Updates from February, 2012

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  The Wait Is Over – Facebook Has Arrived

  Kane 2:53 pm on February 26, 2012 | 0 Comments Permalink
  Tags: account type (3), credits (6), facebook (5), Facebook Likes (3), footprint (1), free (2), friends (2), history (6), lazy (3), Likes (2), opt-out (3), setup wizard (9), share queue (9), upgrade (6)

  

  It was a long time coming.  Truth be told we started development on Facebook integration in 2010.  Unfortunately there were some technical challenges that put the project on hold.  One of our main concerns with integrating a new social media service is the whole “footprint” issue, as well as the possibility of accounts being banned for “spam” or for being “too promotional”.   So these issues presented several challenges when it came to Facebook.

  The good news is, we’ve finally rolled it out and we believe our solution will be effective.  Subscribed members can now receive Likes on their URLs.

  What do I need to do to receive Facebook Likes?

  If you already have a ‘Lazy’ account, absolutely nothing.  If you don’t, you just need to upgrade.  Free members cannot receive Likes.

  Lazy Members

  Where can I view the history of Likes I’ve received?

  You can view your history at History > Facebook Likes Received

  How many credits does it cost for each Like?

  It’s based on the number of Facebook friends the user who clicked Like has.

  ((ln(friends+50)^2)/3)-4

  Example: A user has 356 Facebook friends and clicks Like on your URL.  You will lose 8 credits.

  How can I opt-out of receiving Likes?

  You can disable Likes for all your bookmark URLs here.

  Free Members

  How do I add my Facebook account to SocialAdr?

  Head over to the Setup Wizard page and authorize the SocialAdr Facebook app. Then you’ll see the Like buttons on the Share Queue page so you can start clicking them to earn credits.

  How many credits do I earn for each Like I click?

  It’s based on the number of friends your Facebook account has * a multiplier that’s related to your account type. For ‘Free’ users the multiplier is 0.1 (this is the same as when you share bookmarks).

  ((ln(friends+50)^2)/3)-4

  Example: A ‘Free’ user has 356 Facebook friends and clicks Like. She will earn 8 * 0.1 = 0.8 credits.

  Where can I view the history of Likes I’ve clicked?

  You can view your history at History > Facebook Likes Clicked

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  The rollout of Google +1 is SocialAdr release v2.72.

   

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  SocialAdr v2.72 Released

  Kane 2:29 pm on February 26, 2012 | 0 Comments Permalink
  Tags: control an account (1), documentation (1), domain (2), facebook (5), Facebook Likes (3), last activity (1), Likes (2), my bookmarks (10), overview (1), pagination (1), resellers (2), search results (1), sorting (1), submissions (3)

  This latest release includes many improvements to the My Bookmarks page:

  • Removed “Domain” column as it was redundant as the URL contains the domain
  • We now save the “state” (# entries shown, pagination, sorting, search results) so when you reload the page it looks the same as last time
  • Changed “Last Activity” column from friendly time (ie, 7 minutes ago) to a purely numeric representation of yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm so that the column was completely sortable
  • Updated “Submissions” column to be sortable even if fields contain strings (eg. 78 of 100)
  • Added link to Title field that went to a page where you can view the spun title, spun description, and tags

  We also updated the Overview documentation.  Details of new features had to be added and some irrelevant information was removed.

  The Resellers – Control an Account page has been updated to include buttons to all the history pages, including recent ones like Google +1 and Facebook Likes.

  And last but not least, we’ve added Facebook Likes!  Details about this will be in a following post.

   

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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 (2), my bookmarks (10), 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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