Traffic Zombie Product

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

ShaneRQR,

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

Togdil

Just took the plunge and invested in TZ.

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

David

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

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

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!

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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


Thanks,
Andrew

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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?

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

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)

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

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

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, 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

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

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,

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, 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

Post edited after being taken care of by Brian personally.

~Dexx

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

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

Cheers,
Mukul

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

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

Just received a couple of promos about this.

Anyone using it with good results?

Sandy

Will you be offering a version we can host ourselves?

I have purchased so many things in the past where developers have abandoned after a few months, the idea sounds great but I would personally only buy if we could host it ourselves...

Majestic12, there's two options inside of the new Traffic Zombie (both included for free). One is where we host it on a separate page for you, while the other is where you can embed it on your existing site within the site or as a pop-in.

And as far as abandoning projects after a few months, I hear you! I know lots of developers and marketers do that stuff, but we don't. The first version of Traffic Zombie was made around 5 years ago and never abandoned once. The new version was just released, and we don't plan on abandoning it. We've had lots of other tools that we've maintained over the years as well. We have an internal programming team, so we don't make a quick project and just leave.

- Brian