Post Zoom- Good Traffic for Minimal Work

In mid-October, 2010, I signed up with Post Zoom. This is a blog link hub/community of sorts. You can enter blog posts into their categories (2 per day per blog allowed) and these will be displayed on their site, in the category of your choice. The posts also are shown on member sites which have the Post Zoom widget installed, if there is an image associated with the post.

How has this worked out for me? Very well! For My Quality Day, since October 12, I've received 1697 visits through Post Zoom links. That works out to about 12 hits a day. On this blog, I've received 144 visits through Post Zoom links. That's just over one a day, but I don't post as often on this blog, and the topics are of less general interest. My other blogs fall somewhere between these two numbers.

PostZoom Pros:
• Free traffic for minimal effort- I have to add the posts to their system manually, but then I can choose the category and customized the tags.
• Niche tags- If a tag is used on more than a total of eight posts that tag is added to their tag list. With custom tags you can quickly create a niche entry in their list.
• No clicking to do- add your entry and leave- there is no requirement to click other sites to maintain your status
• Owners are open to adding top categories if you can convince them that something important is missing
• You can choose the categories of posts that will show in the widget you place on your blog

PostZoom Cons:
• You do have to enter your posts manually
• There is no outgo of cash, but there is no opportunity for income either
• Site is a bit awkward to negotiate
• It's not listed how many blogs/posts are in the system. I'd like to see counters of some kind to gauge the growth of the site.

If this sounds good to you, check it out. This is not an affiliate link of any kind. I get no benefit if you sign up, other than that there would be more participation in the system.

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Post Zoom - Ad Exchange Option

Post Zoom is a new blog link exchange that seems promising. Basically, you put a widget on your blog, add your posts to their database, and for every click that arrives on their site from your blog your blog will be shown in two other widgets. In addition, people may be surfing directly from the Post Zoom home page.

I've decided to give this a try with a couple of my blogs. The widget is small. You can choose 1x1 up to 1x5 in either orientation. The size of each block of the widget appears to be about 100x150. You can serve your ad with an image or not, and the image can be from your blog or from a separate URL, making this quite versatile.

I placed the widget on My Quality Day about a week ago, and have received 5 visits through Post Zoom, as recorded by Google Analytics. The Post Zoom stats says that 2 clicks to them have come through my blog, and 9 views of my blog have been posted through the widget in that time. In my opinion, this isn't too bad for a really new site.

The owner (well, the person who answered the contact form), Eric Castelli, has been very responsive to comments, always a good sign! He quickly agreed to add an Outdoors category, which fits my other blog well. They are open to adding other categories as the need arises.

The site is organized fairly well, but you have to get used to it. When you go to the home page you will see the posts currently being served. These are ranked both by newness of posting and highest popularity. If you want to register or log in, you must read some very small print in the right column.

You can see a 1x1 widget in my left column, just under the CMF ads.

Benefits: It's pretty early to tell, but if it becomes a popular place for surfers to check in for content, it could be quite useful.

There's not a huge time investment- no sites to click, etc.

You can place each of your blog posts in any category, individually. This is nice for eclectic bloggers, such as I am. If I post about flowers one day that can go in Outdoors. If I talk about something I baked that can go in Food & Drink, independently.

You can limit the categories from which the widget on your site will load, to tailor it to the content of your blog.

Drawbacks: You must load your posts on the site yourself. This means that you have to remember to do so, and take the extra couple of minutes required.

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