After moving all affiliate marketing content to a new domain, I am at the cross-road which on from my thee community to promote on this blog. I am talking about MBL, BlogCatalog and BumpZee.
I never been a huge fan of MyBlogLog plus I am the least active there. I am a fan of BlogCatalog but I have issues with their pink links. That leaves BumpZee. I really think many in the blogosphere underestimated this community although there are currently over 14000 members.
However there a few things that I am a little worried about. First take a look what Alexa has to say:
I find it strange that while the membership on BumpZee is increasing but Alexa reports decrease in traffic. It is true that BumpZee has always encouraged the discussions on blogs, and maybe that “policy” is coming to bite this community back.
Anyway, I am not here to predict anything. As long as BumpZee is out there I am going to support the community. However I would like to see following improvements:
- On several occasions when there BumpZee was having issues with their servers, I had to turn my widget off otherwise it would take forever for my pages to load. I saw some improvements here but still things can be pushed a little further.
- Currently none of my blogs are indexed by BumpZee. It seems that every time there was an issue with the servers my blogs would stop to be indexed by BumpZee.
- This ties into the point above. If your post is not indexed by BumpZee and can’t wait another 15 before the community finds out about your article, you can submit it manually. However this process truly sucks, because manually submitted entries automatically go to “BumpZee Community” instead of the community that generally indexes your entries.
Now that another busy time in affiliate marketing is over (Valentine’s Day) and we still have some time before Easter, I hope Scott finds some time to work on improvements. Unless of course my blog(s) are not good enough to be at BumpZee? 😉
I suspect Bumpzee is used less and less by general users and more and more by marketers – which explains why traffic is dropping while membership is rising.
Maybe you can try out entrecard.com.
I suspect Bumpzee is used less and less by general users and more and more by marketers – which explains why traffic is dropping while membership is rising.
Maybe you can try out entrecard.com.
@Death Mitten
BumpZee started out as list of affiliate marketing blogs. 😉 I had a pleasure to be the first member (expect Scott himself) to register at BumpZee. I think the did not expect to grow as much as they did. They definitely had some issues with their severs.
@Death Mitten
BumpZee started out as list of affiliate marketing blogs. 😉 I had a pleasure to be the first member (expect Scott himself) to register at BumpZee. I think the did not expect to grow as much as they did. They definitely had some issues with their severs.