Affiliate Marketing Community : Bumpzee

I meant to write about Bumpzee earlier but somehow I didn’t get to do it until now. If you haven’t already heard, Bumpzee is something like a MyBlogLog for the affiliate marketing community, in that it displays a social widget which displays recent readers of your blog while allowing you to interact with them.

Bumpzee differs from MyBlogLog in that you’ll also have the option of voting or bumping specific blog entries from other bloggers or discussing them on Bumpzee’s website.

As a niche blog aggregator, Bumpzee will also automatically pull entries from your blog and include them in the Bumpzee community website so other readers can visit your blog or comment on your article.

BUMPzee makes it easy to keep up with the latest news, and especially the content that happens in blog comments all over the place by allowing people to set their blogs to update BUMPzee with their latest comment dates.

BUMPzee also fosters relationships between like-minded bloggers and their readers while ensuring that the readers keep visiting the blogs and participating in the discussions.

What are the requirements for my blog to be accepted into Bumpzee?

According to their website, your blog must be partly about affiliate marketing and the content on your blog should be unique and not purely self-promotional or produced for the sole aim of increasing sales or conversions.

Bumpzee allows you to set up a recent readers widget ala MyBlogLog on your website. You can also include a ‘Bump This’ widget (similar to the Digg badge), which allows users to bump your blog entry to the top of the community.

You’ll also have the option of allowing comments for your blog entries to show up on Bumpzee. This will allow other bloggers to see that you have a discussion at your blog and participate in it.

Bumpzee Communities - Affiliate Marketing and SEO/SEM

I’ve signed up with Bumpzee a while back and I’m mainly using it to catch up on entries from various affiliate marketing blogs. The affiliate marketing community is pretty useful because all the recent posts from a large number of affiliate marketing blogs are all posted in one section.

The affiliate marketing community currently has 508 members and aggregated entries from 173 blogs. Bumpzee also has a Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing community for professionals and other bloggers in that specific field.

Maybe it’s just me, but Bumpzee seems a little too complicated in terms of navigation and features. There are many specific sections on their website and each one seems to share a similar function.

For example there’s a individual page for entries, another for discussions (which includes blog comments) and yet another for tags. The profile page is too cluttered for my liking as well, even though it’s functional and offers a lot of useful features.

If you dabble in some affiliate marketing or want to learn more about it, check out Bumpzee’s communities to read the blog entries and interact with other bloggers by commenting, asking questions or bumping their entries.

If you own a blog that’s partly related to affiliate marketing, submit it and you’ll get to share your blog entries with a community of like-minded affiliate and internet marketers.

You’ll probably learn a lot through the interaction so give a Bumpzee a run if you’re interested in affiliate marketing.