Snapshots

Get snapshots for your site. The following is lifted from snapshots.com.

Snap Shots makes it easier for site owners to empower their readers with enhanced hyperlinks that display previews, text summaries, videos, stock charts, MP3s, product info, and much, much more. Just roll your cursor over this link to see how it works.

What are the benefits for site owners?

Snap Shots allows site owners to make editorial decisions about what enhanced content to display and then to deploy it as easily as creating a hyperlink. This leads to greater visitor satisfaction and a satisfied visitor is more likely to come back.

For example:

• Snap Shots can automatically change their content to match linked content – the iPod wiki entry is very different than the iPod product page which is very different than the AAPL stock chart.
• VideoShots and AudioShots save space on your website by not requiring you to embed large images to trigger videos and audio.
• Snap Shots are effective when you link to articles from the same source - differences (i.e. headlines and pictures) are easier to perceive once within a repeating pattern (i.e page design).
• Snap Shots work well on blog rolls and text-heavy directory or results pages.
• Snap Shots can help fight link rot and reduce the number of trips to such pages.
• New! Make money with Snap Shares™, our new program that lets you use a portion of our ad inventory to display ads where you get the revenue. Alternatively, you can choose to write your own ad, or donate the space to charity. Read about Snap Shares™ here.

What are the benefits for site users?

Snap Shots give users control over what links to click on by making those links more useful, thus helping them navigate the Internet with greater speed and accuracy.

For example, Snap Shots can:

• Display a video without requiring a big, embedded image.
• Summarize a Wikipedia entry, including the links.
• Show a celebrity bio and picture.
• Chart a stock’s current price.
• Highlight a product’s retail page.
• Play an MP3, and show available graphics and title info.
• Present a photo album from Flickr.
• Display a preview of a site PreviewShot for any other URL and tell the users:
  • If they have already read the linked content.
  • If the link points to a trusted source.
  • If the destination page requires registration.
  • If the linked content is Not Safe For Work.

Batfinger web designs can add snapshots to your site.  Snapshots can be used for internal / external links on your site, on every page or just for your links page.  Check out lesbrownart.com, shorebreakers.com.au and hey right here for some use of snapshots.