Give your favorite site a wink.
Connect with friends, share your favorite sites, and meet people with similar interests.
You will meet others like you, create new friendships, and find interesting sites you never knew existed.
For web designers and others who wish to promote thier site(s): SiteWinks can be the vehicle to generate additional web traffic and interest in your site. As web designers ourselves, we know the value of a good quality outlet to promote your site. They are often hard to find and often mix websites together with other miscellaneous content such as videos, news, pictures, and loads of other information further reducing the emphasis of the sites themselves. Many site promotion or traffic generating options cost money and don't deliver. Submitting your site to search engines is obviously a must, but can take weeks or even months to be crawled. Afterward, your site will be burried between thousands of other results.
When someone executes a search on a site such as Google, there is no incentive for them to click or visit your website when there may be hundreds or even thousands of other choices. Once your site is submitted to SiteWinks, users have the option to discuss, comment on, and "Wink" at your site, giving users an incentive to visit your site. All of this information is made prominent and accessible to our visitors. As your site Winks continue to grow, your site will become more visible and more relevant, generating more traffic for your website. Submit your site today and watch your traffic grow!
What is SiteWinks?
SiteWinks is a community or social bookmarking site for people to discover and share their favorite sites from anywhere on the web. No longer are we at the mercey of the huge, and often frustrating search engines to find great sites. There is no need to rely on their complicated ranking sytems to find quality, relevant websites. SiteWinks puts the power in the hands of those who know the sites best, the user. From the largest online destination to your very own personal site about knitting, SiteWinks surfaces the best websites as voted on by our community. SiteWinks provides a forum for you to meet others in our community who share similar interests and together, we will share the coolest websites with the world.
Our goal is to help others find and share great websites and we do this by narrowing the focus to websites only.
Find or own a cool website you want to share with the world? You’ve come to the right place. Simply click or browse to the Wink at a Site page to submit this great website to SiteWinks. Once submitted, this site will immediately appear on our site under Upcoming Sites allowing other members to find it, and Wink at it if they like it.
2. Popular Winked Sites
Once a site has earned enough Winks, the site will become popular and will automatically jump to the SiteWinks homepage. Popular websites will then surface to the top, becoming more visible to our members and visitors.
3. RSS
There are RSS feeds available all over our site. This will allow you to subscribe to the content you’re interested in. For instance, if you’re interested in keeping up-to-date with the latest “Kid Friendly” websites, then you can subscribe to this RSS and as new websites are added to this category, you will know right away.
4. Wink
By Winking at the sites you like, you will effectively contribute to the popularity of any given site and help our members and visitors to determine a website’s relevance to a particular category. Unlike a normal Google search, which offers you thousands of choices with not much else to go on, it’s our intent to provide users with a sense of how relevant or interesting a website is. Winking, commenting, and sharing websites are your tools to contribute to this effort. You will also build a history of sites you’ve Winked in your profile that your friends can view.
5. Sink
Sinking a site is a mechanism to help ensure that only the most relevant and popular websites end up on the front page. Sinking a site essentially counts as a negative vote against the site. Sinks do not carry as much weight as Winks, but as the number of sinks for a site increase, the site will make it's way to the bottom of the pages, becoming less relevant. This is also one of our mechanisms to control spam. If you find websites that have dead links, off-topic content, or duplicate entries click “Sink”.
Participation on this site is the key to this system, so Wink and Sink away!
6. Community
At SiteWinks you can build a network of friends. Easily invite friends or find them on SiteWinks and add them to your friends list. This list will also be displayed at the right-hand sidebar allowing you to see who is online and send private messages to any of them. You can track the upcoming and popular sites your friends have Winked at and they can see what you’ve been Winking at as well.
Email. Send your friends, family, or co-workers the sites that you Wink. They don’t have to be a member of SiteWinks. You can send a cool website to anyone!
7. Discussion
Because SiteWinks' goal is to facilitate the sharing and discovery of awesome websites, we provide a means to comment and discuss these sites. Voice your opinions, your experiences, and reviews of these sites and let others know what you think. We encourage this as this activity provides additional insight into the value of a website. Our aim is to provide a community of sharing, making it easy to find today's best and most interesting websites. Start contributing today! It's fun and absolutely free!
Our goal is to help others find and share great websites and we do this by narrowing the focus to websites only.
How it works
1. Discover/Submitting New SitesFind or own a cool website you want to share with the world? You’ve come to the right place. Simply click or browse to the Wink at a Site page to submit this great website to SiteWinks. Once submitted, this site will immediately appear on our site under Upcoming Sites allowing other members to find it, and Wink at it if they like it.
2. Popular Winked Sites
Once a site has earned enough Winks, the site will become popular and will automatically jump to the SiteWinks homepage. Popular websites will then surface to the top, becoming more visible to our members and visitors.
3. RSS
There are RSS feeds available all over our site. This will allow you to subscribe to the content you’re interested in. For instance, if you’re interested in keeping up-to-date with the latest “Kid Friendly” websites, then you can subscribe to this RSS and as new websites are added to this category, you will know right away.
4. Wink
By Winking at the sites you like, you will effectively contribute to the popularity of any given site and help our members and visitors to determine a website’s relevance to a particular category. Unlike a normal Google search, which offers you thousands of choices with not much else to go on, it’s our intent to provide users with a sense of how relevant or interesting a website is. Winking, commenting, and sharing websites are your tools to contribute to this effort. You will also build a history of sites you’ve Winked in your profile that your friends can view.
5. Sink
Sinking a site is a mechanism to help ensure that only the most relevant and popular websites end up on the front page. Sinking a site essentially counts as a negative vote against the site. Sinks do not carry as much weight as Winks, but as the number of sinks for a site increase, the site will make it's way to the bottom of the pages, becoming less relevant. This is also one of our mechanisms to control spam. If you find websites that have dead links, off-topic content, or duplicate entries click “Sink”.
Participation on this site is the key to this system, so Wink and Sink away!
6. Community
At SiteWinks you can build a network of friends. Easily invite friends or find them on SiteWinks and add them to your friends list. This list will also be displayed at the right-hand sidebar allowing you to see who is online and send private messages to any of them. You can track the upcoming and popular sites your friends have Winked at and they can see what you’ve been Winking at as well.
Email. Send your friends, family, or co-workers the sites that you Wink. They don’t have to be a member of SiteWinks. You can send a cool website to anyone!
7. Discussion
Because SiteWinks' goal is to facilitate the sharing and discovery of awesome websites, we provide a means to comment and discuss these sites. Voice your opinions, your experiences, and reviews of these sites and let others know what you think. We encourage this as this activity provides additional insight into the value of a website. Our aim is to provide a community of sharing, making it easy to find today's best and most interesting websites. Start contributing today! It's fun and absolutely free!
Benefits
Well, for one, SiteWinks makes it easy to identify quality websites that you are interested in. As sites generate more Winks, it becomes more prominent on our website. It also gives our visitors and contributors an idea of how relevant a website is to a particular category. By focusing solely on websites, SiteWinks will build a high quality, content rich resource that puts a spotlight on great websites and provides a place for them to shine.You will meet others like you, create new friendships, and find interesting sites you never knew existed.
For web designers and others who wish to promote thier site(s): SiteWinks can be the vehicle to generate additional web traffic and interest in your site. As web designers ourselves, we know the value of a good quality outlet to promote your site. They are often hard to find and often mix websites together with other miscellaneous content such as videos, news, pictures, and loads of other information further reducing the emphasis of the sites themselves. Many site promotion or traffic generating options cost money and don't deliver. Submitting your site to search engines is obviously a must, but can take weeks or even months to be crawled. Afterward, your site will be burried between thousands of other results.
When someone executes a search on a site such as Google, there is no incentive for them to click or visit your website when there may be hundreds or even thousands of other choices. Once your site is submitted to SiteWinks, users have the option to discuss, comment on, and "Wink" at your site, giving users an incentive to visit your site. All of this information is made prominent and accessible to our visitors. As your site Winks continue to grow, your site will become more visible and more relevant, generating more traffic for your website. Submit your site today and watch your traffic grow!
SiteWinks is a place to share and discuss your favorite sites.
