Social Networking Tags on HCW -Please use them

[hotcouponmama]

Hey all,

In the bottom of each post, you'll see social networking tags for digg, delicious, etc.

These are your way of recommending the site, a particular post, thread, etc to others. And it helps with the indexing of the site in several ways. And, hopefully, we'll get some other like-minded people finding HCW as a result.

So if you find a post you like, please be sure to use those icons in the post. You'll find them on the bottom left corner of the post. And I haven't checked yet, but I think they are in the blog posts as well.

Note that you do need to be a member of those sites to recommend posts to others.

Thanks!

[hotcouponmama]

I just posted in the announcement section that they are social networking tags.

Basically, you can "rate" and suggest a post to others in larger communities like digg, delicious, furl and technorati - and then others can see the posts outside HCW.

You have to be logged in to those sites to recommend the posts, but it's a great way for us to show what couponing is about to others, so if people are inclined to help support the site in that way, it helps us in lots of categoris like search and more.

[Mikki 316]

Thanks! I don't check other sites, so maybe I should do that so I can link to HCW.

[cuzisaidso]

Also, you can click Linkback at the top of the thread and bookmark the whole thread.

[JANE4girls]

so you click on them and it does what? lol

[hotcouponmama]

You click on them, if you are enrolled at the other site, and you can index a thread here over there so that others can find it. If lots of people are indexing your blog for example as a "must read" blog, people at those other 4 sites can find it, read it, find HCW, etc.
But you do have to have an account for each site.

More and more, it's a way of cross referencing pages from sites all over the net - it's a different way to search besides google. And then the content isn't usually some of the spammy crap you get when you do a google search - since it's user generated and added to those sites, it's usually real content, not just weird home pages with ads and redirects that you sometimes get with google.

And since it's tagged by the user:

(Jane's blog - groceries food coupons money-saving etc)

then when another user searches, the content is more relevant to your search.

[JANE4girls]

awesome...I will start clicking away!

[love2cook]

I don't mean to sound dumb but what are these other 4 sites?

[buddysmom]

Originally Posted by love2cook I don't mean to sound dumb but what are these other 4 sites?

Same here - I dont get it. What kind of sites are they?