Installing a Twitter Bar 1

TwitterBar is a Firefox add on which makes Tweeting or posting on Twitter a quick and easy process.

TwitterBar is a small icon which sits in the upper right hand corner of your browser’s address bar, where you type your URL. Hover over the little grey dot and you’ll see how many characters you have left in your post. (Twitter allows 140 characters per post)

To get TwitterBar installed on your browser, you will first need to be a Firefox user.

Firefox is a free web browser like Internet Explorer by Mozilla.

To grab and install TwitterBar visit:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4664

Go ahead and click on the green Add to Firefox button in the middle of the screen. If you do not presently use Firefox then you’ll first want to go to:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ and download it for free.

Again, simply click on the green button in the middle of the page and follow the installation instructions.

Now more than ever, it is critical to keep track of your cash.

Here are some useful web sites that will help you with many aspects of financial management.

Retirement:

BenefitsCheckUp.org

AARP.org.

Saving money:

ChooseToSave.org

Interest rates:

Bankrate.com

CardRatings.com

Mutual funds:

FundAlarm.com

Morningstar.com

Real estate:

Realtor.com

Zillow.com

Paying for college:

FinAid.org or

www.collegesavings.org

Financial planning:

fplanet.org

Smartaboutmoney.or

Youngmoney.com.

Research using the top links.

In addition to all the great inside information you will get on each site, you can also do keyword research, check out the Adwords sandbox, look at the traffic estimator, and trends. This is particularly useful when you are researching niches in order to determine if it is an online market you want to get into.

Just run a Google search, again, Rock Climbing as an example, and then look at the search box and the top of the page. Click on any and all of the links there, and start your research.

Customizing the SEO for Firefox Tool

SEO for Firefox also offers a bit of customization.

You can choose:

*  Auto - which automatically pulls in all the data points whenever you search with Google or Yahoo

*  On-Demand - which shows you the available data categories but not the results unless you click on them.

and

*  Hidden - which enables you to hide data you do not fine useful. For example, if the Whois information is irrelevant to you, then you can hide that date when you search.

To change your settings, they’re automatically set for On-Demand, simply visit the Tools menu on your Firefox toolbar.

Click on it and in the drop down menu choose SEO for Firefox Options. You’ll then see another drop down menu where you can choose your settings.

SEO Firefox is a great advantage for internet marketers looking to stay ahead of their competition. Start using it today. Analyze your own site, and that of the competition, and see if you can boost your page rank.

Once the tool is installed, search Rock climbing, for example.

If SEO for Firefox is working, you’ll see a menu of information under each search result.  The information will contain:

- Page Rank

- Google Cache Date

- Age

- del.icio.us

- Links

- .edu Links

- .gov Links

- Page Links

- .edu Page Links

- Technorati

- Alexa

- Compete.com Rank

- Compete.com Uniques

- Trends

- Cached

- Dmoz

- Bloglines

- dir.yahoo.com

- Botw

- Whois

Now what if you’re not doing competitive research?  What if you’re just browsing online?  You can turn off SEO Firefox and that very long list of data points is gone.

How can you turn it off?  At the bottom of your browser page, in the far right hand corner you’ll see the SEO Firefox button.  To turn it on click it and it’ll show up in full color.  To turn it off, click it and it’ll turn black and white.

Install SEO Tool for Firefox 1

SEO for Firefox is a Firefox extension developed and provided by SEOBook.com.  It provides useful marketing data which makes it easy to see what your competition is up to.

This of course is a great tool for developing SEO strategy and tactics to improve your page ranking with both Google and Yahoo search engines.

First things first, if you’re not using Firefox as your browser, download it and install.  Once you’ve accomplished that the next step is to visit http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html and follow the directions to install.  You’ll have to be using Firefox to install SEO for Firefox correctly.

Most likely Firefox will ask you if you want to allow the installation by dropping down a little bar at the top of the page.

Click Allow and continue.

A menu will pop up in the middle of the page. Click Install Now.

Next, it will ask you to restart Firefox, or in some cases, to restart your machine.  Go ahead and do that.

Once Firefox restarts, go ahead and conduct a Google or Yahoo search on anything that pops into your mind.