Comments on: Here’s a Quick Way to Increase Your Site’s Stickiness

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:17:44 +0000

Betty – It could have been one of those computer gremlins. Looking forward to your update!

By: Betty Byrnes

Betty Byrnes — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:43:59 +0000

Tristan and Kathleen -

Thanks for your responses. Perhaps I will try it again… I thought it was very strange that my links changed! Perhaps it was a conflict with my theme or some other quirk in cyberspace.

I will let you know what happens.

Again, thank you both!

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:10:27 +0000

Tristan,

Thanks for stopping by – I appreciate your assistance. Betty, sounds like there might have been a glitch somewhere. Maybe a second try would be helpful…

If anyone else has experience using Apture on a Wordpress platform, please speak up!

By: Tristan

Tristan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:37:17 +0000

Kathleen and Betty,

Hi there. Apture will never change existing links on your website to point to other destinations. We do however enhance existing links to known destination sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, etc with a version that blooms in an Apture window in the page rather than sending readers away. The real power of Apture though is, as Kathleen said, in the ability to create *new* links that let you bundle as many media as you like (and to any type of media that you like) into one experience. Enhancement is only a convenience that you can customize on the settings area of your site on http://www.apture.com.

Hope this helps,

Best,

Tristan
CEO & Co-Founder Apture

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:41:50 +0000

That is strange. I’m going to try to get someone from Apture to address the issue.

Thanks for asking!

By: Betty Byrnes

Betty Byrnes — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:36:08 +0000

Yes, Kathleen, the links that existed on my site prior to installing the Apture plugin were changed. Actually, I never did get to the point of adding any with Apture. I simply deactivated it.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:25:56 +0000

Betty,

I don’t have an answer to your question, but I’ll see what I can do to get an answer for you.

Are you saying that links on your blog that were added before you added the Apture widget (or links you created afterward, but didn’t add with Apture) were changed?

I haven’t noticed any links changing on the site I added to an Apture account, but I haven’t added the widget here.

By: Betty Byrnes

Betty Byrnes — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:13:45 +0000

Kathleen,

I appreciate your review of Apture.

I tried it for a very short time on my blog which happens to also use the same theme as you use. The reason I deactivated it is that I found my old links became Apture specified links. For example, if I had a link to a specific site such as “Howard County Sheriff’s Department”, Apture replaced that connection to a link it chose – not the site I wanted.

I didn’t play around with it much and I don’t know whether it was a theme conflict or something I did or didn’t do.

Do you have any insight into this issue?

Feedback from you or any of your readers would be appreciated.

Thank you!