Editor's review
Zeus is an easy-to-use Intelligent, Internet Robot, which creates traffic to your web site. Generate thousands of link trades by finding web sites and automating 95% of the work in Link Marketing.
Pros: One of the basic needs of internet marketing, the equivalent of prospects in real life marketing, is to get traffic to the product/organization site. One of the things one does to do that is to have lot of incoming links to the site. Whatever traffic comes though these links are useful of course. Additionally, a lot of qualified incoming links promote rankings on search results and that drives traffic up further. The way to get links is to trade mutual linking and Zeus can find sites with which links could be trades and can take care of substantial part of the link marketing work.
Zeus is a web crawling robot and a link trading tool. Zeus uses keywords and keyword phrases to find, analyze and score web sites to match your themes or subjects of your web site. Once trained, it can bring you 100-150 matching, quality targeted sites a day, to trade links with. The robot can keep doing this day after day without any user effort. Subsequent steps required are qualifying this list, pruning them to create your target list. Batch e-mails for trading of links can be handled and a themed link directory can be created with these links harvested over days and post this directory to the site.
Visitors who end up looking at this directory is able to search the same for the topics of interest included in the director where the link partners come up on top. The search engine script can be easily integrated into the site code. Publishers also provide the necessary services for integration if required by users.
Cons: No problematic issues found.
Overall: Well designed application for an useful function, this deserves a 4 star rating.
After working with Zeus extensively I have concluded it is a clunky, unreliable piece of software. It never worked right on my Vista computer-Zeus would lock up forcing me to close the program and re-run it. Other times my computer itself locked up requiring a reboot. One day it just stopped loading completely which led me to contact Cyber-Robotics Tech Support. This was a waste of my time as Zeus tech support is useless. They were unable to help me to get Zeus to run again on my computer and basically told me I was out of luck without offering any real reason or explanation.
Problems with using Zeus to get reciprocal links:
Zeus is too complicated. There are too many steps, too many "hidden" screens, too many hoops to jump through and all of this makes it too time consuming.
Their frequent assertion "Automatically create traffic on your website" couldn`t be further from the truth. Anyone seeking serious results using Zeus must plan on spending 5-10 hours per week running Zeus on just one website. For webmasters with multiple websites, running Zeus can easily become a full time job.
Problems with Cyber-Robotics integrity:
With all the hype from the Cyber-Robotics people about how easy Zeus is to use, how automatic it is, etc. (which is all not true!) most people end up frustrated when they don`t get the results that Zeus promises. I get the impression that a lot of the problems with Zeus for link exchanging are by design to get users frustrated to the point they`re ready to quit. When that happens, Cyber-Robotics is always happy to sell you add-on services where they do all the work for you to the tune of $100-$500 a clip or charge you by the hour to tell you how to use their software.
All told it seems they lure you in with a low price for their software or a really low price if you buy one of their "one time only" specials that they run every other month and then nail you with all kinds of extra fees for services and support. That`s a great business model for Cyber-Robotics but a real disservice for the webmaster looking to make link marketing work for them.
Summary: Don`t waste your time or your money on Cyber-Robotics Zeus for link marketing. There are many other reciprocal link systems out there that are much less expensive, far easier to use and will get your excellent results with a minimum of effort.