E-Mail a Friend

If you want MORE traffic and visitors at your website you need to promote your site. You can submit your site to search engines or you can pay $ to get your site listed at the top search engines (if you can afford it) but that is not enough to build stable, consistant traffic. Promote your site using as many methods as you can.

It is said that "Word of Mouth" is the best type of advertising. Who better to promote your site than your satisfied viewers? Get them to promote your site for you by enabling them to email your webpages to their friends.

How do you do that? Put an E-MAIL A FRIEND form on your webpage. But don't most web browsers already have the capability to email the webpage being viewed? Yes, they do, but have you ever heard of the expression "Out of sight, out of mind"? If the viewer doesn't see it he does not think about it! Click the example below to see EMAIL A FRIEND in action.

Click Here for Example

Instructions

Important:

When entering text in any of the fields below, do NOT use these symbols: Single Quote ' or Double Quote " or else the code will not work.

Send Button Name:

This is the name that appears on the button used to email the webpage. Use the suggested name: Send or use a different name. Note: the more text used, the larger the button will be.

Email Subject:

This is the subject of the email message that gets sent. Use the suggested subject: Check out this web page I found... or enter your own subject.

Email Body:

Enter a short description (12 words or less) of your page.

Link Window:

Select one of these options:
self: Sends the page that this code is on.
top: Sends the page that is seen at the top of the browser window (title).
parent: Sends the parent page of a frameset. Only choose this if your site is using frames.

Track Link:
(optional) 

Use this feature if you want to be able to track how many times the webpage that is emailed gets viewed. When one of your viewers sends your webpage to a friend, the email will have a unique link in the body of the message. When the recipient clicks that link in the email, the server log at your Host will record that unique referring link. Note: to view log files your Host must support access to it's log files.

Generate Code:Press the Generate Code button to automatically create the E-Mail A Friend code to be used on your webpage.

Select All:Press the Select All button to highlight the generated code below. Copy this code (CTRL+C) and insert it onto your page using the HTML Object Tool. Paste the code (CTRL+V) into the HTML Object Properties window. Click the General Tab of the HTML Object Properties window and set the HTML Object dimensions:
width = 260 and height = 40.

Add a Text Box:Put a Text Box next to, above or below the HTML Object on your page. Tell your viewers to: Email This Page to a Friend and Enter friend's email address.

E-Mail A Friend Tool


Send Button Name:  
Email Subject:  
Email Body:  
Link Window:  
Track Link:  
 



Disclaimer: This tool is provided as a free service of coolpagehelp.com.
DO NOT send questions about your E-MAIL A FRIEND links or the use of this tool to Cool Page Customer Support. Cool Page Customer Support ONLY answers questions about the code that is generated by the Cool Page program. The code generated by this tool should work in all properly configured browsers.