Anyone Else Experience Problems When Experimenting with Zeus's Blog Idea?

14 years ago

I've not read the Zeus thread you refer to, but there are a lot of sites around which offer free Wordpress blogs, which you might find meets your requirements in the same way as Blogger.

From a quick google, I found a link to this list:

List of Wordpress MU websites

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Rikki_Fawkes

14 years ago

Originally Posted by coco28

I've not read the Zeus thread you refer to, but there are a lot of sites around which offer free Wordpress blogs, which you might find meets your requirements in the same way as Blogger.

From a quick google, I found a link to this list:

List of Wordpress MU websites

Thanks - it's just that since Google loves Blogger so much, the income/traffic would be quicker, but maybe I will have to look elsewhere.

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marcus2929

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Rikki_Fawkes

Thanks - it's just that since Google loves Blogger so much, the income/traffic would be quicker, but maybe I will have to look elsewhere.

Try wordpress i have a main account on there and it lets you register multiple new accounts all within same dashboard, and google loves wordpress.

I have about 8 different blogs on there now all pointing towards a main website.

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Originally Posted by marcus2929

Try wordpress i have a main account on there and it lets you register multiple new accounts all within same dashboard, and google loves wordpress.

I have about 8 different blogs on there now all pointing towards a main website.

Please read WordPresses TOS. You CANNOT use WordPress, unless on your
own domain, for any monetization purposes.

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marcus2929

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

Please read WordPresses TOS. You CANNOT use WordPress, unless on your
own domain, for any monetization purposes.

I do not use it for monetization purposes i only use it for traffic, links, SERPS and because i enjoy it!

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Originally Posted by marcus2929

I do not use it for monetization purposes i only use it for traffic, links, SERPS and because i enjoy it!

Then they are useless for Zombie Blogging as the purpose of the tactic
is to make money.

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marcus2929

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

Then they are useless for Zombie Blogging as the purpose of the tactic
is to make money.

Point taken! but could you not use these to benifit zombie blogging?

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Kenwrites

14 years ago

Originally Posted by marcus2929

Point taken! but could you not use these to benifit zombie blogging?

The whole point to Zombie blogging is to keep it real basic and real simple.

But, as with any other program or system, there is always room to tweak, improve and garner better results.

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Kenwrites

The whole point to Zombie blogging is to keep it real basic and real simple.

But, as with any other program or system, there is always room to tweak, improve and garner better results.

Question...after you've drip fed your content into your WordPress blog, then
what?

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Kenwrites

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

Question...after you've drip fed your content into your WordPress blog, then
what?

I wasn't putting them in WP.

Just responding to Marcus, because he was asking if you could use WP to somehow drive traffic to the Zombie herd.

I imagine that you could, but then it wouldn't exactly be a Zombie at that point either. Obviously you would want better content on the blogger blog than the PLR.

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Rockmanfl

14 years ago

I'm giving this method a shot to see what my results are, but I'm doing things a little bit differently - instead of dripping content to post everyday, I'm posting a few days in a row- than taking a day off - this way it's a little more sparatic.

I am also making sure not to have it post at the same time everyday (this could be a clear indication that the blog is set to autopost, if it's set to always post at the same time).

I've taken adsense off for now, as suggested in the original post and will wait a few weeks before adding it.

I'm also using the IM niche, since this can be considered spammy at times.

I'm just starting with one blog right now, to see what happens - I'll let you know if I have any problems.

I'm just curious to see if Google will slap the blog or not

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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey

Why even try and use different accounts for different blogs? Whatever purpose it was for originally seems to be backfiring. I would recommend you stop trying to game the system, as they let you have as many blogs as you want anyway.

They also let you have as many accounts as you want. I have more than twenty. And Google's perfectly aware they're all related, too, because my Blogger dashboard for the main email account shows them all.

The purpose of using multiple accounts is to separate things a little, because there's an automated trigger at Blogger where if you get too many people reporting your blogs, then they ALL get shut down.

By keeping only six to twelve blogs per account, it's very unlikely anyone is going to trigger that shutdown on your account, and even if they do you're only going to lose a few blogs - not all of them. This is precisely the reason Google provides multiple accounts: to separate business operations.

I've heard of people losing hundreds of blogs all at once because they decide to try a new niche at Blogger, fire up a few blogs in that niche, and a bunch of people knee-jerk a spam report because of the subject.

Originally Posted by charlesburke

In all the replies so far, nobody has mentioned setting up blogs in subdomains at your own website.

Is that not doable? Or is there a downside to this that I'm not seeing?

Mostly that your own website costs money. Zombie Blogging was designed to be a completely free method.

However, several people are using Zombie Blogging in precisely this way, and a lot of people are getting good results from it. I've got a companion product in development that covers this modification.

Originally Posted by Rockmanfl

instead of dripping content to post everyday, I'm posting a few days in a row- than taking a day off - this way it's a little more sparatic.

This may have something to do with it. I usually set my blogs to post on a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday schedule... not every single day.

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dfs_dean

14 years ago

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I'm not doing Zombie Blogging, but I do have 8 Google accounts and a couple Blogger accounts. I have never had to phone verify anything so I'm curious about how the phone verification works. Do they just call the number you furnish and ask if you are a real person and what your intentions are, or what?

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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by dfs_dean

I have never had to phone verify anything so I'm curious about how the phone verification works. Do they just call the number you furnish and ask if you are a real person and what your intentions are, or what?

There are two methods: voice and text. In both cases, a machine calls you up on the number you provide and gives you a numeric code. You type this code into the form at Google, whack "submit," and continue as usual.

It's really simple and I don't see why people are scared of it.

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Dan C. Rinnert

14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

There are two methods: voice and text. In both cases, a machine calls you up on the number you provide and gives you a numeric code. You type this code into the form at Google, whack "submit," and continue as usual.

It's really simple and I don't see why people are scared of it.

Why does it have to be a cell phone rather than a landline?

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~kev~

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert

Why does it have to be a cell phone rather than a landline?

If you use a land line, whats to stop you from using a pay phone at a local corner store?

Need more phone numbers? Just walk down the street to the next pay phone.

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Dan C. Rinnert

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ~kev~

If you use a land line, whats to stop you from using a pay phone at a local corner store?

Need more phone numbers? Just walk down the street to the next pay phone.

For that matter, you could get multiple disposable cell phones, so that argument doesn't really hold up.

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14 years ago

Originally Posted by ~kev~

If you use a land line, whats to stop you from using a pay phone at a local corner store?

Being there to answer within 30 seconds of telling Google the number.

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~kev~

14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

Being there to answer within 30 seconds of telling Google the number.

And with todays wireless technology, that should not be a problem.

Last week my wife got one of those new google droid phones with unlimited internet access. Anywhere she can get cell phone service, she can get internet.

Then my step daughter has one of those verizon mini-laptops with built in wireless internet.

The difficult part is picking which gas station you want to stop at. Need a new phone number? How many pay phones are in your town?

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Rikki_Fawkes 14 years ago

"Just get disposable cell phones" No problem. After all, I have unlimited funds. Not a bad idea for the first few times, but still...

And I wasn't trying to "game" the system - in fact, my original intention was to dedicate only ONE Gmail account for ALL my Blogger blogs, when I read on Zeus's thread to limit them to five or so.

I guess I can try opening a Google account without a Gmail address (I see that's still an option on Google Accounts), but I still believe you have to verify with a phone number.

AND, if I go straight to Blogger and try to sign up - it says right on the signup sheet that it will create a Google Account, so I'll still be back to verifying.

I guess I could also try blogs on other platforms - but NOT Wordpress, as I've seen mentioned here, because, like Steven says, they don't allow monetization with AdSense (because we only post out of good will, I know).

Thanks for all the ideas, though I can't believe I'm one of the only ones who's run into the "two accounts per phone number" issue.
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14 years ago

Originally Posted by ~kev~

And with todays wireless technology, that should not be a problem.

The difficult part is picking which gas station you want to stop at. Need a new phone number? How many pay phones are in your town?

Exactly none.

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CDarklock 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert

Why does it have to be a cell phone rather than a landline?

It doesn't. But landlines don't do SMS, and the default verification method is SMS.
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jasonl70

14 years ago

you may find that you have as much luck with another blogging site. I found this to be true with videos - common belief is that gogole loves youtube, yet youtube consistantly ranks lower for me then the other video sites I use.

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Sandra Martinez

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Rikki_Fawkes

So I did. I didn't even get past three or four blogs per Gmail account, and I only started two accounts.

Then Blogger smacked me for suspicious activity or spamming or some such thing (even though I only posted on post per day). Google required me to confirm my account. And with what?

Are you using a proxy server or you are using the same ip for all of them?

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ExRat

14 years ago

Hi Rikki,

In the nicest possible way -

since Google loves Blogger

Do you know this for sure?

Let's say they do 'love' blogger. Would you allow someone to abuse something you loved? Would Google?

The point I'm trying to make is this.

I've spent quite some time conducting many experiments of my own, sometimes on quite a large scale (I would recommend that others try this method of learning too).

Once this became part of my regular activities, I have learnt that -

a) things move very fast on the internet - one of my most common activities is discarding things that I have come across and tested - quite often I look back and it seems quite obvious (in retrospect) why the project was either very short lived, or a complete waste of time

b) a method shared (widely) is a method halved (that's a conservative figure)

c) Google are not stupid - they have identified the type of content that improves their SERPs and that which doesn't and also many ways of making connections between different websites and their webmasters

d) as I trawl the forums I see many 'ideas' that I quickly pass by based on the experience I gain through my tests

Slightly cryptic questions -

If you only had a short, fixed, period of time left in this life and for some bizarre reason, the only thing you were allowed to do with that time was to build a single website which would act as your legacy to the world -

What would it be like?

Would it be a PLR drip-fed blog on blogger?

If not, why?

What's the difference between your current goals and therefore the way that you spend your time now, versus your goals and the way you would spend your time in the 'not much time left' hypothetical scenario outlined above?

Hope this helps.

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Rikki_Fawkes

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ExRat

Hi Rikki,

In the nicest possible way -

Do you know this for sure?

Let's say they do 'love' blogger. Would you allow someone to abuse something you loved? Would Google?

The point I'm trying to make is this.

I've spent quite some time conducting many experiments of my own, sometimes on quite a large scale (I would recommend that others try this method of learning too).

Once this became part of my regular activities, I have learnt that -

a) things move very fast on the internet - one of my most common activities is discarding things that I have come across and tested - quite often I look back and it seems quite obvious (in retrospect) why the project was either very short lived, or a complete waste of time

b) a method shared (widely) is a method halved (that's a conservative figure)

c) Google are not stupid - they have identified the type of content that improves their SERPs and that which doesn't and also many ways of making connections between different websites and their webmasters

d) as I trawl the forums I see many 'ideas' that I quickly pass by based on the experience I gain through my tests

Slightly cryptic questions -

If you only had a short, fixed, period of time left in this life and for some bizarre reason, the only thing you were allowed to do with that time was to build a single website which would act as your legacy to the world -

What would it be like?

Would it be a PLR drip-fed blog on blogger?

If not, why?

What's the difference between your current goals and therefore the way that you spend your time now, versus your goals and the way you would spend your time in the 'not much time left' hypothetical scenario outlined above?

Hope this helps.

I was only starting this as a "weekend warrior" type of thing, and this is before I launched my membership site which now takes most of my time when I'm not doing my own writing or YouTube videos for AdSense.

I was just hoping it would eventually be a source of passive income. No, it wasn't my life's goal, but since making money passively is, I thought it was a step in the right direction. Guess I took a misstep there.

And no, Google aren't stupid, but I tend to think they miss things when I type in a keyword and a thin landing page is the first result in organic search...

So yes, if I only had a limited time left in this world, it would be devoted to my membership site, because I have seen progress there and I think it has great potential. So maybe doing PLR blogging wasn't my best time investment but I thought I'd give it a shot - I guess it must've been something in Zeus's post about "stop complaining and get working" haha.

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Rikki_Fawkes 14 years ago

Oh - and I tried the proxy server thing to access EZA once - found out many of those proxy servers have been banned from even EZA's doors, so I was hesitant to try it with Google.
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Colin Theriot

14 years ago

Isn't this the method that CDarklock released as Zombie Blogging? If so, check that out - it might be more what you need. Essentially, if you're working these on blogger, you need to go with making many, many, many and even then it's not a good idea for your only or even a long-term ownership proposition.

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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Colin Theriot

Isn't this the method that CDarklock released as Zombie Blogging?

Yes, it is. John Schwartz and I released it as a JV, based on the threads in question.

Originally Posted by Rikki_Fawkes

My question is, has anyone else run into this problem, and if so, what did you do to fix it?

I've had to verify GMail accounts via cell phone, but it's worked fine for me through several accounts. I'm really not sure what's going on with some of these people who can't have more than one or two accounts per phone number.

I'm getting reports that people can't do more than four blogs without getting a phone verification, which isn't too far off what I'm seeing, but then they're being turned down for verification because there are too many accounts. I've had reports of people only being able to have four accounts, and only being able to have two accounts, and I sit over here with more than twenty GMail accounts wondering what exactly the difference is.

I have seen some people explain that they set up their blogs on spammy topics, which I can sort of understand, but not everyone is doing that. I'd like more information on this... topics you selected, schedule of your drip feed, that sort of thing. Could you give me a basic rundown of what you did, day by day, so I can ferret out the important parts?

And I believe Blogger only allows Gmail accounts, last I checked.

Blogger requires a Google account, but it doesn't have to be a GMail account. However... they sometimes phone-verify blogs, as well, so I don't think it will really make much of a difference. I tried an account based off an email at one of my own domains, and on blog #4 they wanted a phone number. I gave them the same one I always use, and it was fine.

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14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

Yes, it is. John Schwartz and I released it as a JV, based on the threads in question.

I've had to verify GMail accounts via cell phone, but it's worked fine for me through several accounts. I'm really not sure what's going on with some of these people who can't have more than one or two accounts per phone number.

I'm getting reports that people can't do more than four blogs without getting a phone verification, which isn't too far off what I'm seeing, but then they're being turned down for verification because there are too many accounts. I've had reports of people only being able to have four accounts, and only being able to have two accounts, and I sit over here with more than twenty GMail accounts wondering what exactly the difference is.

I have seen some people explain that they set up their blogs on spammy topics, which I can sort of understand, but not everyone is doing that. I'd like more information on this... topics you selected, schedule of your drip feed, that sort of thing. Could you give me a basic rundown of what you did, day by day, so I can ferret out the important parts?

Blogger requires a Google account, but it doesn't have to be a GMail account. However... they sometimes phone-verify blogs, as well, so I don't think it will really make much of a difference. I tried an account based off an email at one of my own domains, and on blog #4 they wanted a phone number. I gave them the same one I always use, and it was fine.

Step by step? It was a few months ago, but here's what I remember:

Weekend 1:

Pick 2 PLR Topics
Make Gmail account
Pick 2 blog addresses
Spend one Saturday and one Sunday drip-feeding 25 days' worth of articles.

Weekend 2: Rinse and repeat. I think I only got to blog 3 or 4 before I ran into trouble. I tried not to pick spammy topics - in fact, I even picked two that I myself had interest in: Cruise lines and paintball. Not exactly "how to lure customers with IM" material, IMO.

Thanks for the advice - and yes, I ran into the same trouble verifying my Blogger account period, even though it was Gmail - it didn't seem to make a difference, they still wanted verification.

Thanks for your help!

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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Rikki_Fawkes

Weekend 1:

Pick 2 PLR Topics
Make Gmail account
Pick 2 blog addresses
Spend one Saturday and one Sunday drip-feeding 25 days' worth of articles.

Weekend 2: Rinse and repeat.

That's very odd. I sat down and cranked out five zombie blogs in an hour one day, just to see how fast I could do it - and while Google did phone-verify me at one point, I didn't have any trouble. All those blogs are still running, in fact.

In general, I've had a lot of ZB customers come to me and report that they got exactly four blogs running before they got a request for phone verification - and then quit rather than verify by phone. You're the first person that's actually told me you tried to verify, but it didn't work... the two-account thing is certainly a new one on me. I've heard reports of only getting four accounts on a phone number, but only getting two seems awfully low.

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Okay, I am beyond confused.

I have 34 blogger blogs.

I do not have a Gmail account and have never had to confirm anything by
phone, email or anything.

Is this something that they just started because I feel like I am living in an
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John Rogers 14 years ago

my drive by post of the day...

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

I feel like I am living in an
alternate universe.

Steve, I've always been convinced that you live in an alternate universe!
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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

Is this something that they just started because I feel like I am living in an alternate universe.

I think it is relatively recent. I've also heard reports - which I cannot verify - that they really cracked down on people with lots of Blogger blogs a couple months ago, between the time Zeus started the threads and the time Zombie Blogging was released.

I'm actually starting to get concerned about the method now. When I ran my tests, things went fine. When Zeus ran his, things went fine. But there seems to be a lot of customer difficulty, and I'm never happy about that. I've been gratified to hear a lot of people doing well with modifications of the method, but honestly, it should work just as well out of the box... and it doesn't seem like it does.

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

I think it is relatively recent. I've also heard reports - which I cannot verify - that they really cracked down on people with lots of Blogger blogs a couple months ago, between the time Zeus started the threads and the time Zombie Blogging was released.

I'm actually starting to get concerned about the method now. When I ran my tests, things went fine. When Zeus ran his, things went fine. But there seems to be a lot of customer difficulty, and I'm never happy about that. I've been gratified to hear a lot of people doing well with modifications of the method, but honestly, it should work just as well out of the box... and it doesn't seem like it does.

What I don't get is this. I toss up a blog, put ONE article on it, monetize
it right away, and have no problems.

Baffles the hell out of me.

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Jeremy Kelsall 14 years ago

All of the Google Services start to verify accounts when they are getting "hammered" - more than likely a new software or something or another was released which triggered it...

It'll pass in a bit.
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14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

I'm actually starting to get concerned about the method now. When I ran my tests, things went fine. When Zeus ran his, things went fine. But there seems to be a lot of customer difficulty, and I'm never happy about that.

For what it's worth, I don't think it's customer difficulty and I also don't think it is the product either. My suspicion is that it was too many people starting the same basic concept at the same time.

You'll remember earlier I had purchased Zombie. I had also purchased one of Steven's products about the same time. Very similar concept on both, plus the thread Zeus put out. Got a feeling they had a major influx of drip-fed blogger blogs going up in a very short amount of time.

Virtually 3/4 of mine were wiped out overnight. For what it's worth though, they were fun..

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

That's very odd. I sat down and cranked out five zombie blogs in an hour one day, just to see how fast I could do it - and while Google did phone-verify me at one point, I didn't have any trouble. All those blogs are still running, in fact.

In general, I've had a lot of ZB customers come to me and report that they got exactly four blogs running before they got a request for phone verification - and then quit rather than verify by phone. You're the first person that's actually told me you tried to verify, but it didn't work... the two-account thing is certainly a new one on me. I've heard reports of only getting four accounts on a phone number, but only getting two seems awfully low.

Caliban, I just noticed that if I type in Zombie Blogging into Google, you
come up like third in the listings.

I just wrote an article and submitted it to EZA that should get you a
surge in traffic when it comes out and then when I put it on my blog.

The title - Is Zombie Blogging Dead?

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Kevin Caldbeck

14 years ago

Howdy

This might be a little of topic, but I post it because I understand your frustration.

I have 4 blogs I started all at the same time about 1.5 years ago. They are all setup using the same auto blogging script. Two of them have 1000's of pages each indexed in Google, the other two have "0" pages indexed.

The two which are not indexed have the most targeted posts. One of the indexed sites is total and complete trash.

I sure can't figure it out :confused:

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Sandra Martinez

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Zombie

Howdy

This might be a little of topic, but I post it because I understand your frustration.

I have 4 blogs I started all at the same time about 1.5 years ago. They are all setup using the same auto blogging script. Two of them have 1000's of pages each indexed in Google, the other two have "0" pages indexed.

The two which are not indexed have the most targeted posts. One of the indexed sites is total and complete trash.

I sure can't figure it out :confused:

did you bookmark them? did you ping?

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Colin Theriot

14 years ago

I'm curious now to set this up to do the drip feed via post by email instead of all bulk-loaded at once. Or maybe a combination.

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Kenwrites

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Colin Theriot

I'm curious now to set this up to do the drip feed via post by email instead of all bulk-loaded at once. Or maybe a combination.

Again for what it's worth, Steven's isn't a drip feed thing. It's just a blogger blog a day. But with so many of these different methods coming up within a very short time period, maybe it sent something off in Google?

The sad thing is when they wiped me out, they took down all my blogs I set up with Steven's method, the four or five I had using Zeus' plan, but I still have 18 Zombies rambling around....go figure.

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Steven Wagenheim

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Kenwrites

Again for what it's worth, Steven's isn't a drip feed thing. It's just a blogger blog a day. But with so many of these different methods coming up within a very short time period, maybe it sent something off in Google?

The sad thing is when they wiped me out, they took down all my blogs I set up with Steven's method, the four or five I had using Zeus' plan, but I still have 18 Zombies rambling around....go figure.

Ken, just out of curiosity, when did you start having problems with my blogs
being deleted?

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Kenwrites

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

Ken, just out of curiosity, when did you start having problems with my blogs
being deleted?

Just this past weekend. I figure it like this: Let Google do their thing for a month or so and slowly start working the blogger blogs back in to my routine again. If Google keeps taking them down, then I'll leave 'em lie. It was (is) a neat way to add some extra $ with the blogger blogs.

I am not the brightest bulb in the room here, but you figure how many people were using these freebie methods in a very short amount of time and I can imagine warning lights and sirens went off. lol

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CDarklock

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Kenwrites

I am not the brightest bulb in the room here, but you figure how many people were using these freebie methods in a very short amount of time and I can imagine warning lights and sirens went off. lol

That's kind of what I've been thinking. I mean, on the average, we're SELLING two copies of Zombie Blogging every day... usually one here and one elsewhere... and that doesn't even begin to count the number of people reading the threads, or just using a comparable method.

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iwebtopia

14 years ago

I bought ZB a few days ago and very excited about implementing this method during my free time when I'm off from work. Now I'm bummed with everything I'm reading. The ZB method is perfect for me because it's simple and doesn't cost anything (I'm extremely broke), so now what happens? I have 3 existing Gmail accounts, so should I just try to add as many blogger blogs with those accounts or try to set up new Gmail accounts? I'm confused. I really want to get my hordes up and running so I can earn passive income to supplement my income.

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Kenwrites

14 years ago

Originally Posted by iwebtopia

I have 3 existing Gmail accounts, so should I just try to add as many blogger blogs with those accounts or try to set up new Gmail accounts? I'm confused. I really want to get my hordes up and running so I can earn passive income to supplement my income.

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Just a thought, and some others please chime in but, you may want to keep it to 4 blogger blogs per gmail account. Add more gmail accounts as necessary.

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thebitbotdotcom

14 years ago

I started two blogs in blogger using the drip method. I drop one post per week in each and have them set to run for about six months to a year before they are complete. All of the posts have been preloaded with release dates one week apart. I haven't had any trouble and I have not had to verify anything by phone. That surprised me also. Additionally, I do not use a Gmail account. They just look too spammy.

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Kenwrites

14 years ago

Let me just stick my head in one more time.......

For anybody using either of these products, just sit on them for about 30 days. Then slowly start building again. The products work fine, just Google having a mini-heart attack.

If you are stressed for income, adapt the products some. Instead of using PLR articles, create some original content. Add some Amazon stuff or some other affiliate product instead of relying on just Adsense. Same concept, different approach. Get creative.

Ok, leaving the room before stuff is thrown at my head..... lol

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Colin Palfrey

14 years ago

I think I see what the problem is.

I have lots and lots of Blogger blogs under one Google account, and I get no trouble.
You are opening multiple accounts and thinking Google doesn't know. They know and don't trust you because nobody honest opens multiple accounts (in their opinion). Not saying this is necessarily what is happening, but it sure sounds like it to me.

I did Steven's blogging system for a while, so I have a huge number of Blogger blogs and without having any difficulty setting them up. While I am doing something different now I still make Blogger blogs from that same Gmail account without problems.

Why even try and use different accounts for different blogs? Whatever purpose it was for originally seems to be backfiring. I would recommend you stop trying to game the system, as they let you have as many blogs as you want anyway.

Caliban, do you use one account or multiple accounts, because that could be the difference.

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charlesburke

14 years ago

In all the replies so far, nobody has mentioned setting up blogs in subdomains at your own website.

Is that not doable? Or is there a downside to this that I'm not seeing?

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14 years ago

Originally Posted by charlesburke

In all the replies so far, nobody has mentioned setting up blogs in subdomains at your own website.

Is that not doable? Or is there a downside to this that I'm not seeing?

As long as you post unique content on all of the subdomains, it should be fine.

Google webmaster guidelines advises against creating a bunch of subdomains, and then posting a lot of duplicate content.

Webmaster guidelines - Webmaster Tools Help

Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.

Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.

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JackPowers

14 years ago

Google snoops like no other. For example, I am pretty sure that if you try to open a Gmail account using some software, that will get you in their black book. It's best to do things like this logged out of all Google accounts and using a proxy, perhaps also don't visit sites with your adsense on etc.

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