I’ve also been practicing my excerpts and I’m getting pretty good, I think. (I kid! I’m trying to make them a lot more interesting, so I’m kind of tooting my own horn there.)

Plus the community at BZ is tremendous. I’ve really met some nice and interesting bloggers. Folks like you, Costa, whom I would never have come across otherwise. I think that’s a HUGE positive for BZ.

First according to Alexa they have been live since August but there domain was registered 12 Dec 2004 this basically stands for the fact since they are an aged domain they do not get placed in Google Sandbox. So since August they have an Alexa 3 month avg Rank of 390,714 and at there peak they have never been under 100k.

Now lets look at Blogging Zoom Created on: 20-Oct-07 and we went live Nov 1. Today makes day 19 and yet we have a current Alexa 3 month avg of 55,161 and a week avg of 8,989 and right now we are sitting at over 65% organic traffic. Think about that for one moment in 19 days we already at 65% organic traffic.

There are many factors that determine the success of a submission at BZ and as we have stated before and what makes us different is not only do we intent to provide burst traffic but also long term residual traffic.

Now you mention that “The problem with BloggingZoom’s dismal performance in delivering hits is partly due to it’s increasing popularity.” Please do not judge a whole service based on your results. Remember that you are participant in your results. But let me show you why you are part blame for such results.

One of the things we explained multiple times is how to make proper submission. Part of that process is to write original! content and to make it keyword focus. In your case with the submission of this article you went the lazy easy way and copied and pasted part of your article in your submission. Well guess what not only did you hurt your own site but you hurt Blogging Zoom since we both are not being hit with Google’s duplicate content.

Now your mention of the submissions not having enough time on the front page to gain traffic. Once again you seem to not understand Google’s algorithms, the quicker we provide content to google even if your submission was only in the front page for seconds you might miss te sudden burst of traffic but the more content BZ has and the more keywords we have the more the older post will get authority and the more each ORIGINAL submission will now receive organic traffic.

To prove my point go to Google and use this two search strings.

site:blogospherenews.com
site:bloggingzoom.com

Third we might have both started with the same code base but I guarantee you our code base is nothing like theres. I have personally with the help of other devs heavily modified our code base. Trying to improve reliability, speed and also search engine friendliness.

I recommend you read my article on BZ where I discuss my views http://bu.bulicio.us/blogging/blogging-zoom-bringing-the-man-down/

Also if you want to have a small glimpse of where BZ is heading I recommend you go to Alexa and look up Digg.com for there first 9 months you will notice that we have already surpassed there traffic in 19 days.

Thank you for the review and the comparison but in my opinion there really is no comparison.