I think Andy Beard rocks.
He clued me in to the do-follow movement, I subscribe to his feed and generally follow his suggestions. I consider him a go-to guy when it comes to blogging and niche marketing. So when he started talking about Bumpzee, I was all ears.
I just do not get it, though. I signed up last night, and after poking around, it seems they want me to put yet another widget in my sidebar and then I will get stats (just what I need, more stats). I can put another widget in my post itself so my readers can “bump it”, whatever that means.
Do any of you readers subscribe to this service? If so, could you answer me some questions?
- What advantages does it have over MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog?
- What does it mean to “bump” a post?
- Do you participate in any “groups”?
- Where is the benefit?
Sorry to be dense, but the website is confusing as heck. Any help would be appreciated.
Bumpzee is a little confusing, because there are now 10s if not hundreds of small communities.
For every community you join, you also have to add your blogs.
The sidebar widget displays the hot posts within the communities that that blog is a member, thus the content is in theory always related to your blog.
In turn, if people have bumped one of your posts, it doesn’t take many bumps currently for your content to appear on lots of blogs displaying the widget.
Bumpzee picks up your feed, and it is shown within each community that you are a member, and there is also a discussion thread available for each post, that can be accessed from each community you are a member.
In each community the latest and hottest posts in that community are shown. Votes count across communities, and you are also allowed to bump your own posts.
Bumpzee when it picks up your feed also parses any tags and categories you use, and has additional pages and RSS feeds for each tag it finds, across the whole network.
Important things to think about is that the community list is already a PR6, and that the top communities are probably PR5 and sharing lots of link love in in multiple ways. It also helps you get indexed faster.
The most active users in discussions on bumpzee also gain links to their blogs, so again more link love.
The stats are useful, because not only can you see the posts that have the most bumps, but they also show the posts across a community that are gaining the most traffic.
You might be surprised, but with such a varied community such as my Dofollow community, my blog rarely gets the most traffic, though I might get a lot of bumps because I display the button on every post, and lots of my readers are already part of Bumpzee.
If you promote Bumpzee, you have more of your readers using it and voting for your content, thus you gain more traffic from Bumpzee and other people’s widgets.
@Andy-
I appreciate the heads up. It makes a lot more sense now, I just was NOT getting that from the Bumpzee site. I guess it is worth me spending some time on this.
Thank you so very much for stopping by!
I’m really glad you asked those questions, because Andy’s answers made more sense than anything I worked out on my own – and I’ve been a Bumpzee member for about 3 weeks now. Part of my problem is that I can’t get the widget to work, and I wasn’t sure whether it was worth contacting them for support.
It sounds like there’s a lot more going on with Bumpzee than I thought so I’ll make more of an effort. Even without the widget I’ve been getting a little traffic from the site.
this is the first time i am hearing about this widget. Well, I guess the MyBlogLog widget is quite popular, isn’t it.