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How about all of those cute little buttons?  Kind of nifty, eh?  For those of you who don't spend anywhere near as much time in front of a computer as I do, here's a little run down on what they do and why they are there.

The first button is there to access the Search Kindly RSS-feed.  What this does is notify you every time there is either a new comment on the Comment Wall or a new post on the blog.  It's kind of handy for those days that you forget that there are other things going on at Search Kindly.  If you aren't currently using an RSS-reader, you might want to try out Google's new product, Google Reader.  They even have a video explaining exactly how the whole process works.

The second buttonis a link that allows you to immediately digg any page on Search Kindly that you find particularly interesting.  Digg.com is a social bookmarking website...think of a newspaper filled with articles that readers thought were the best from all over the country.  Digg would be the online version of that newspaper.  And just so you all know, Digg is a seriously powerful force.  Websites have been put out of commission by all of the traffic that being on the front page of Digg can generate.  It would be HUGE if Search Kindly could get on the front page of Digg.  From what I read, the Digg-effect is the most powerful of traffic-generating phenomena on the Internet. 

And the third little button is for Stumble Upon.  This is a site that is similar to Digg, except that it's more about recommending websites as a whole, versus just the articles in them.  If you like to be surprised with lots of interesting sites, flipping through this site's submissions is always a good time.

The number-four button belongs to del.icio.us...which is more of the same, with a little twist.  Imagine this as a public 'Favorites' list.  A lot of people like to use this site instead of adding to a list on their own computer because this way they will have access to their favorites no matter where they are. 

The fifth is Fark.  Ha, funny name.  Fark is, according to the site, "a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site. Every day Fark receives 2,000 or so news submissions from its readership."  Fark is another site that can seriously skyrocket a website's traffic.  Getting farked, as they say, can do a world of good.  It's on par with being dugg.

Sixth in line is Google Bookmarks.  Enough said.

Number seven...same as Google, except that it's Yahoo.  Note:  Just because I'm not saying much about either Yahoo or Google bookmarks doesn't mean that they aren't useful.  Actually, they are really handy...it's just that neither one can do all that much to boost Search Kindly's traffic levels.

Eight is for Reddit, the archrival of Digg.  Not a bad site, but I don't think it's anywhere near as popular as Digg.  Still worth checking out, though.

The ninth spot leads you to Furl, which is, "a free service that saves the important items you find on the Web and enables you to quickly find them again. Furl archives a personal copy of every page you save. When you want to recall it, you can find it instantly by searching the full text your archived items. Each member has a personal archive of 5 gigabytes (GB), large enough to store tens of thousands of searchable items."  Handy-dandy service, I'm guessing.

The tenth button is for a site that I had never heard of, but got a kick out of reading about.  Instead of an About Us page, they have a Code of Conduct.  The site is similar to Digg and Fark, except that I don't think it's as large...which could be a good thing.  Might lead to higher-quality traffic, the kind that continues to come back.

And the last spot belongs to a site that has some serious influence on the web--Technorati.  "Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World LiveWeb, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”  This site really is huge.  Being ranked highly by them leads to instant credibility...and instant traffic.

I'd really like to get into why all of those buttons are there and exactly how they can and will benefit Search Kindly, but I'm really tired right now.  And I have to get up pretty early to pick up two engine blocks and a transmission from some random corner of central Illinois.  But I'll be sure to get back to this.

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