Internet Marketer’s Dream: 8 Productivity Tips for Firefox Browser Users

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Internet Marketer’s Dream: 8 Productivity Tips for Firefox Browser Users

Here are 8 productivity tips specifically for Mozilla Firefox users when the requirement is “simply a browser”.

1) SearchStatus. Set yourself up so that you’ll know everything you need to know about your sites and your competitors. It displays the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and complete ranking anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyzer, keyword and nofollow highlighting, backward and related links, other Alexa info and SEO tools. This tip alone could save your hours of “look up” time.

2) Alexa Sparky. Other immediate, in-depth competitor analysis can be had when you install Sparky. Sparky is a free FireFox browser plug-in built by Alexa, that accompanies you as you surf, providing useful information about the sites you visit without interrupting your Web browsing. Specifically:

- Learn about Website Traffic Trend information. Is this site getting more popular, or less popular?

- Get detailed traffic information including Reach and Rank. How does this site’s traffic compare to other sites on the Web?

- Surf more efficiently with Related Links for each page. If I like this site, are there others that I might want to visit?

Plus surfing your own sites with this plug-in activated helps improve your Alexa score!

3) Google Global Firefox Extension. Learn to view Google results by country. This plug-in tells you everything you need to know about your competition in other countries. Ever want to see what people in other countries are seeing for a particular search in Google? For example, let’s say you are based in the USA and you want to know what people in the Canada are searching for.

If you travel to another country, your default Google search page is usually that country’s top level domain (i.e. Google.it if in Italy ). The same tool can be used when traveling overseas to view Google results of your home country.

4) Browser Window Resizer. View the way your advertisers and clients see your site. You may have a massive flat panel monitor but what are you displaying in 1024×768 mode? First, check your web logs and analyze the majority of viewers’ video resolution. Chances are it’s 1024×768.

The Browser Window Resizer is also useful tool for testing different screen sizes. It accurately resizes your browser so you can view if the web page looks right in all of the standard resolution sizes. Window resizer supports the 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024 video modes.

As far as your advertisers are concerned, there are 2 important reasons:

- Your right column may not be properly displayed without the viewer scrolling the horizontal bar.

- If you advertise or publish banner ads “above the fold”, make sure it’s visible to the highest amount of readers.

5) FireFTP. Use it to upload files fast, free, anywhere. FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. Very handy if you are traveling and don’t have your local FTP software on your PC or laptop!

6) Pick up exactly where you left off. Simply open all your tabs from last session, automatically. You don’t even need a tool. It is a setting to have all your open web pages restored each time you restart Firefox.

Go to Tools, Options, Startup box. When Firefox starts, select “Show my windows and tabs from last time”.

7) ColorfulTabs. This is a simple but powerful tab management tool to organize your day using tasks, and overall, spark up your tabs. Simply choose a specific color for each tab, and then assign a task or project to each tab. Besides being rather pretty, the pastel tint options are actually easier on the eyes: something important for a pair of lookers who surf and write all day long.

Adsense Notifier. Do you need to visually see your wealth increasing at frequent intervals? If so, apply this plug-in to display your Adsense earnings on the Firefox statusbar. Of course, anyone watching over your shoulder can see your massive earnings too! Nonetheless, to see this “cash register” working might be all you need to stay focused at work.

Using these tips, I literally save several minutes each day many times over, which easily clocks up to be an hour, in which I can do other things.

10 Awesome Google Search Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Finances, Investing and Productivity Knowledge

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10 Awesome Google Search Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Finances, Investing and Productivity Knowledge

Google plays a big part in my life and my blogging  business. Apart from it’s Adsense  publisher program which provides the bulk of this blog’s  income, Google’s search engine provides the basis and background for a number of the topics that I write about. I am not alone with 70% of the world using Google Search for most of their search and online questions. However there are a lot of cool features around Google search that can specifically help you improve your knowledge and understanding of the finance and investing world. Rather than just type in the search words, use some of the following “super” search tips to make you more productive and perhaps even grow your bottom line. Best of all – these are all FREE.

1.  Use Google as a personal finance and investment dictionary. Not sure what a structured settlement is or what term life insurance is. Then use the “define:” operator to return definitions from various dictionaries (for example define: capital gains tax). So rather than return a whole bunch of sponsored search results, you actually see a straight definition.

2. Key economic Indicators – Want to know the unemployment rate in California, GDP of American vs China or population of Brazil (if investing in one of the Brazilian ETF’s) then just use google to get this data instantly. Type unemployment rate CA (13%) or GDP America (.6 Trillion) or GDP China (.33 Trillion). A cool site I found when researching this article was US Debt Clock, which shows all of the key US economic indicators (in real time) for America. Some big numbers.

3. Use the “site:” operator to limit searches to a particular site. I use this one all the time, and it’s particularly handy because many site’s built-in search tools don’t return the results you’re looking for or have a decent site feature. For example, even though I have a search feature at the bottom of this page, you could search content on my site specifically by using a search phrase like: Another Extension to Home Buyer Credit site:savingtoinvest.com

4. Google Finance . The reason that discount brokers like Zecco and TradeKing can offer ultra low stock trading rates less than five bucks is that they do not need to spend a ton of money on research offerings for their customers. That’s because savvy, cost efficient investors can find pretty much most of the public information and recent news articles on particular stock or investment at sites like Google Finance. Want to know the latest news and market data on Apple (AAPL). Go to Google Finance and search for Apple or the ticker AAPL. On the results page, you can click the link to see more data from Google Finance such as free options quotes viaMorningstar. You can use the Compare tab in Google Finance to track the performance of several different stocks or indexes at one time, or to give you a better idea of how different stocks are doing. Also, see all the blog posts on your favorite stocks in one place.

5. Use the google search box as a calculator. Google has a built-in calculator — try entering a calculation like 110 * (654/8 + 3). Yes, your computer also has a calculator, but if you spend most of your day inside a browser, typing your calculation into the browser’s search box is quicker than firing up your calculator application.

6. Get quick currency conversions for your currency trading or that overseas trip. Google can also do currency conversion, for example: 100 pounds in dollars.  If you would like to convert minor currencies, be sure to be specific about the country. So, if you want to find out how many nuevos soles your dollars might buy, you could try: 100 dollars in Peruvian nuevos soles.  You can also do unit conversions for pretty much any measure as well via google search. For example to figure out how many pounds 3 kilograms is equivalent to, type in the phrase 3 kg in pounds

7. Find the Best Prices at Froogle.com. Looking for a deal on that item you want. For example, I recently purchased a ASUS 1005PB Netbook (see my netbooks review) and to find the best price I did a froogle search. Aamzon had the best prices and after checking at various other shopping portals, turned out froogle was spot on. Google Shopping is another specialized
google search product worth checking out for some real-time bargains.

8. Flight Tracker.  To see flight status for arriving and departing flights, type in the name of the airline and the flight number into the search box.  Eg Type UA 893 and you will see recent flight times. This is a much more efficient way than going to the airlines websites and trying to find the flight status page. Also if you are on your mobile, google search is much, much faster than a flash enabled airline website. As a frequent flier this search has definitely saved me time (and money) over the last few years.

9. Build a blog and some passive income with Google Adsense. If you are interesting in blogging or putting up an informational website then Adsense is probably the easiest way to make some extra money on the side. You make money via people clicking on the Google hosted ads on your site. I found that visitors that come through Google search are the best for revenue opportunities because they are looking for something specific. It takes time and traffic though to build up a decent income but it is very much possible. In 2 years I went from about p/day to a personal daily best of 0 through the Adsense publisher program.

10. Find and Search for images. Looking for that particular image in a presentation or for invitations. As the old saying goes an image can tell a thousand words and Google Images allows you to search millions of images. Just make sure you pay attention to the copyright and attribution rules for the owner of the picture.

Bonus 11. Collaboration via Google Docs. This is one I have been using more and more. After reading the 4-hour work week, I decided to take some of the productivity advice and get a virtual assistant to help with managing some of this blogs administrative and SEO activities. However working across different countries was challenging and sending documents could
cause version control issues. This is where google docs came and I was able to create shared a documents and spreadsheets which I am able to share with multiple people all over the world. It is safe, feature rich and free. Another use is if you are doing a shared budget. With Google Docs you and your family can track and update income/expenses in one shared place.
Searching across the documents is also much easier!