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December 12, 2007

Zoey Zane - Jiri Tlusty case study

Written by Linky Love under Evaluation, Fresh Visitors, LifeStyle, Linky Love, WEDNESDAY

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Zoey Zane Website

One way to attract more visitors is to offer what they can’t find on the Internet. You do need to know what people are looking for and what they can’t find in the first place! It is called a niche, yet that’s really a big word for a small thing, meaning there are different kind of niches.

Zoey Zane video

Using Google Trends Lab you can easily find out what people are looking for at this very moment. During the Zoey Zane tragedy, people were looking for the Zoey Zane website which was down, so it was quite easy to fill up that niche.

Speed is important, because lots of other people are using this tactics as well!

I immediately Googled for all I could find about Zoey Zane (yes, you need to know how to Google…), wrote a post about Zoey Zane and saw my visitors sky rocketing: every second a new visitor!

Downside of this method:

as with every method, you have to compete with the people that master this method
your blog needs to be visited a few times a day by the search engine robots
if you don’t master the method, you need to sit and wait until a real niche shows up, in this case somebody took down the Zoey Zane website, so the niche was born

You just do it to get more visitors…

I got lots of feedback that I was writing a post "just to get more visitors"… Ok, which of you that gave me that feedback writes for the purpose of nobody reading what they post???

And my post gave answers to what people where looking for, not at all fooling them with the Zoey Zane virus!

You could do it with really bad intentions…

Let me introduce you to the real bad guys who took this practice for bad intentions. First you need to know how Zoey Zane looks like.

zoey zane pics

Zoey Zane pics like this could be found on every blog posting about Zoey Zane

Now it doesn’t even matter who of the 3 above girls is Zoey Zane: Google Trends Lab told us that people were looking for Zoey Zane Videos so the following Zoey Zane video appeared:

zoey zane pictures

Zoey Zane pictures really? Any resemblance with the Zoey Zane pics above?

So in stead of Zoey Zane photos, Zhang Ziyi pictures were used. Most likely with the logic: gosh: the names also start with Z Z: Zoey Zane - Zhang Ziyi… If you ever saw a Zhang Ziyi gallery, you would have known there are no real Zhang Ziyi nude pictures online at all…

And mentioning that this was your best solution since the Zoey Zane website was down…

You must be blind if you don’t see the difference, but people did click on the Zhang Ziyi picture, just to get a message that they needed to upgrade their Flash Player.

Clicking this so called Zoey Zane video meant installing malicious malware or a trojan on your computer…

Summarized

Using Google Trends Lab is yet another way of getting more visitors to your website.

Advantage: instant famous post, incredible amount of Google visitors
Disadvantages:

you need to "monitor the Internet" , that’s why I have my toplist directory showing daily visitors not to miss any trend
your blog needs to be spidered "almost constantly"
you need to compete with others using Google Trends Lab "professionally"
you need to be able to gather the info fast and post it even faster
the topic needs to fit in your blog
the topic needs to fit your personality (do you really want to blog about naked pictures of death people in the Zoey Zane case???)
once the trend is over, your visitors are gone