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  • SocialAdr v2.65 Released

    6:53 am on November 21, 2011 | 0 Comments Permalink
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    Today we rolled out some updates for v2.65:

    • Added a new social networking site – ConnectFocus.
    • If you have enough credits, the SubmissionBoost checkbox on the “Add Bookmark” page will now be checked by default when you go to add a new bookmark.  This is to encourage the use of SubmissionBoost because it’s a great way to get more variety in your link building.
     
  • SocialAdr v2.64 Released

    6:45 pm on November 13, 2011 | 1 Comments Permalink
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    We just rolled out some new updates for v2.64:

    • The “Spin Preview” on “Add Bookmark” page code has been updated so now every time you click it you’ll see a new spun result.  Previously it would cache the result and you’d keep seeing the same thing over and over.  Read this post to learn more about spintax / spin tags.
    • Made updates to our bookmark submission engine to improve error reporting and reduce the stalling of threads.  What does this mean to SocialAdr members?  A higher submission rate = more promotions of your webpages = higher search engine rankings = more traffic.
    • Added an “Email address (again for verification)” field to the registration form to help reduce the number of times people have typos in their email addresses and thus never receive the verification email and cannot log into their account.
    • Performed server configuration changes to improve page load times.
    • Improved error reporting and submission logic for the following social media sites:  SoForce, Connotea, FriendFeed, TTLink, MySiteVote.

     
  • SocialAdr v2.52 Released

    7:00 pm on May 30, 2011 | 0 Comments Permalink
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    For this latest release we’ve added the ability to opt-out of Microblog posts (currently this just includes Twitter) at the bookmark level.  Previously this was only possible at the account level, for ALL your bookmarks.

    You’ll see a new checkbox near the bottom of the “Add Bookmark” page:

     
  • Announcing Twitter!

    9:09 am on May 11, 2011 | 9 Comments Permalink
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    After a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, we’ve finally completed the Twitter integration functionality!

    We’re especially excited about this because search engines more than ever are factoring what they call ‘social signals’ heavier and heavier in their algorithms. This means that having your bookmark URLs tweeted hundreds of times will push your sites up in the rankings, faster than ever before, shooting past your competition, while driving hordes of fresh traffic.

    Here’s how it all works:


    ‘Free’ Members

    1. First you need to head to the Setup Wizard.  Here you’ll create a new Twitter account (if need be) and authorize SocialAdr to access your Twitter account.
    2. Next, go to the Share Queue.  You should notice new buttons on each bookmark (they may take a few seconds to load).  By clicking these new buttons you’ll see a popover box like so: If the “Default” tweet message is ok, simply click “Submit”, otherwise feel free to type your own “Custom” message.  Keep in mind the bookmark URL will be auto-appended to the end of your message so you’ll only have about 110 or so characters for your message.  We’re using TinyURLs to shorten any long URLs in order to conserve as much space as possible for the tweet message.  You’re currently able to send a maximum of 5 tweets per day.
    3. Now you can head to the History – Tweets Sent page to view all the tweets you’ve sent.  You can see the URL you tweeted about, the SocialAdr user who owned the bookmark, a link to the actual tweet on Twitter.com, how many credits you received, and the timestamp of when it happened.

     


    All Members

    1. The number of credits that are earned/deducted for each tweet is calculated based on the # of Twitter followers the account has.
      • ((ln(followers+50)^2)/3)-4
      • Example:  a ‘Free’ member has a Twitter account with 2035 followers. Each tweet that they send will earn them 15.5 * 0.2 = 3.1 credits.  The 0.2 multiplier is consistent with how social bookmarking submission credits are calculated.  The member who owns the bookmark will be deducted 15.5 credits, regardless of which account type they have.
    2. On the Add Bookmark page you’ll see a new “Microblog Message” section that allows you to customize the default tweet message for each of your bookmarks.  The default message is simply the bookmark Title.The user who actually posts the tweet to their Twitter account can still choose to write their own custom message, but at least, as the bookmark owner, you can set a custom message that we believe most users will choose to use.  And good news, spin tags {|} are accepted!
    3. You can view the history of any tweets you’ve received on the History – Tweets Received page. You’re shown the URL that was tweeted about, the SocialAdr user who sent the tweet, a link to the actual tweet on Twitter.com, how many credits it cost, and the timestamp of when it happened.  Notice that the first row cost 15 credits, because “kane” must have had between 1,000 and 10,000 followers.  The second row cost 5 credits, because “jaspert” must have had between 100 and 1,000 followers.

     


    What if I don’t want users tweeting my bookmarks?

    No problem at all, you can opt-out here.

    (this latest release is SocialAdr v2.50)

     
  • Add Bookmark – Autofill Fields

    10:27 am on March 22, 2011 | 0 Comments Permalink
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    Due to popular request we’ve added a new feature:  Autofill Fields

    You’ll see this new button on the “Add Bookmark” page.

    Here’s how it works:

    1. Type or paste a URL into the “Address” field.
    2. Click the new “Autofill Fields” button.
    3. The Title, Description, and Tags fields will be autofilled.  The text is pulled from the HTML <HEAD> tags as defined on whatever webpage is listed in the Address.

    We still recommend you spin the Title and Description though, but at least now you’ll have some applicable text to use as a starting point.

    We’ve bumped up the # of bookmarks that Free members can view in the “Share Queue” from 20 to 40 so that should make it easier for you folks that are very selective on what you share.

    Also, we’ll unfortunately no longer be submitting bookmarks to Mister-Wong as they are now charging a monthly fee for accounts.

    These changes are all part of v2.35.

     
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