BumpZee. BUMP.

Written by: burt
Date: March 27, 2007
Filed under: Life of Burt
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Bumpzee is supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, if you are wanting your peers to visit your blog(s). It seems to be a mashup of digg, mybloglog and more - it looks pretty interesting, though I am not sure about the true value of joining such a community. I don't really read many other "marketing" blogs as I have no interest in most of them, and I don't subscribe to the idea of copying other peoples posts as I see being done across many blogs. When one person posts about X, you get loads more post about X. It's pointless.

With that said, I thought it would be interesting to at least give BumpZee a go, even if only for month to see if traffic increased, and whether the traffic was (is) any good.

So, I signed up - which was not painless. For some reason the sign up form wouldn't work in Firefox, so I had to resort to Internet Explorer. It seems like I signed up a day or two before some major changes were made - as it turns out, I had only signed up for a "profile" - I now had to submit this blog to a community.

The nearest community at that time was "Affiliate Marketing", so that was the one I submitted to. As of now, which must be at least 2 weeks later, my blog is still "Pending Review" :(

I learned that Jim Kukral has started up a new BZ community, which is much closer to what this blog is about; "How To Be Successful Online". So I have today submitted the blog to that community. Will see how it goes, and if accepted, will report back on the traffic.

Comments

  1. Comment by James — March 27, 2007 @ 2:39 pm

    Sounds like a lot of hassle. Not a good way to attract a community.

  2. Comment by Jim Kukral — March 27, 2007 @ 3:45 pm

    It's in beta, so you'll have to excuse the bumps. I just approved your blog, thanks for joining. Try putting the widgets in?

  3. Comment by burt — March 27, 2007 @ 5:48 pm

    Many thanks Jim. That was actually pretty painless, the key was to actually get the blog approved!

  4. Comment by Jim Kukral — March 27, 2007 @ 7:51 pm

    Well, remember, it's still all beta. I'm in charge of one of the first communities. I try to approve blogs at least once a day.

  5. Comment by Scott Jangro — March 27, 2007 @ 8:54 pm

    Burt, thanks for checking it out, and giving it a second shot after the bad experience a few weeks ago.

    We've checked out the signup process in Firefox and found no problems, but we've gone through a few redesigns since then. The approval process was in flux back then as well. All in all, bad timing I guess.

  6. Comment by gary — March 28, 2007 @ 4:57 pm

    All seems to be OK now, thanks guys.

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