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If you missed the email, we just wanted to let you know that we’ll be at Traffic Rock Stars this weekend.  If you haven’t heard about it, Traffic Rock Stars is a free virtual conference running all weekend, featuring big name marketers like Yanik Silver, Mike Filsaime, Jeff Johnson, and more.  They are all talking about how to drive big traffic to your website, so it’s definitely worth checking out.

Plus, like I mentioned, SocialAdr is being featured.  So you can come visit us at our booth, or tune in on Sunday morning to hear me talk about using social bookmarking to drive traffic to your sites.

Here’s that link: Traffic Rock Stars

On the edit bookmark screen, in the bottom right corner, you’ll see the box where you can enter the number of submissions you would like a bookmark to receive:

When choosing a limit, don’t forget that each site counts as a submission.  Setting a very low limit means that your bookmark might not even make it to each social bookmarking site once.

Once you’ve set a limit, it will show up in a couple of places.  First, under my bookmarks, we will now show you how many submissions you’ve received (instead of the old ‘share’ value) and what the limit is.  Looks like this:

And finally, we also show you on the bookmark detail page, so you can see it before you edit:

Once your bookmark has reached the submission limit, we’ll automatically pause it for you.  You can always go in and increase the submission limit and then un-pause it if you’d like to promote it more in the future.

We’re hoping that this new capability will let our members have much better control over exactly how their sites and pages are promoted.  Let us know what you think!

Next time you log in, you’ll see a new tab:

Within that affiliate section you’ll find everything you need to start earning recurring commissions.  Yes, when you refer paying members you continue to earn a commission every month as long as they stay with us.

The affiliate section contains your affiliate links (multiple different landing page options depending on how you’re promoting), banners, emails, signature links, and more.  It also lets you check in on your current commissions, pending payments, and run some detailed reporting to see how many people have come through your link and how many of them signed up.

So what are you waiting for?  Now you can share your favorite social bookmarking tool with your friends and customers, and make money at the same time.

Every time a member clicks to share something, we create a ‘work order’ for that bookmark and put it into a work processing queue, which is basically just a big list of all the bookmarks we have to process.  Every couple minutes we go looking for work to do, and if we find any, we pull the top few out and start kicking them out to the bookmarking sites.

Depending on how many work orders are in that queue, it could take a while for us to get around to one near the bottom of the list.  But that’s ok – there’s no reason that the bookmarks need to be posted right when the button gets clicked, and it was never intended to do so.  Up until recently, it usually happened pretty quickly anyway, but as the number of users on the system scales up, that near-real-time result is less and less likely to happen.

Don’t worry though, once a bookmark has gone into the work queue it will be processed, even if it’s not right away.

To tackle both of these challenges, we moved SocialAdr to a new web host this past week.  For the most part it was a smooth transition, although we do have just a couple of minor configuration tweaks that we’re getting cleaned up.  The one impact to our customer has been that the speed with which we’re able to process the bookmarks they’ve shared is somewhat decreased.  The work is still recorded and will be completed eventually, but it hasn’t been as timely as we’d like.

We’re leveraging the enhanced support capabilities of our new host to get it resolved and expect things to return to usual shortly.  For the long run, we’re better positioned at our new home to rapidly scale up as our user base grows.

Once the new year hits, expect things to pick up again.  But in the meantime, if you haven’t checked out this page on how to get the most out of your SocialAdr account, it’s definitely worth a quick read.  There are a few simple steps you can take to make sure that your getting the most bang for your buck.

I especially like the part where Kane’s neighbor decided it would be a good idea to strike up a conversation with him.

As you know, nothing on the Internet works perfectly.  We see random errors popping up with every bookmarking service, so we don’t get too panicky when it happens.  Sometimes there are bigger problems though, and those are what have been driving the changes to the services.  The services that we’ve turned off fall into a couple categories:

1. Services that go down – Some services that were working well for us, like Backflip, just turn off.  In their case, it sounds like there was a problem with their host and they haven’t been able to get a restore.  They went down in October and are still not working, so we had to find someone else to replace them.  We had a similar problem with Searchles – they just randomly stopped working at all.  Luckily they came back, and we do monitor to see when services are working again so that we can add them back into SocialAdr.
2. Services that are flaky – Some services seemed good when we evaluated them, or we received a recommendation for them, but once we implemented and started using them it turned out they just weren’t reliable.  When we see error rates at a steady 50%, it’s just not worth the hassle for us or for our users.
3. Services that are aggressively opposed to software – We want to play nicely with social bookmarking services, and feel that because we only place links that our users choose to bookmark, there’s no reason we shouldn’t all get along.  But a couple of services, like Simpy, would definitely prefer that we did not connect to them.  We much prefer to just drop them and replace the service with someone else.

We think that we’ve got a solid, stable core of 14 services now, plus a couple that are probably on their way out.  We may leave them in for a while as a sort of ‘bonus’, in that we aren’t counting them into our number of links but they do work sometimes.  We’re expecting the churn to drop off drastically from this point forward, and are hoping not to need to replace any more services for a while.