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Fan Bookmarking Ball

Monday, October 6th, 2008

So check this out.  All fans can bookmark your products on any product page:

Fan Bookmarking

When a fan logs in to their account they will be able to easily view their favorite products:

My Product Bookmarks

How do I set up social bookmarking for my store?

Friday, December 21st, 2007

AddThis.com is a social bookmarking tool that will allow your customers to share your product pages with the world. These directions explain how to sign up for an AddThis.com account and set it up to work with your Flying Cart store.

  1. Go to http://addthis.com/account.php
  2. Create a free account by entering your email, selecting a username, and choosing a password
  3. *Important* remember your username
  4. Login to your Flying Cart Head Quarters
  5. Navigate to Store -> Settings
  6. Enter in your AddThis username

What is Social Bookmarking?

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Social Bookmarking is a quick way to bookmark a page on the web and share it with other internet users.

Flying Cart has created an easy way to add social bookmarks to each product page, here are the instructions.
Here is a pretty good definition of Social Bookmarking according to Wikipedia

Social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages. In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, but depending on the service’s features, may be saved privately, shared only with specific people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, via a search engine, or even randomly.”

Need a video?… Here is one that I found explaining one of the most popular Social Bookmarking tools: Delicious.

3 BIG Benefits to using Social Bookmarks:

1. Great for Search Engine Optimization, the more your website is linked the better your keywords will appear in Search Engines

2. Increases interaction with your visitors

3. Will provide referral based visitors (the best kind)

Top 5 Social Bookmarking Sites you should always bookmark yourself on
1. Delicious

2. Digg

3. Google Bookmarks

4. Reddit

5. Yahoo Bookmarks