Blog Updates & Enhancements

You’ve probably noticed that here at the Yahoo! Publisher Network blog, we like to use a lot of Yahoo! features. If not, look at the right-hand margin (psst! that way →), and scroll up and down. You’ll notice (among other things):

• A Flickr badge that links to photos that our team has taken at various events, and around our Burbank campus.
• An Upcoming.org badge, where we invite you to attend our future events.
• A del.cio.us Tag Cloud, which takes you to our shared links and bookmarks.

In addition, you’ll also notice (on the top of this post) Bookmark, Send and Blog via 360º actions buttons.

 

(BTW - If you’ve come to this article via your RSS feed, which takes you directly to the permalink page, you won’t see the features in the right margin that we’re talking about. For that, you’ll have to visit the home page.)

 

Publishers have asked how they can take advantage of these and other features on their own blogs and Web sites. Luckily, they’re open to all Yahoo! (and even non-Yahoo!) users at no charge. Most are pretty easy to implement.

 

In response, we’ve added a page to the blog that gives you a little more context around these features and provides links to Yahoo! pages where you can get more information and instructions. You’ll find a permanent link to the page in the right margin.

 

In addition to the features on this page, Yahoo! offers lots of others to help you build the best content experience you can for your users with the least effort and cost. These include:

• Y! Q – Search results contextual to your content
• Affiliate Programs – Earn extra income with these programs
• Finance, Maps, Hotjobs, Weather – RSS Feeds and APIs that deliver content right to your site

 

From time to time we’ll be publishing tips on how to best use Yahoo! features.

 

Tomorrow: How and Why to Add the Yahoo! Search Box.

 

— The Team