BumpZee – A MyBlogLog Alternative

I’m a big fan of MyBlogLog. It allows me to see who has been reading the blog and allows me to interact with them in a lot of ways. I can contact them through MyBlogLog, i can see what communties they like and i can see what other bloggers like their blog. MyBlogLog isn’t the only site out there which allows you to interact and promote your blog in this way. The alternative service which a lot of bloggers are using is called BumpZee.

BumpZee

BumpZee is definately the biggest threat to MyBlogLog’s reign. It has a lot of similarities to MyBlogLog but there are a few differences. MyBlogLog calls your blog a community so when you are browsing communties you are esssentially just browsing different blogs. With BumpZee it’s a little different. You can browse through blogs but they are actually called blogs and not communities.

Just to confuse you more, Bumpzee has communities as well. However, they are communities in the traditional sense ie. you can create your own community and you can join other communties. For example, if you run a Eminem blog you could start an Eminem commnunity and other eminem blogs and fans of Enimem would probably join up. This is one main feature MyBlogLog doesn’t have as yet.

Similar to MyBlogLog, you can leave messages on your favourite communities. They call them zees and you can browse through zee’s from all of Bumpzee or just from a certain community.

The Widgets

There are two widgets that you can add to your blog. You can use javascript though they encourage wordpress users to use a plugin (note : if you use the plugin, just upload bumpzee.php to your plugin directory as uploading bumpzee/bumpzee.php doesn’t work – eg dont upload the folder unless you are happy to edit the file to make it work).

The first widget is a ‘latest readers’ block that shows the latest bumpzee users to drop by your blog. It works the same way as MyBlogLog except you can also show the top posts in the bumpzee community too if you wish.

The second is a ‘Bump It’ button. This works the exact same way as digg. You can add the bump it button to your posts in the hope that bumpzee readers will ‘bump’ your post. All you need to do is include the bump code in your post template (inside the loop in wordpress).

Whats better – MyBlogLog or BumpZee

For the forseeable future i am going to use both ‘Recent Readers’ widgets on BloggingTips. I don’t think that i will add a ‘Bump It’ button to my posts though im sure that a lot of bloggers will have success with it.

As for which offers the blogger the best service – I’m still not sure. I really think that just now there isn’t a huge gulf between them. I recognise that BumpZee offers the ‘Bump It’ digg like button and the communities option as well however there is still more bloggers using MyBlogLog so it’s hard to say which will work best for you and your blog.

What do you think – MyBlogLog or BumpZee?

Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on May 3rd, 2007 and filed under Promote your blog
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