8 Comments

Three Free BUMPzee! Goodies

May 17, 2007
by

BUMPzee! , the blog communities, RSS reader and social networking site by Scott Jangro became quite popular. It started out as a blog community for affiliate marketers, extended to search engine marketing and allows today the creation of your own custom communities, if there is none yet that covers the topic that is dear to your heart.

Widgets are another popular feature provided by BUMPzee! and also the recently added light analytics are nice. BUMPZee! surpassed MyBlogLog.com in regards to possible use and options by far already some months ago and is working today on doing the same in regards to number of users who are using the platform.

While widgets and gadgets are plenty of available for bloggers and webmasters, did I miss some nice little gadgets for the average users. So I decided to create them myself and made them available on my website.

I created a set of three little things, which I hope you will enjoy.

The “Bump This” BUMPzee! bookmarklet lets you “bump” any blog post in BUMPzee! regardless if the blog owner installed the existing “Bump it” widget on his blog or not.

The BUMPzee! custom Google Toolbar button and Search Option is for all users of the popular Google Toolbar to add the BUMPzee! blog entries search to the toolbar as additional search option.

Internet Explorer 7 introduced a build in search box and the ability to add custom search providers. The configuration is not that easy so I created a little tool that does the BUMPzee! IE7 search provider configuration for you via a click on a button.

To also provide some goodies for the webmasters out there, am I providing detailed instructions to how to make the three little tools available on your own website to your visitors.

Check them out!

Use the contact form, send me an email or leave a comment here at the blog, if you have any questions, feedback or recommendations.

Cheers!
Carsten

About Carsten Cumbrowski

Internet Marketer, Entrepreneur and Blogger. To learn more about me and what I am doing, visit my website and check out the “about” section.

Twitter: ccumbrowski
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing + RSS Feeds/Syndication + Search Engine Marketing + Social Media + Social Networks & Networking
  • http://www.webstractions.com/news WebStractions

    Hey Carsten — I just added the bookmarklet to my toolbar and have a question.

    When I bump the post, it takes me to the “Create an Entry” page at Bumpzee, but the external base Url is to your Homepage. Shouldn’t the external Url point at the post itself?

  • http://www.cumbrowski.com Carsten Cumbrowski

    The create an entry form comes up in two cases.

    1) If the blog is registered and known to BUMPzee. The post is too new and BUMPzee did not index it yet.

    2) The blog is not known to BUMPzee! yet at all

    In case 1) is it probably a good idea to wait a little longer. Maybe Scott can tell what the average time is for checking blogs for new entries.

    In case 2), simply enter a Title and brief description for the Post (like you would do, if you submit it to Digg or Del.icio.us) and paste the URL to the post itself into the designated field.

    Windows sets the Base URL automatically. I can’t influence that. You can change the baseurl manually afterwards by editing the .url file on your computer, but there is no need to do that, because it does not influence how the bookmarklet works.

  • http://www.cumbrowski.com Carsten Cumbrowski

    Shoot, there was a bug though. It should be location.href instead of location.host in the Javascript. I fixed that. Delete the bookmarklet and add it again or change the .url file yourself.

    Sorry for that.

  • http://www.webstractions.com/news/ WebStractions

    re: Case 1 — maybe Scott can check the host of the bump against the database. If there, update the feed so it will go through or at least, move it to the top of the queue.

    As for the bug, that would explain why I was going to the Create page.

    Nice favelet Carsten. I think this is also handy for even pages that have the bump icon on them already. Nobody puts them in the same place anyway, or the blog is so “busy” with graphics that makes it harder to locate.

  • http://www.cumbrowski.com Carsten Cumbrowski

    Thanks.. and regarding the suggestion for BUMPzee!. I noticed that you also added a comment at the discussion at Bumpzee. I just wanted to suggest that :) . Nice Job. Cheers!

    I created the Bookmarklet for more selfish reasons. I wanted to bump posts on blogs that are in BUMPzee, but don’t have the “Bump” button on their site. And while I was at that did I think about the Google Button and the IE7 search providers and while I was doing that, did I think that it would be nice to help other webmasters to offer it to their users.

    Well, I spent more time on it than I initially planned to spend on it, but that’s how it goes. But I think the result is much better than just the bookmarklet by itself.

  • http://www.webstractions.com/news/ WebStractions

    Well you inspired me to write two search plugins for Firefox. One for 2.0 and higher which supports OpenSearch and the Sherlock format for earlier versions of Firefox.

    I was going to go crazy and do one for BlogCatalog, but after seeing the search results that they hand out … it was pointless. :(

  • http://www.cumbrowski.com Carsten Cumbrowski

    Nice, I added a link to your site to the Internet Explorer 7 Search Provider section for all the Firefox users out there who can’t use the IE7 feature.

  • http://www.webstractions.com/tools/firefox.php WebStractions

    Thanx for the link Carsten.