Hey Everyone...I created a ZZ Tuel example site here:
http://animals.reallyfreehosting.com/
It's hosted on of the free hosts some of us researched...
Setting up ZZ was very easy...However, I put in a lot of work beforehand.
Before I started I already had a HUGE blackhole script.
I also bought PLR to, and converted 50 entire Dog articles to RSS to use in my automated "dogs" newsletter from www.lizardz.com .
With this in mind, here's what I did:
I created a basic html template that uses three graphics:
Header
border background image
spacer.gif - used to control the left margin
I pasted the template into ZZ and use the following 4 elements on every page (but the homepage):
1 RSS RANDOM=1 => 50 Dog articles converted to RSS. Each time ZZ goes to work it will select one of my 50 articles.
2 RSS Scrubed Feed RANDOM=2 => This pheed is actually about all types of animals, not just dogs. I want to get some LSI and other keywords added to the mix. I used Scrubz to clean up a bunch of rss items and used the best. ZZ will randomly add 2 of these to each page.
3 RSS BLACKHOLE=3 - I created a super-duper dynamic RSS pheed using content from tons of PLR that I bought.
Right now, these all link to Lizardz.com, but that will all change.
4 Internal navigation - The links at the bottom are to other pages ZZ creates. As ZZ adds pages, it adds links to the new pages to older pages.
The anchor text is created by using the spinner in ZZ. Load some keywords into each of the three boxes and let ZZ spn them. They don't always match the content of the page exactly, but it's very effective for SEO.
After setting the project up, I ran ZZ once and changed the file name of that page to index.html, making it the homepage.
After tweaking things, I then ran ZZ to create 2 more pages, so I have a three page site to start with.
Next, I set the timer to create a new page 3 times per month. I want to make sure it updates at least once a month and need to plan that Tuelz may not always be running, so I choose three.
I figure that I have 50 articles so I should be good for over a year or two, posting 1-2-3 times a month.
After the three pages were up, I created RSS items for each page and added them to my Blackhole pheed.
I created 3 items for the homepage and 2 for the other two pages.
I used chunks of the pages' content for the RSS decription and made a different title for each item, using similar but different keyword phrases. This give the homepage links with three different phrases used for anchor text.
I won't worry about adding any future pages to the RSS pheed. This is a tin site and I just want to get it some links.
As I create other resources, they will also be added to the Blackhole pheed.
This has two purposes:
1. Cross linking
2. Create content As I add snippets of articles to the Blackhole, then mix and match them all up, I can use them as content on other pages.
Next, I need to "social" this site a little.
I did do a lot of work to create the blackhole and convert the articles to RSS...
...However, I'm not done. I'll create another 5-6 ZZ sites on free hosts USING THE EXACT SAME RESOURCES.
All I have to do is swap out the template and enter different FTP info and I'm ready to go.
Remember, I'm using random on all three of my ZZ Tags. And, I've got enough content in my blackhole (thousands of items), plus high quality "scrubbed" RSS items, which can be spun into tons of combos.
Plus, I'm only updating a few times a month, which conserves resouces.
In this way, ZZ builds sites using the "drip" method...Adding a page here and a page there, slowly growing the site over time, growing just like a small site does.
As you add more sites, blogs, lenses, etc., keep adding them to your blackhole.
Right now, while my blackhole has tons of items, all the links point to www.lizardz.com (and this one new site). As I add more sites, the links will greatly diversify.
When I get enough variety I'll mix my own Blackhole with the Scrubz pheeds and no one will ever be able to tell the difference between a link to my network and a link elsewhere.
Check out a secondary page to see all 4 elements:
Article
Two Links to Scrubz news feed about animals
Three Links to www.lizardz.com using my blackhole
Auto site navigation by ZZ
http://animals.reallyfreehosting.com/dog-care-1-2008-01-11.html