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The Web Search: SearchWarp's Past and Present!

Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 (40 days 10 hours ago.) Viewed 26 times.

SearchWarp.com is going back to its roots. We started out five years ago as a web search and we've slowly grown to what we are today: a community of writers who submit quality articles and a destination for those looking for information.

Recently, we reintroduced web searching functionality for SearchWarp.com readers and writers. In addition to searching articles on SearchWarp, you can now search the internet. Searchwarp's new web search, powered by Yahoo!, is at the top of every page of the site. Simply type in your keywords and click "Search the Web." On your results page, you'll see a listing of the top sites featuring your keywords. You'll also see a tag cloud of the most popular searches at that time.

Our hope is that SearchWarp.com can be a place where you can find the information you're looking for, through either our excellent catalog of articles or our thorough search of other sites on the internet. Make SearchWarp.com your home. And while you're here, write an article about what YOU know, and join in the conversation!

Rob Trahan,
SearchWarp.com Marketing Director

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New Features Added To SearchWarp

Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 (70 days 4 hours ago.) Viewed 11 times.

We are happy to announce three new features for our authors at SearchWarp.com. We are always striving to make SearchWarp.com not just a destination, but a home. With that in mind, here are three more ways to make you, the author, feel at home.

  • Industry Experts highlight - Did you know we have many authors who are experts in their field? Our new Industry Expert feature aims to highlight those authors whose field might not normally get them on the SearchWarp.com homepage. Our first two experts are experts in the swimming pool industry and autoCAD building design. If you have at least 10 years experience in your field and would like to be considered as a SearchWarp Industry Expert, we'd love to hear from you!
  • Upcoming Birthdays - Wish your fellow authors a happy birthday and have them return the favor. On the upcoming birthdays page, you can leave a birthday wish for an author and he or she will receive it along with others in an email on his or her birthday. Don't forget to add your birthday so others can send along their birthday wishes!
  • Favorite Articles - View the article recently selected by you and others as favorite articles. Clicking the new Favorite Articles button in your control panel will show your list of favorites. You will have those articles at your fingertips for easy reference. Using the new Favorites page, you can also see what articles others have recently chosen as their favorites. You may see a gem that you had previously missed, or find that someone really liked your latest article.
Stay tuned for more new features as we work to improve your experience at SearchWarp.com!

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How To Benefit From SearchWarp Tag Clouds

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 (85 days 2 hours ago.) Viewed 16 times.

By now I'm sure you've noticed the large box full of search keywords at the top of your list of articles. This is the new SearchWarp.com tag cloud. The tag clouds on SearchWarp.com aren't like traditional tag clouds.

Ordinarily, tag clouds are used to show the reader what keywords submitters used on their submissions. For example, a stock photography site might use a tag cloud on a group of images so a user could see what keywords to search to find what they are looking for. Make sense?

By contrast, the SearchWarp.com tag cloud works to show you, the writer, what keywords readers use to find your articles. It is a quick way to see what is popular right now.

How It Works
The tag clouds are automatically generated. The newest search keywords are at the top of the cloud and the more common the phrase, the bigger it is. SearchWarp.com also has a global tag cloud, which can be accessed from the home page.

How It Benefits You
Consider the tag cloud as a snapshot. It shows you what people are searching for at any given moment, and how many are searching. For example, right now May 2008 horoscopes is the top search, plus it's a highly searched topic. If you write about horoscopes, you could take that into consideration when writing your next article.

If the tag cloud does not interest you, turning it off is simple. Just go to your list of articles and click "Don't Display Tag Cloud."

So there you go. Another innovation by the staff at SearchWarp.com. Use it. Enjoy it. Write!

Rob Trahan
SearchWarp.com Marketing Director

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What I Need To Know About The SearchWarp Readers' Club

Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 (87 days 4 hours ago.) Viewed 9 times.

You've no doubt noticed some interesting new enhancements to SearchWarp in recent weeks. Tag clouds, improved comments, the return of the writing contests and more.

One new feature that has gone a little under the radar is the Readers' Club. Once you understand what it is and what value it has, the Readers' Club will be your new best friend!

How It Works
You read and rate an article and receive a point. If you leave a comment of at least 10 characters, you receive another point. For every point you receive, one of your articles will be read and rated by a peer. It's that simple.

What's In It For You
Most importantly, your articles get read. That is why you write, after all! In addition, articles with comments tend to receive more traffic than those without. The more you read and comment, the more of your articles will be read and commented on. It's win-win. And I don't even need to mention the added benefit of learning something from your fellow SearchWarp writers. That just goes without saying (even though technically I just said it).

There you go, the SearchWarp Reader's Club in a nutshell. Read, rate, comment. Repeat as desired.

Now get to it!

Rob Trahan
SearchWarp Marketing Director

Next up on the blog: Tag Clouds

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New Additions and Updates to SearchWarp

Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 (94 days 3 hours ago.) Viewed 23 times.

Do you miss the regular writing contests held on SearchWarp?

Do you miss the regular SearchWarp announcements and newsletters?

We hope so ...

We are happy to announce that SearchWarp has just hired Rob Trahan as our new Marketing Director!

Rob has many years of experience working with corporate branding and marketing, as well as a passion for the Internet and all things cutting-edge. His responsibilities at SearchWarp will include improving communication with the members of SearchWarp by reviving the regular newsletters, blogging here on the official SearchWarp blog, and engineering new contests for you, our members! Rob will also be working new ideas to attract new writers. If you get a chance, please drop a note to Rob to welcome him to SearchWarp.

It's hard for us to write about SearchWarp itself. SearchWarp is a great web site only because of the great writers who choose to contribute, and no matter what new features are added to SearchWarp, the web site is only a simple medium which allows some truly fascinating writers to be published and read by thousands.  That being said, here are some of the new features that have been added over the past few months:
  • Hot Comments list, which shows which articles are receiving the most comments in the past week, at http://searchwarp.com/HotComments.htm.
  • Favorite Articles lists in each members control panel.
  • Who's Online Now at http://searchwarp.com/OnlineNow.htm.
  • Hot New Articles list, which shows the most popular articles that are less than a week old, at http://searchwarp.com/HotArticles.htm.
  • Tag Clouds for each writer, and a global tag cloud at http://searchwarp.com/TagCloud.htm.
  • Banners for writers to display on their own web sites, found in the control panel.
  • A Readers' Club for writers to read and have their articles read, found in the control panel.
  • A new comment system which allows comments to be commented on (you have to see it to understand it!).
Have a great week, you'll be hearing from us soon!

Bruce Horst
SearchWarp.com


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