Updates from February, 2012

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  New, much easier to use, My Bookmarks page

  Kane 11:23 pm on February 4, 2012 | 0 Comments Permalink
  Tags: bookmarks (2), columns (1), design (1), domain (1), my bookmarks (8), new (1), requests (1), search (1), sort (1), url (1)

  We’ve had a lot of requests to improve the My Bookmarks page.  And we’ve listened.  It took us a while to figure out how we could make the new page easy to sort AND search (both features which were lacking in the old page), but we believe the vast majority of users will be thrilled with the new design.

  

  Some of the features of the new page include:

  • Sorting by all columns
  • Searching on all fields (makes it so much easier to find specific bookmarks)
  • Ability to display between 10-100 records per page
  • Quicker page load time than old page
  • Now showing Domain and URL, which are very useful when sorting or searching

  So what are ya waiting for?   Go check out the new page (Bookmarks > My Bookmarks) and let us know your thoughts

  If you don’t like the new page, the old page is still available (you’ll see a link in the top right corner that says >> Old Page <<).  We plan to keep it up for a while so that people have time to adapt to the new page.

  This new functionality is release v2.72.

   
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  SocialAdr v2.71 Released

  Kane 10:15 pm on January 25, 2012 | 0 Comments Permalink
  Tags: Alexa (4), bookmark title (2), chime.in (1), CSV (4), export (2), filename (1), social media site (3)

  Hey folks, here’s some changes we’ve recently rolled out:

  • Added a new social media site:  Chime.in.  It’s a fairly new and completely custom social networking / microblogging site that could become quite popular.  It already has an impressive Alexa rating of < 5,000.
  • Bug fix where if bookmark title had special characters the history export CSV filename would become corrupted.

  Cheers!

   
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  Improved indexing rates of social media links

  Kane 2:19 am on January 14, 2012 | 6 Comments Permalink
  Tags: backlinks indexer (1), backlinksindexer (1), google (2), indexation rates (1), indexing rates (1), noindex (1), rankings (3), robots.txt (1), seo (2), social media links (1)

  We’ve been experimenting for a while now on different techniques for improving search engine indexing rates.  And we’ve got some good news: we can happily say that we’ve found a service that seems to work quite well.

  BacklinksIndexer

  In our tests, we managed to increase the indexing rates of a random set of over 400 social media account URLs by nearly 50% (48% to be exact) over a 3 week period.  That’s huge.

  Why is it important for backlinks to be indexed?

  It’s widely believed in the SEO business that backlinks aren’t valuable unless they are visible in Google’s index (by doing a site: or info: search for the url in Google).  I personally think links can also be valuable (possibly less valuable though) if Google decides not to show them in their index, but that’s just my opinion.  My reasoning is that many sites use the noindex meta tag, but why should this mean that links from these pages to other pages should be ignored in determining rankings?

  What does this mean to SocialAdr members?

  All social media links created by SocialAdr will now be processed by BacklinksIndexer.   We’re not charging anything extra for this new feature, and there’s nothing you need to do to enable it for your account.

  By boosting the indexation rates, this should increase the “link juice” or SEO benefit of these links.  As far as exactly how much effect this should have on rankings, we’re not sure, but if you happen to notice any differences, we’d love to hear about it.

   
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  SocialAdr v2.70 Released

  Kane 2:17 am on January 10, 2012 | 3 Comments Permalink
  Tags: affiliates (4), commissions (1), CSV (4), google +1 (2), google plus one (2), mysitevote (5), paypal (1), stumbleupon (2), submissionboost (5), tweets (7), twitter (8)

  We’ve just rolled out some updates to SocialAdr:

  • You can now get affiliate commissions paid out with SocialAdr credits (at an awesome rate of 1 cent = 1 credit), rather than PayPal
  • Updated StumbleUpon and MySiteVote connectors to have better error reporting
  • Added ability to export CSV SubmissionBoost results at the bookmark level (rather than for ALL bookmarks)
  • Free members can no longer receive Tweets, they can only send Tweets to earn credits
  • We’ve reduced the credits earned by Tweeting and normal bookmark shares by 1/2.  This is because we realized after adding Twitter and Google +1 that Free users were able to earn way more credits than originally intended.

   
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  SocialAdr v2.69 Released

  Kane 12:01 am on December 22, 2011 | 0 Comments Permalink
  Tags: diigo (1), download (2), error reporting (2), history download (1), my bookmarks (8), mysitevote (5), sitesays (3), soforce (2), spin tags (3), spintax (2), submission count (2), submission rates (2)

  For this latest release, we’ve:

  • Added “History Download” for individual bookmarks.  This has been requested by several people doing SEO consulting that need to send complete history to their clients.  Now it’s much, much easier!  Just go to History > My Bookmarks, click on the “Submission Count” field for the bookmark you want history for, then scroll to the bottom and enter dates, then click “Download”.
  • Updated spintax function to be more robust.  It can now handle multi-nested spin tags and has better spintax error reporting. This function is used to spin your bookmark Titles and Descriptions during submission to the social media sites.
  • Improved the connector code for Diigo, MySiteVote, SiteSays, and SoForce social bookmarking sites to have better submission rates and error reporting.

  Happy Holidays!