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Some of you may have noticed the little “bump it” BUMPzee icons at the bottom of my posts and are wondering what the hell is BUMPzee? BUMPzee is a new social networking site (geared at bloggers) with a small but high quality userbase. It focuses on specific communities instead of just free-for-all networking; however, at the moment the site is only open to affiliate marketers. Unless I’m mistaken, they plan to add more groups as the site becomes more established.

BUMPzee is extremely new, but I’m already sold on it. I think it has all of the elements needed to seriously compete with MyBlogLog. It has a very user friendly profile management page, great blog integration, and good open discussion. BUMPzee also includes a recent visitor widget which is very similar to MyBlogLog’s. It has a “bump it” plugin that allows you to place a button in your blog posts (which are automatically indexed and displayed on BUMPzee) that let users “bump it” up - this works the same way as Digg. It also has a nifty little widget that displays the top posts within your community which is your range of contacts.

There’s still a lot of work to be done with the service, but it is going strong now and can easily become a serious competitor to MBL if it continues to grow and implement quality addons.

Anyone can sign up, but getting your blog’s RSS submitted to the site, which means it shows up on the entries and discussion pages, is a little trickier. Here’s what Scott, the owner of BUMPzee, had to say on blog RSS inclusion (currently for affiliate marketing only):

1. The blog must be at least partly about affiliate marketing. Usually the blogs are a mixture of Affiliate Marketing, PPC, SEO, blogging, etc. That’s great, but if it’s missing the affiliate part as a significant percentage, I usually pass. Or, if the non-affiliate stuff is too far off topic, I’ll usally pass on that too, sometimes reluctantly. Many times it’s a difficult decision.

2. The content should be unique, interesting, mostly non-self-promitional or sales-y, and built for readers and not for search engines. I like to see more than just the same old stuff regurgitated. Affiliate marketing news is fairly hard to come by and many people do end up writing about the same stuff. But I like to see unique perspective added. Plus, if you do this, you’ll have a more interesting blog.

3. The more interesting and unique the content is (as long as it’s online marketing related), the more I’ll relax the affiliate-specific requirement, though never completely.

If you decide to in join BUMPzee, be sure to check out NBB’s profile page.

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