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Best Of Breed Firefox Collection For SEO, Bloggers & Internet Marketers

By Andy Beard | Published: June 11, 2009

Today Firefox / Mozilla launched the ability to create public collections that other people can subscribe to so I though it about time I publish a list of most of the plugins I currently use that are specific to what my readers are interested in. Some of them are fairly common, others a little geeky and for specific uses. These are however the plugins I use or have remained installed on Firefox for an extended period of time, and many might prove useful. Pick up the collection here:- Blogger SEO & Internet Marketing Tools

SEO Blogger & Internet Marketing Firefox Collection

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Some Fun With Zemanta

By Andy Beard | Published: March 28, 2008

Whilst writing the last post about a marketing book survey I was also testing out a new Firefox plugin that is currently in beta, Zemanta

What Does Zemanta Do Exactly?

It adds editing functions to various popular online blogging interfaces, Wordpress (both .org and .com), Blogger and Typepad. These are the type of functions you could probably add a plugin for if you are using Wordpress on your own hosting, but wouldn't be available for Blogger, Typepad and Wordpress.com users.

That makes it something worth taking a careful look at for niche marketers, even if you use WordPress for most of

Posted in blogging tips, web 2.0 | Also tagged blogger, Mozilla Firefox, typepad, wikipedia, wordpress, wordpress.com, Zemanta | Comments closed

GreaseMonkey & Firefox – How To Send a Trackback With Blogger (Part 2)

By Andy Beard | Published: June 5, 2007

Logging into Haloscan every time you want to send a trackback is time consuming, so if you use Firefox, and the Greasemonkey plugin, this might be your ideal answer.

Install Greasemonkey

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Robots-Nocontent | How To Spot Abuse By Sneaky Webmasters

By Andy Beard | Published: May 3, 2007

The moment I heard about the new Robots-Nocontent class that can be added to content, alarm bells started ringing in my ears. Whilst this can be used in a legitimate manner, it is also possible for webmasters to heavily abuse it.

Posted in Google, SEO Blog, news, web 2.0 | Also tagged css, Robots-Nocontent, yahoo | Comments closed

The Benefit of Screenshots in Communication | Iconize Your Clickthrough Rate

By Andy Beard | Published: April 1, 2007

Icons Increase Clickthrough Rate

I use quite a lot of screenshots when blogging as I find the old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” very appropriate.
Michel Fortin also pointed out in his top plugins and blogging tips article today how graphic icons with each post help with clickthrough. He has been using eye tracking software to prove it, and is a fanatical tester.

Posted in blogging tips | Also tagged blogging tips, communication, compatibility, icons, ie, internet_explorer, screenshots, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Compete Toolbar Bug With Google Reader – Compete vs Alexa vs Quantcast Stats

By Andy Beard | Published: February 19, 2007

I have had long term problems with the Compete Toolbar as I pointed out some time ago on my friend Paul’s blog, I think I actually made that comment on my first visit to his blog.

Posted in stats | Also tagged alexa, compete, google reader, quantcast, statistics, stats, toolbar | Comments closed