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  Improved Spin Logic for Social Submissions

  Kane 3:14 pm on November 15, 2012 | 0 Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: bookmarks (7), enhancement (2), free (6), logic (1), search engines (3), social accounts (1), social submissions (1), spintax (7), title (3), user voice (1), variation (1)

  We’ve been reading all the great feedback through our User Voice page, and one enhancement people wanted was for us to generate a unique spintax {|} variation for every distinct social media submission, and not just for each ‘share’.

  We took this to heart and got it done.

  Here’s an example…

  Bookmark Title = SocialAdr is {awesome|great|kickass|super duper|swell}

  Before

  When a Free user sees this bookmark, decides they like it, and clicks a button to submit it to their social accounts, our processing engine would generate a spintax variation of the Title, and use that for all the social accounts for that user.

  Delicious = SocialAdr is awesome

  StumbleUpon = SocialAdr is awesome

  Pinterest = SocialAdr is awesome

  Diigo = SocialAdr is awesome

  …and so on…

  Now

  Now our processing engine generates a spintax variation of the Title for each of the social accounts for that user.

  Delicious = SocialAdr is awesome

  StumbleUpon = SocialAdr is kickass

  Pinterest = SocialAdr is super duper

  Diigo = SocialAdr is swell

  …and so on…

  Hopefully that makes sense

  We weren’t super concerned with the old logic, because search engines don’t discover all the links immediately anyways, it can often take weeks for them to discover some of the links.  And if your bookmarks are receiving submissions each day, and for every user who shares your bookmarks a spintax variation is generated, over time there should be a lot of variety.

  But…this new logic is definitely better, there’s no doubt about that.  It’s yet another step forward in reducing a footprint.

  * this update is v2.740

   

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  Announcing Twitter!

  Kane 9:09 am on May 11, 2011 | 11 Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: add bookmark (19), credits (10), history (8), microblog (2), opt-out (3), search engines (3), share queue (13), social signals (1), TinyURL (2), tweets (9), twitter (17)

  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:

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  ‘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.

   
  

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  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.

   

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  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)

   
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  And now presenting…Auto Pinging!

  Kane 10:50 pm on June 24, 2010 | 0 Comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: backlinks (7), bots (1), crawl (1), index (1), ping (1), pinger (1), rankings (4), search engines (3)

  The latest SocialAdr v2.25 enhancement is a pinging service that notifies search engines when new bookmarks are submitted to the social bookmarking sites.  The primary benefit of pinging is so that the search engine bots are aware of the new or updated pages and (hopefully) decide to index/crawl them quicker.  When this happens they see the backlinks to your pages faster and your rankings should improve quicker.

  We know that a lot of members have been manually pinging the pages their bookmarks appear on, so this should help all those folks free up some precious time.

  And best of all, there’s absolutely nothing you need to do to get it to work and we’re not charging a cent for it.  This new service will work for every SocialAdr user effective immediately.

  In addition, this release includes a bug fix on the “Add Bookmark” page that wouldn’t allow special characters like ampersand (&) to be used in the Spin Preview.