggesting (utilizing existing subscribers to help make it go viral), as well as on a page itself with normal visitors.

Both can get great results, but I wanted to make sure that people weren't thinking this would always be in place of a squeeze page.

- Brian

Jamus McKenna

MODERATOR: You can't post in this thread while promoting your affiliate link for the same product in your sig.

Your previous posts were deleted for a reason. Don't keep re-posting again. Read the forum rules.

rondo

Brian is there an option in TZ for people to send traffic using a simple referal link?


Thanks,
Andrew

briankoz

Hey Rondo / Andrew,

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking, but I'll try to answer the two questions that I think you might be asking.

TZ itself allows you to have visitors to your site send additional traffic and get targeted backlinks to it by doing tweets, facebook posts, blog posts, forum posts, etc. in order to receive some kind of a bonus that you give them. If you go to our website at www.Traffic-Zombie.com, you'll see a demo script up there that you can actually use in real time (in this case, we give you a coupon code for using it but you should get the basic idea).

Now if you're asking if we have an affiliate program to send referral traffic to us, yes, we have that as well.

If I misunderstood you on what you're asking, feel free to let me know or pm me.

- Koz

briankoz

Hey Andrew,

That actually already is an option as one of the default settings so you can have them send any link / referral link you want anywhere as well. That's all completely customizable and already part of TZ. For the demo on the sales page, we just showed off a few of the options to make it easier.

- Koz

rondo

Thanks Brian. I found a video showing the admin interface so I think I have my answer.
I was hoping the "Link Referral Method" would generate a unique referral link they could take and place in emails etc, but it appears that it doesn't.


Andrew

briankoz

Hey Andrew,

I'm not fully sure what you're asking or looking for, but with TZ, you can have them place any kind of link that you want them to spread anywhere you want. If you're looking for each link to be unique to each person, there are round-about ways of doing that, but we can look into adding other features like that if there's a valid reason to use it.

It sounds like you're looking to track individual referrals from each person. That's more like some of the normal affiliate links or "refer-a-friend-for-a-bonus" type scripts that from my experience aren't nearly as effective, as people would rather do a quick post to Twitter, for instance, than refer several friends for a bonus.

If you think about it, would you rather be forced to get five referrals through your affiliate link for a bonus (knowing that it wouldn't be instant as you either have to wait for the referrals or make up fake ones), or would you rather instantly get the bonus by doing a simple tweet, facebook post, mentioning a link anywhere, blog post, etc. with one click? Not only does it seem that people prefer that a lot, but the viral component to it and the additional backlinks that you get from it are huge.

If you're interested in having us maybe add an individual tracker to it (we do have overall tracking of total clicks and all that) with unique referral links for each visitor, feel free to pm me a couple reasons of why you think that'd be beneficial and I'd be happy to take a look.

- Koz

rondo

Thanks Brian. The main reason I wanted unique referral links was so they could be placed in emails.
No worries, I can still use TZ for one of my other projects so I'll buy it anyway!


Andrew

Dexx

Hey Brian, great looking product you've got there!

One question tho, how does your script work with affiliate systems like Clickbank or Rapid Action Profits in terms of the coupon discount and still giving credit to the affiliate that sent them?

Or does Traffic Zombie work with affiliate systems like that? (vs its own system for crediting affiliate traffic)

briankoz

Hey Dexx,

Traffic Zombie can be used to virally distribute any link(s) (whether it be an affiliate link, a coupon link, a normal link, etc.) or message(s) that you want. It doesn't really matter where that link came from, even Clickbank or any other place.

You don't have to use it to give out a coupon -- you can use it to give out a bonus or any other reason you can think of that would motivate visitors to use TZ in exchange for something you give them.

In your example with Clickbank, if the vendor had a special discount page, you would just put the reward as that discounted Clickbank affiliate link in there and you'd be fine. I think you might have been misunderstanding it a bit, but hopefully that clears it up.

- Koz