Snooth / Zemanta Integration

posted by philip in Snooth

Something for the bloggers out there - Zemanta is a neat service that helps bloggers add relevant links to their content, and I’m pleased to announce that Snooth is one of their official content partners.

Lets say I want to blog about a wine I had recently. The Ponzi Vineyards Pinot Noir 2006 from Willamette Valley, Oregon, is a good example. Zemanta is a blog plug in that reads the content that I’m writing and then gives me the option to link to key phrases (Ponzi Vineyards, Willamette Valley, Pinot Noir etc). You can choose to add links to Snooth, Wikipedia, or other sites - see the image below.

OK, so in this case I decided to link the winery name, grape name and region name. Just three quick clicks and Zemanta did all the work.

The tool also helps suggest related articles as well as shows you a library of images you can access - this pulls data from multiple sources, but includes bottle images from the 300,000 we have on Snooth (see image below).

Zemanta is another service that leverages Snooth’s API, and part of how we extend the reach of our data. This is an important note, as wineries, retailers and others spend their time adding and curating content on Snooth. In return for that time, we do our best to insure that in addition to the 500,ooo users who get to see it directly on Snooth, there’s a wider network of 10 million people who get access to the work.

I know a lot of bloggers that use Zemanta, and many wine bloggers have asked us and Zemanta to integrate Snooth. I’m glad we were able to get this launched so quickly. As always, we’re looking forward to your feedback.