Bumpzee vs Mybloglog….Fight!

I’m the first to admit that whenever Mybloglog came on the scene I was quick to jump on & rave that it was the best thing since sliced bread. Fast forward a few months & things couldn’t be more different. Which is……very unexpected.

Bumpzee has come into the scene & could just possibly (for my niche) sweep me off my feet!

Firstly what went wrong for me with Mybloglog?

1. I started getting too much unsoliciated Spam.
2. Too many people were gaming the system.
3. The servers were are slow.
4. The widget was slowing down my blog.
5. The readers coming over from Mybloglog weren’t targeted enough.
6. There was no integration of blog content into Mybloglog.

That’s actually a lot of negative points. I guess the morale of this story is that you don’t realise what you hate about something until a better service comes along. For me Bumpzee is just that.

What do I like about Bumpzee?

1. The Digg like widget that I can add to each post. In fact I’ve even gotten rid of the Digg Widget now.
2. The fact that it’s actually a community dedicated to Affiliate Marketing! Who would ever have thought
3. Seperating the communities to make readship & participation more targeted which is an AWESOME idea.
4. If your blog is about affiliate marketing they will automatically include all of your posts into the voting.
5. It’s a great place to network & find blogs related to your niche. Without having to trawl through the spam & unrelated content.
6. You can install a sidebar widget that not only allows people to “bump” stories from your blog whilst on your blog but it’ll show who recently from Bumpzee has been visting the blog. I’ve decided not to install this feature for now due to the Link Popularity leak back to Bumpzee. Perhaps if I could make the links nofollow then I’d add it in.

Hrm, 6 negative points about Mybloglog. 6 Positive points about Bumpzee.

I’ve not quite figured out yet how the Ranking system works for “Bumping Stories” to number one. Nor do I have any proof of what sort of traffic you’ll get for hitting number one. But to give you an idea, for getting on the front page with a story I was getting around an extra 50 uniques to the Earners Blog. Not a huge amount, but I’d rather have targeted traffic that may sign up to my RSS Feed than untargeted traffic from Digg that’ll just crash my server & look pretty in the logs

So the fight between Bumpzee & Mybloglog is on! It’ll be interesting to see how Bumpzee evolves & what extra communities they’ll be bringing in over the coming months. It’d also be good to see some of the blog readers here get on there & get more good Affiliate Marketing content on there. It’d also be great to network with you guys, so drop a note on the Earners Blog section in Bumpzee & say hi. I’ll do the same for you.