Snap Shots™

Suggestions on how to best communicate your new functionality

The following are some simple steps that, in the experience of tens of thousands of site owners, have proved to work best when implementing Snap Shots™ on a web site or blog:

Customize Your Snap Shots

To make Snap Shots feel more integrated into your site, we designed them to be customized with your logo and your choice of color theme and language. READ MORE

Make sure to use the Snap Shots Icon

Readers really appreciate knowing which links have Snap Shots and which ones don’t. The Snap Shots Icon makes it instantly clear. READ MORE

Explain the new functionality to your readers

When you install Snap Shots on your site, you should tell your users about the new functionality. The announcement should include instructions on how the end-user can disable Snap Shots if they don’t like it. For example… READ MORE

Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com

I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more.

Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it lets you "look ahead," before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.

Should you decide this is not for you, just click the Options icon in the upper right corner of the Snap Shot and opt-out.

Please feel free to copy the text above, or write something along the same lines yourself.

Put a Snap Shots Badge on your site

With a Snap Shots badge, everyone will know there's nothing ordinary about your site. It lets your readers know that your links are enhanced and, if they like the functionality, where to get their own free shots... READ MORE

Add a Snap Shots badge to your site by selecting the code next to your favorite below and pasting it into your web site's template.