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Get your prospects to call you! Using the BloggingZoom Tool

Posted on November 15, 2007
Filed Under Local Internet, Local Online Blogging, Real Estate Online |

The BloggingZoom Tool creators claim they can do two main things. They can expose your blog article to the search engines, and they will promote your blog article. Great! I have an article that needs to be exposed and promoted.

What better test for this free service, then a blog that was just started. The search engines don’t know it exists. The world doesn’t even know it exists yet. Using the BloggingZoom Tool, I say I can get my blog recognized on search engines faster than what would normally take place on my website. In order to know if the BloggingZoom tool works we have to know what would normally happen. Then we will have something to compare the results to.

What have I done so far? Yesterday I published a real estate article on my blog. Next, I wrote a reference real estate article on my web site pointing to the new article. Then I submitted the article to BloggingZoom. I would estimate the article reference on my web site would take about 8 to 16 days to get indexed. The article itself I’m not sure about since it is a new blog. I would think about the same time. I’m sure the BloggingZoom tool can do better than that. I know, because I’ve already used the tool. What’s different this time is I wrote an article that is not very popular, or very interesting. Not much interest unless you know it’s being used to test some things. I’m not looking for traffic; I’m looking to get my blog recognized.

The real estate article:
I am always trying to let the small business owner know the benefits of a blog. The article I wrote is asking the owner of a small business comment on my article. The only way they would know that someone wrote an article about them is by seeing the article listed in an index, or someone seeing the article and referring them to the article.

I’ll keep score. The BloggingZoom Tool versus my web site reference article. I want to know when each would get indexed, and when and if the owner will comment on my blog.

Traffic – Twelve days later - 33 looks at article.

Search Engine Results –

Three days later - Article is indexed in Google from BloggingZoom. Is this proof enough? The Localref reference article is NOT indexed yet. At this point if the real estate company has an alert set, they will be notified today. If they search Google everyday, they will only see the listing if they go to the 50th listing! If they check their site stats they will see the link from BloggingZoom.

Four days later - Localref reference article is indexed. I estimated eight days as a minimum. Another excellent example of the benefits of BloggingZoom.

Five days later - This morning when we search the real estate company, there are four references. The highest ranked result is the localref reference article, with the blog article right under it. This is the ninth listing. The other two search engine results show up about 20th. These are the two bloggingzoom references. Is this great or what, I actually have four chances to get the attention of the business owner.

Twelve days later - Web sites that are submitting to the bloggingzoom rss feed, are starting to show up on search results.

Twenty-one days later - Looks like everything is listed in google search results. Of interest is when I search the realtor, the bloggingzoom actual article is now what shows up above all else. They show up in 5th place. The localref reference article is in 15th place. Everyone should be aware of this. My goal was to get attention to my article. By doing that bloggingzoom is ahead of me in the search results. I say so what, I wanted them to come to me. Good, let them go to blogging zoom first, then they will come to me. I guess until I can get listed in the search results before bloggingzoom, this is the way for me to go.

Response to the article by the owners – I am proud to announce that the owner Judi answered the article today, January 21, 2008. It took about 70 days. I did my job, and sadly the owners didn’t do their job. It was interesting that the owner asked how to set alerts. I don’t think this is much different than a lot of web site owners. They don’t pay attention to what is going on in the internet world.

ADDED BONUS! - Another Real Estate person did respond, and they discussed the benefits of the internet! I offered them help to promote anything they are working on. Interesting that this person also joined BloggingZoom. I added them as a friend.

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