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With all the current Social Media Optimization Hype you might miss out on one social media site, that might really matter for your future SERP Rankings. Does your website feature a “Add to Google Bookmarks” button? Google Bookmarks is of course nothing else but Big-G’s clone of del.icio.us With the other current hype in mind, which is of course personalized search, having as much visitors as possible telling Google that your website is worthy of bookmarking should be obvious. Setting up a link is easy:

Add to Google Bookmarks
http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&title=Onlinenerd24&bkmk=http://www.onlinenerd24.de&labels=nerdfun,nerdblog,%20blog%20&annotation=News%20aus%20der%20shell%20f%C3%BCr%20alle%20Onlinenerds

Format a link to http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark and add the following urlencoded parameters:

op=add

title=Title of your page

bkmk=URL to bookmark

labels=Tags to label your bookmark

annotation=Annotation to the bookmark

After clicking this link, the user either has to log in to his Google Account or is immediatly prompted with a form, where he can review the data and finally add the bookmark. I haven’t figured out, if there is a way to diretly add the bookmark, without this intermediate form. This would be nice.

I use this feature on some of my pages, especially on pages that require a membership. Members, who signed up to my services and probably even pay for this seem to love the ability to get “easier” access to the websites by adding it to their bookmarks. I think people tend to see it as a nice service, when you offer this simple feature.

www.build.de  (Domain ist allerdings leider schon vergriffen)

Some niche websites you might want to build:

• Celebrity Social network
  Only celebrities are allowed to join and invite to this social network. Must supply personal data on DUI, drug usage and pregnancy from other celebtrities. You can monetize this website by selling this data to your local yellow press
• Billionaires Social Network
  Just take an annual membership fee of $10,000 and you can guarantee that only other billionaires join this network.

If you are building a custom web application like a social network website or a blog software, you probably want to enable every visitor to enter comments. This makes sense, since these comments generate free content for your new website. Of course these comment-forms have always been abused by web-spammers, that use guestbooks or blog’s comment-forms to promote their URLs. One way to fight this spam is using CAPTCHA images.

Another way, that might be a lot easier for the user, is AJAX. Just ajax your comment form and you make it a lot harder for automated spam-bots to “comment” on your website. AJAX comment forms are basically just very few lines of Javascript-code in the HTML source of your pages. The form itself is loaded and generated into the page by this Javascript. Of course this is not a 100% proof weapon against comment spam, but especially if you design a custom application this should reduce spam immediatly. I doubt that spam-bots are clever enough to dig through your custom Javascript-Code or know about the code used by existing AJAX-frameworks and figure out what parameters to send to which URL to generate a spammy entry.

There are a lot of free Ajax-Frameworks, that help you with building ajaxed forms. They can be integrated nicely in your web application.