Bookmark My Favorites!

A great way to bring traffic back to your site is to offer your visitors a quick way to bookmark it or add it to their favorites list. It is no secret that you should bookmark sites that you like and want to return to later. But sometimes your visitors may need a helpful reminder. After all, the web is a huge place and lots of distractions could take them away from your site quickly. There have been countless times I personally wished I had bookmarked a site. Weeks later when I remember having visited it briefly, I discovered it had become lost forever in my history file or my history file was dumped.

Placing the bookmark option on all your pages or at least the important pages is a proven method to bring visitors back. The process is quick and simple. Just add the snippet of code below in your source code as indicated. Note: The bookmark link will not work in Netscape. Netscape users will be instructed to use Ctrl+D to add the page to their bookmarks.

Place this code in the area of your page where you want the link. Change the URL to your website URL and the description to your website name. Use a bookmark icon next to the link to help attract attention for those who are visually oriented.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
var txt = "BOOKMARK US!";
var url = "http://www.basictemplates.com";
var who = "BasicTemplates.com with External CSS";
var ver = navigator.appName;
var num = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
if ((ver == "Microsoft Internet Explorer")&&(num >= 4)) {
document.write('<A HREF="javascript:window.external.AddFavorite(url,who);" ');
document.write('onMouseOver=" window.status=');
document.write("txt; return true ");
document.write('"onMouseOut=" window.status=');
document.write("' '; return true ");
document.write('">'+ txt + '</a>');
}else{
txt += " (Ctrl+D)";
document.write(txt);
}
</script>

You can also edit the portion of the code that states "BOOKMARK US!" to whatever you wish.

Reference Article: "How to Create a Favicon"