Website tips - Bookmarking
Posted on November 17, 2008
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Bookmarking is a very important aspect of website availability to your visitors.
Giving your visitors a convenient method of adding your site and being able to quickly return to it, will provide several benefits:
- Recognition - Your visitors will recognize and associate you as a technology aware agent.
- Tracking - Most website statistic counters can track how many times your site has been bookmarked
- Ease of navigation - Giving your visitors a bookmark will allow them to easily navigate to your site. This can also be tracked by many statistic counters.So, how do you do it?There are several ways a visitor can bookmark a website as I’m sure you are aware. The most often used method in IE or FireFox is to “Add to Favorites/Bookmark”. Did you also know that holding down the Ctrl key and pressing ‘D’ would also do this?But that really doesn’t help you to provide a method to your visitors. So, here is some code you can add to any webpage on your website:
<a href=”javascript:window.external.AddFavorite(’http://www.YOURWEBSITEURL.com’,'Favorites NAME OF YOUR WEBSITE 1′)”>Bookmark </a><strong>NAME OF YOUR WEBSITE 2
Replace the YOURWEBSITEURL with the url for your website. Also replace the NAME OF YOUR WEBSITE 1 with text you want to be displayed in their favorites list and replace NAME OF YOUR WEBSITE 2 with what you want displayed on your website.
That’s it.
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Will this code above put a book mark link in your content area. Do you have any examples
Mike,
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
What it does is place a link on a page that a visitor can click which will add the URL of the link to their favorites.
An example can be found on the home page of Panama City Beach Real Estate just under the quick searches.
You can also change the link from a text link to an image link if you prefer.
If we can be of further assistance feel free to comment or ask questions as needed.
Good luck and happy holidays.