Out of the Affiliate Blog List … BUMPZee! is Born

by Scott Jangro on 12 January 2007

If you’ve been following along for the past few weeks, I’ve been busily developing what started out as a list of affiliate marketing blogs.

My imagination ran away and my fingers kept pouring out PHP and AJAX code and the end result was something MUCH bigger than a simple blog list.

The list initially turned into a feed aggregator, then digg-like features were added. At that point, user accounts were required, and from there it turned into a community website. Something I’ve been looking to do for a very long time.

It outgrew it’s old place on a subdomain here on jangro.com, so I figured I’d better do something about that sooner rather than later.

I give you … BUMPZee.com.

What’s with that name? I decided to go broader than affiliate marketing in the name, though that’s all there is on the site right now. Personally, I belong to a few other communities and I can see the same sort of thing developing, but they wouldn’t mix with the affiliate stuff very well. So, with future growth in mind, I went with a silly web 2.0 type name.

So, affiliate marketers, this is your website. Create an account, spiff up your profile, keep up with industry news, and create your own. Pretty soon, I’m hoping this will be a place to connect with other affiliate marketers all over the world. Personally, in a very short time it’s been responsible for my own meeting of several new people. And that’s pretty cool.

Head on over to the BUMPzee! Affiliate Marketing Community.

(Soon after I post this, the old subdomain should redirect to the new site.)

  • Ash
    Everytime I've tried to visit bumpzee, I just get a blank screen, is this a problem on your side or mine.
  • Help!

    My bump this button is appearing on every other page of my site, except for the main page. The instructions "place this code in your templates between the loop" is very vague. What is the loop?

    I've placed the code in both my index template and page template, but it still doesn't work. Can any one here guide me? Please? :(
  • Must admit Bumpzee is turning into one of the site's that I make a bee-line for when I log on in the morning and when I want to take a break.

    With so many sites trying to catch on with the Web 2.0 buzz, it's actually great to find one that's useful!

    Well done Scott!
  • Scott
    thanks Fraser. I agree on the value of the niche and don't plan to broaden the affiliatemarketing community. Though it's possible that separate communities be set up. we'll see. I'll focus on this one for now.
  • Scott
    Thanks Keith, and yes, I'm contemplating a some sort of button.
  • Loving Bumpzee, great to have all my favourite AM blogs in one place and with all the others I never knew about there's no chance of actually getting any work done now.

    Any chance of some code so we can add a bumpzee button to our blogs along side digg etc.
  • Scott
    thanks guys.

    Leonard, I had a few people banging on the site today scaring out those errors and I guess that one sneaked through.

    If you can tell me what you did to get that, I'd appreciate it. (scott (at) jangro.com)

    (ADDED: I think I found the error, thanks!)
  • There's a login error right after it shows "cookies test successful" and followed by an error message:

    Not Found
    The requested URL /profile.php was not found on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
  • Scott, you are really outdoing yourself here. Don't know how you came up with the new name, but it's creative and fresh. It's getting better each day!
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