March 5, 2008; 02:32 AM
Jackson, NJ, March 05, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Zergwatch is an Open
Community Social News & Bookmarking website designed specifically for video
game players, video game fansite webmasters, video game bloggers and the video
game industry to aggressively promote and syndicate gaming related media to an
industry focused and targeted platform.
The Zergwatch Open Community
engine provides anyone with a gaming blog, website, product or vocal opinion
with the tools necessary to distribute their content to the masses without
restriction. Once content or social links are submitted to Zergwatch, the
community then decides where the content goes by a basic system of peer reviews
and ratings. While the top rated content ends up on Page One, all content is
treated as important and sent to various syndicated channels.
Not just
another gaming news website.
While there are currently dozens of quality
news oriented gaming websites on the internet which deliver a steady stream of
gaming related news, reviews and opinions, the opinions they often give are
rarely that of the average gamer and rarely is the voice of the average gamer
heard.
The unfortunate casualty in corporate sponsored and "traditional"
news media is the gap where the reader is left to decipher what is an honest
opinion and what opinions are driven by the bottom line. Zergwatch bridges that
gap by giving ordinary gamers an actual voice beyond their current domain of
message boards and tucked away comments at the bottom of a story. At Zergwatch,
ordinary gamers and bloggers play the role of writer, editor and critic.
Everything posted to Zergwatch is open to uncensored community review as long as
basic community standards are met.
A successful alpha test.
On
February 1st, 2008, Zergwatch announced a one month open alpha stress test in
which 8,000 users participated, posting 942 articles and reading over 24,000
news articles in the 29 day period. "Our initial testing results were well
beyond our expectations. The Zergwatch website launched February 1st for limited
testing purposes and delivered over 24,000 gaming news articles to the gaming
community." explained Phil Stilton, CEO of Stilton Company, LLC. "Stilton
Company's aggressive approach to marketing our content is what has made our
other social news projects hugely successful, which in the end, will serve to
benefit entire gaming industry."
On March 10, 2008, Zergwatch will be
expanding its testing and beginning an official open public beta where gamers,
bloggers, web admins, editors and publishers can begin submitting their
content.
Who can use Zergwatch?
Gamers can use Zergwatch to get an
unfiltered and uncensored view of the gaming industry. They are not supported,
endorsed or backed in any way by corporate gaming entities which can tend to
influence content. Zergwatch is a neutral media source, free from the
commitments of industry advertisers, bottom lines and buzz
trending.
Bloggers can use Zergwatch to promote their blogs. Zergwatch
offers blog syndication and invite bloggers to share their blogs with the gaming
community. The top rated blogs are syndicated in their "Featured Blogs"
syndication. Marketing and posting links for your blog on Zergwatch will help
your visibility and increase your reader base. Syndicating your blog through RSS
on their website makes it even better.
Gaming website webmasters can use
Zergwatch to promote their content. Webmasters are invited to use social
bookmarking tools to promote their news, reviews and features in an industry
focused social bookmarking medium to compliment their general social bookmarking
and marketing strategies.
Software publishers use Zergwatch to promote
their press releases. Zergwatch press release distribution system feeds your
press release to dozens of gaming focused social websites, blogs and syndicated
rss feeds with no effort on your part.
Aspiring journalists use Zergwatch
to publish their work and enhance their portfolio. By publishing your work on
Zergwatch, you can add valuable industry experience to your
portfolio.
Passionate and opinionated gamers use Zergwatch to enlighten
the community. Branded and discarded as the "vocal minority" by nearly every
gaming establishment, they are welcomed with open arms at Zergwatch. Being a
gaming journalist is a dream shared by many. Unlike other gaming websites,
fictional gaming stories are allowed!
An overview of the Zergwatch 3
Layer Application
The top layer of Zergwatch is a Social Bookmarking
engine which allows users to post links to other gaming websites just like any
other Social Bookmark system, creating a virtual archive of gaming Press
Releases, Reviews, News and Video. Users can interact with the bookmarks by
writing reviews, rating and nominating the news for various awards and
recognitions. Any user can submit links and news to Zergwatch. There are no
entry exams, interviews or peer reviews to posting on our website.
In the
second layer of the Zergwatch application, users become the journalists. Users
can submit their creative masterpieces in our public gallery. Where most gaming
website editors control the flow of information on page one based on buzz,
advertising revenue, freebies and publisher diplomacy, At Zergwatch, the
community decides which features will be displayed on Page One with a series of
tools including ratings, reviews and popularity scores.
The final and
most important layer of the Zergwatch application is our built in Search Engine
Optimization. Their engine was built on a solid SEO foundation which precisely
keywords, targets and titles each and every article, then aggressively markets
each article across dozens of social media platforms. The Open Community SEO
Core has been the key to the success of Stilton Company's other social news
projects.
About Zergwatch
Zergwatch.com is owned and operated by
Stilton Company, LLC of New Jersey. Zergwatch utilizes Stilton Company's
proprietary suite SEO optimized and enhanced content management applications
used in many successful online ventures. The overall mission statement for
zergwatch.com is to Monitor, Catalog, Archive and promote the non-stop stream of
news, blogs, media, opinions and press releases generated by the gaming industry
on a daily basis.
About Stilton Company, LLC
They are an
independently owned Business Technology & Strategy consulting firm
specializing in Content Management Solutions, Search Engine Optimization, Portal
Management and Online Security and System Management. Stilton Company owns and
operates the GoKidsNetwork, a suite of family based Travel, Entertainment and
Tourism social networking websites.
Contact
Email
zergwatch@stiltonco.com
http://www.zergwatch.com
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