Social Bookmarking Video from Common Craft

Here's a neat video explaining social bookmarking from Common Craft.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

Now here's the thing that they don't talk about in the video -- those public bookmarks impact search engine rankings. So if you're a webmaster you want to make it as easy as possible for social users to add your pages to their bookmarks because that means your pages get moved up in Google. Social Bookmarking is a win-win -- good for web surfers and good for webmasters.

SociaLink's First Award

5 Star Award from Sofotex

Update to SociaLink

I just updated SociaLink to v 1.0.1. If you have a copy you should
download this update. When I was demoing it as Spring Break I ran
into a small bug with the link manager. I also got feed back from
Adobe's exchange techs with another bug -- this time a javascript bug
with IE 6 on Win XP (doesn't happen on other versions of Win). Plus I
added a feature where it remembers where the support files are in
your website so you don't have to be prompted every time you place a
SociaLink on a page.

Anyhow, all of those things were fixed. Hope you enjoy the software.

SociaLink v 1.0 brings Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking to Dreamweaver MX, MX2004, 8, & CS3

I'd like to announce the immediate availability of SociaLink version 1.0, a Dreamweaver extension for placing Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking tools into webpage layouts.

Social Bookmarking websites like Digg or Del.icio.us allow readers to tag, store and share content that they find interesting — and if that is your content it can lead to a lot more traffic. And not just lots of clicks, but quality readers who are likely to get more from your site and give more in return.

All you need to do is give those readers a little button on your page for them to click on. You can make a link, right? Well actually its a little piece of javascript. A different javascript for each social bookmarking site. With different parameters for each one. Not to mention opening in a new window or not. And they take up a lot of room in your layout, too.

But it doesn't have to be that hard. SociaLink can add all that functionality to your web pages from the convenience of Dreamweaver without code or complications. Simply insert the SociaLink into your web page, select which of the social bookmarking sites you want to include, and how you want to present the buttons (lots of site buttons or behind a single icon).

SociaLink was designed with web designers and developers in mind. You can control the number of rows or columns of icons, the CSS styles formatting those icons, you can even control the HTML between each icon. Not to mention activation with clicks or rollovers, opening in new windows, and a slew of other settings that will let you fit SociaLink right into your website in every possible way. It even integrates with Dreamweaver's Templates!

And once your audience starts to use these social bookmarking tools you'll see you traffic go up. Readers from the social bookmarking sites will discover your content. Social bookmarks are also stored as public web pages which are searchable. That means more pages with links to your content, so you'll also see your rankings in the search engines improve (and that's good for SEO!).

Get your copy of SociaLink now and make the power of Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking work for you!

http://www.rnsoft.com/en/products/socialink

SociaLink makes it simple to add Web 2.0 Social Bookmarks to Dreamweaver-based web layouts. RNSoft, developer of the award-winning RSS DreamFeeder & RSS Replay, creates software with a focus on simplicity and usability for computer users, web developers and programmers

SociaLink at Last

We quietly posted SociaLink -- a social bookmarking extension for Dreamweaver -- on the website last night. This continues our Web 2.0 theme in our extensions for Dreamweaver. We've got RSS Replay, RSS DreamFeeder, and now SociaLink. 

I've got lots to say about SociaLink, but that will begin on Monday with Press Releases and so forth. Its just nice to finally get it onto the website. Honestly, there's lots of new products in the pipeline and the next 6 months will see updates and intros probably on the order of 1 a month. There's also a new website and new tech support system cooking in there somewhere.

Anyhow I just wanted to post a quick note saying Hello SociaLink. I hope you use and enjoy the software.