A-List - Boo, Z-List - Yay!
This was passed on to me from a newly acquired friend in the blog world. I started checking the sites listed and it works!
What’s the idea? It started with Mack Collier of The Viral Garden, who came up with the idea of giving a links boost to us smaller bloggers, the ‘Z List’. As you may know, a blog’s success in terms of visibility really depends on links: more links = higher Technorati & Google Pagerank results = more people finding you.
Instructions
The premise is simple: Write a post, and copy and paste my list from below into it. Make sure the links are active and correct. If your blog is on that list, remove it because your post isn’t about self-promotion. Don’t worry, because if your name is on mine, it’s on others and will spread. Add your favorite deserving blogs to the top of the list (not compulsory). Publish the post. People will notice the incoming links, and hopefully write their own z-list posts. The result will be that we all get more links pointing to our blogs, and more readers — it’s got to be good!
Key Points
- Create a new post on your blog.
- Copy and Paste the entire list of blog links below
- Add any blogs that you want to include near the top of the list. (Optional)
- Include the blog where you first got the list from, on the list in your post.
- Do not include your own blog links on the list in your post.
- Make sure that all links are copied intact (use the source, Luke).
- Publish the Post.
The List
My adds:
Ken Savage
confessions of a freeware junkie
Run PC Run
ScriptingLife
Off-Hook
Originals:
If you found this post useful, why don't you buy me a cup of coffee to show your gratitude?eJabs
DragonLady’s World
Rob’s Blog
Another Opinion Among Many
CAUTION: girl underway
Webgrrrl
Dr. Mercola
Daily Cup of Tech
Blog-Op
Carols Vault
Blog About Your Blog
Monetize Your Blog
Cosmin PTR
Make Money On The Net
Make$ Money$
Successful Online Money Making
Turn One Pound Into One Million$
Work at Home Blog
Blogging For Beginners
How to earn money online?
Dosh Dosh
Money Money Money
Money Making Quest
Connected Internet
Mike’s Money Making Mission
Time to Budget
Can I Make Big Money Online
Blogtrepreneur
Flee the Cube
Blogging Secret
Blogging to Fame
Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under
Quest to make money on the internet
Kumiko’s Cash Quest
Calico Monkey
Internet Bazaar
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Pow! Right Between The Eyes!
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
Two Hat Marketing
darrenbarefoot.com
The Emerging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Drew’s Marketing Minute
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
NewsPaperGrl
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Bullshitobserver
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly
26 Responses to “A-List - Boo, Z-List - Yay!”
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Happy Hotelier Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amTime for an update on the T-List and the L-List: First some history: On March 2, 2007 the T-List was launched by Quebec (CAN) based Mathieu Ouellet of Radaron who modeled it after the Z List, originally launched by Mack Collier of Viral garden. Mathieu now states in a response to Leeds (UK) based Darren Cronian’s provocative and funny The Death of The T-List: I’ve created the T-List for fun and also to see the impact it could have in
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Online Degrees Today.com 2.0 Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amET-List stands for Education/Teacher list. This concept have been used in the past with the Z-List. This time, itâs up to education and teacher bloggers to be promoted and even discovered. ; )Â Â
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Student Blogs :: The Student Blog Aggregator Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amit helps everyone on the list get a few more links for their site and thereby improve the visibility and hence traffic of their blog. The idea is a simple one and was pinched from the idea of the T-List which lists travel blogs itself copied from the Z List, originally launched by Mack Collier of Viral garden. I shamelessly pinched the original of this from Ministry of Propaganda. What you do is: Write a post titled “The Expat List” Copy the links below into it
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Foreign Perspectives | News and editorial on life in the south of France, a series on how to move here and some random musings too. As seen on TV. Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amit helps everyone on the list get a few more links for their site and thereby improve the visibility and hence traffic of their blog. The idea is a simple one and was pinched from the idea of the T-List which lists travel blogs itself copied from the Z List, originally launched by Mack Collier of Viral garden. I shamelessly pinched the original of this from Ministry of Propaganda. Coming soon are the rest of the world… there are wayyyyy too many expat bloggers to put in one list!
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Tourism Marketing Blog Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amZ-List. This time, it’s up to travel and tourism bloggers to be discovered. ; ) Instructions - Write a post. - Copy/paste the link list from the post you’ve discovered the T-List into it. - Make sure the links are active and correct.
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Jen's Site - Jen's Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amfor everyone More Travel Blogs… Based on the ‘Z list‘, http://www.radaron.com/” href=”http://www.radaron.com/”>Mathieu at Radar has started a ‘T list’ equivalent for travel and tourism blogs. The rationale is that bloggers taking part receive a link boost through
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Chronicles of On The Road Travel Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amZ list
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NetKulture Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amZ-list
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Marketing Hotelero, Marketing en entornos Web 2.0 y Turismo 2.0 Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amla lista de los principales Blogs de Turismo. El Blog de Albert Barra ha sido incluido en la lista por Les Explorers. Un honor que agradezco enormemente. El término de T-List proviene de Lista de Turismo,al igual que en el pasado se utilizó con la Z-List. Esta vez para promocionar los blogs del sector turístico. Las instrucciones que nos han sido dadas a quienes escribimos blogs son: - Escribir un artículo. - Copiar y pegar la lista desde donde nos han descubierto.
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Le web a meilleur goût Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amZ-List
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Unconditional Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 ammapper le concept de Z-list sur la blogosphère française était une idée à côté de laquelle passer eut été pécher, je publie ci-desssous ma F-List. Pour être plus clair, description du contexte : Xavier a découvert le concept de “Z-List” dont l’objectif est d’assurer la promotion des « petits» blogs américains. Il a donc créé la F-List pour les blogs hexagonaux, F pour …. ?? je vous le donne en mille… en cent.. en deux.. non je vous le donne pas.
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Diario del Viajero Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am[IMG]El mismo concepto que se aplicó en su momento con la Z-list le toca ahora el turno a la T-list, una especie de juego encadenado donde dar a conocer un listado de los blogs de viajes y turismo que consideras interesantes. La iniciativa fue comenzada por Radar
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Viajateca Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am[IMG]El mismo concepto que se aplicĂł en su momento con la Z-list le toca ahora el turno a la T-list, una especie de juego encadenado donde dar a conocer un listado de los blogs de viajes y turismo que consideras interesantes. La iniciativa fue comenzada por Radar
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http://viajes.mundoplaneta.es Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amT-List de blogs de turismo [IMG]El mismo concepto que se aplicó en su momento con la Z-list le toca ahora el turno a la T-list, una especie de juego encadenado donde dar a conocer un listado de los blogs de viajes y turismo que consideras interesantes. La iniciativa fue comenzada por Radar
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Le blog de Xavier … Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 amJ’ai découvert récemment le concept de la “Z-List” donc l’objectif est d’assurer la promotion des petits blogs américains. La “Z-List” permet également de découvrir de nouveaux blogs. Ce concept n’existe pas (à priori) en France. J’
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TripCart :: The Travel Blog Says:
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am[IMG Bathroom sign, Genie’s Cafe, Portland, Oregon by marymactavish at flickr] T-List stands for Tourism/Travel list. This concept have been used in the past with the Z-List. This time, it’s up to travel and tourism bloggers to be discovered. ; ) Instructions - Write a post. - Copy/paste the link list from the post you’ve discovered the T-List into it. - Make sure the links are active and correct.
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Maki Says:
February 8th, 2007 at 9:15 pmThanks for spreading the Z List!
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runpcrun Says:
February 9th, 2007 at 6:33 amDisclaimer: I am not an SEO expert.
After saying “Thank you for the addition Tim” I have to say it’s probably in the reciprocal linking genre as far as Google is concerned.
Back in the early days of blogs, blogs started rising massively up PageRank and search results because of this, a lot of early bloggers linked in large numbers to each other. After a while Google tweaked their algorithm and the blogs about puppies dropped back to where they should be.
Which means that it will either be discounted by their current algorithm or if it is successful then they’ll tweak the algorithm to make to stop working.
It’s a trick, not much better than a link farm, and it will most likely appear to Google as an artificial network because it’s so heavily meshed.It’s probably not a good idea in the long run…
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will Says:
February 9th, 2007 at 6:44 amI’d be careful with this. Anything people do to try and manipulate the system can raise the eyebrows of Google, and before you know it you could be sandboxed and taken out of their search results altogether. If Google sees this interwoven web of sites that have nothing in common with each other (keyword-wise, anyway), it might end up doing more harm than good.
Additionally, you never know who you are going to be associating yourself with in a reciprocal link exchange such as this. Unless you visit all the sites on this list, it’s a risk. Even then, of one of the sites next to yours gets blacklisted by Google, you might see some negative results for yourself since you were associated with it.
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Tim Fehlman Says:
February 9th, 2007 at 6:54 amrunpcrun and will,
In the end, you are probably right. There will only be a small effect. The only thing that I think that could make this effective is the fact that it is the Z-List and such a small thing (relative to the big boys) that it may fly under the radar or be seen as not worth the effort to tackle.
Tim
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Gavin Heaton Says:
February 9th, 2007 at 7:25 amReally … I wouldn’t worry about it. I arrived here thanks to the Z-list and will take a look around. I am sure you will get many new visitors, but they will only return if the content works for them. Me …? I am still looking around.
But as to blog success … depends what you want and how you prioritise it. Traffic is nice, but comments make you feel loved.
Thanks for joining in the Z-list.
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Matthew Jabs Says:
February 9th, 2007 at 10:24 amWhile I can definitely understand the line-of-thinking behind the previous comments…I’m going to have to disagree with the fact that this list is harmful.
What will this network of people do that Digg, Fark, etc. don’t already do. The purpose is to get smaller blogs more traffic. There is nothing fishy about that. Google would only, seemingly, have a problem with it if it was perpetrating questionable Adsense practices.
The thought process behind The Z List being harmful is a little Big Brotherish to me.
Anyway…penny for your thoughts…
Matthew Jabs
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Trota Says:
February 9th, 2007 at 10:47 amThank you for keeping the Z-List going!
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Becky Carroll Says:
February 9th, 2007 at 11:31 amThe Z-list has certainly taken on a different dimension now (most of the blogs were about marketing early on), but it is still a good way to introduce others to new blogs. It has expanded my exposure, both of my blog as well as to other worthy bloggers. Thanks for keeping it going.
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Melanie Says:
September 8th, 2007 at 6:42 pmHow do I get my blog up on your list? http://melbelshebel.blogspot.com
Just curious, thanks!
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