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If you use the Firefox and you certainly should, then you’ll love FoxTab.

Instead of clicking on tabs across the top of your screen to find the webpage you want you get a preview of each.

Easily accessible via on screen direction arrows or just hold Ctrl & Tab and the pages scroll right in front of your eyes until you find the one your looking for.

Take a look by hovering over FoxTab.

Download the FoxTab Addon

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So you show your site visitors related reference material without sending them off never to return.

Wow, is this cool.

They do a better job of explaining how it works than I can but as a summary:

• You write your post.

• You highlight words you want to link to

• Links appear to blogs, videos (here’s one of mine about creating EasyHyperLinks), documents, articles

• You select what you want

• An icon is placed next to the link

• Your post is multimedia rich

I’ve overloaded this post as an example

Here’s my personal blog at TheAntiHype

Just heads over to Apture and download the plugin (works on most blogs). It’s a page of php code. Upload to your blog in normal way. Activate and full instructions are provided.

I did have a slight delay as the theme  I’m using required me to insert a line of php code into the footer. Dead easy to do though – just follow the instructions.

Have fun.

Mark

P.S. Are any of you are WordPress experts? If so I’d love to hear from anybody who can explain to me why over the past few weeks, every so often some of my posts seem to be published multiple times. If I return to the admin area and log out they then seem to disappear. Spooky!

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I’ve been experimenting with Twitter although I openly admit to being a little sceptical since I personally take little notice of other people’s Twits – most seem to be promoting something or telling me they’re making a cup of coffee!

But today, Mark at Healthy Foods brought something to my attention that really caught my imagination.

This brand new plugin (like most WordPress addons it’s free) has really opened my eyes to how Twitter can be a real traffic generator. There is an upsell to be fair, which actually is really exciting, but I’ve not gone for it yet. My Homer tendencies had me reaching for the credit card but I’ve got too much else going on right now.

What’s unusual about this plugin is that is does several things. The main part being it should really increase the traffic to your sites due to the viral nature of what it does.

Firstly it automatically posts to Twitter immediately you post to your blog. One job saved.

Secondly, there is a widget that goes on your own blog that immediately shows your latest Twits. Visitors at your site are likely to look at your list of Twits and, if your worth following, will start to follow you.

Thirdly, there’s the upsell. If anyone decides to download the plugin and buy the upsell then you get a share of the commission.

So by simply using a plugin to potentially generate more traffic you could also make some commissions without doing any more promoting at all.

I’ve decided to try to enhance this traffic experiment a little further and you may like to give this a go too.

Anyone posting a comment on Guru-Fodder (at any time) or showing up in my Recent Visitors box will, as always, be visited by me.

What I’ll now do, however, is Twit those blogs / websites so they will get exposure to my followers and perhaps my followers, followers. In addition, the link to those blogs will also show up in My Twitter Feeds on this blog.

So, for a simple comment here you will get two links – one from Twitter and the other from this blog.

Will that lead to more traffic? I can’t answer that but I can tell you – there’ll be no traffic from here if you don’t give it a go since no one will know you’ve visited!

To join just click the link at the bottom of the My Twitter Feed list or take a look at Tweet My Blog.

Looking forward to your comments.

Mark

If you know little about Twitter you’ll find these other resources useful

Ultimate Twitter Resource and Promotional Guide – (Here are the links to my previous Twitter columns: Using Twitter to Increase Readers and Make Friends, Don’t Take Promotional Personal with Twitter, and The Twitter Effect). My series of Twitter entries created quite a bit of buzz, …

Digsby: Get Twitter Followers and Nintendo SP? – Now I have been on Twitter for a little more than 10 months, and I have currently a little over 260 followers. I started actually using Twitter in March, in only five months I have gained 250 followers. How did I do it? …

Relationship Marketing via Twitter – Social networking sites like Twitter have rapidly saturated the Internet landscape and are flourishing. Is your organization capitalizing on this phenomenon? Zappos is using Twitter to connect with job seekers. …

Using Twitter in your Social Media Strategy – For those that aren’t aware, Twitter is a social network that allows ‘friends’ to communicate with each other in brief 140 character bursts of text (known as tweets). You can send these tweets directly through the twitter website, …

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It will last until 15th May and there will be more and more gifts added over that time.

All you need to do to access the list of blogs and, of course, the gifts they are offering for signing up to their RSS feeds, is to follow this link to FeedaPALOOZA

My own “welcome gift” is Ultimate Easy HyperLinks – just subscribe using one of the links in the right sidebar and the download links to EasyHyperLinks, EasyhYperLinks Cloaker, How Do You Do, Squidoo (e-book) and the video tutorials will be found at the bottom of the RSS feed.

Let me know how you get on with the programs and your backlinks building and any further videos you’d like me to create.

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Where do these names come from?

Zemanata last week – FeedaPALOOZA this week!

Like Zemanta it gets a thumbs up from me.

It’s a free give-away Aaron Abber from FullTiltBlogging.com is putting together to help increase our RSS and/or email subscriber base.

It’s a simple concept:

• FeedaPALOOOZA tells all of their readers about your offer

• Readers from other blogs see your offer and if it’s enticing they sign up for your feed

• You offer a free gift to everyone who signs up for your blog via RSS or email

Job done!

You can get the full details here:

FullTilt Blogging

Aaron is expecting a very high subscriber base to be built from this – so I’m going to give it a try.

Take a look, you’ll kick yourself if I tell you I increased my subscribers by hunderds if you don’t give it go yourself!

By the way, Aaron is also giving every blogger who participates a free pass to his $97 Lead Blogging seminar in May.

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1. Some people watched the video here and couldn’t follow the link to the other videos.

This is what you need – Easy HyperLinks Tutorials

2. Suzie from Abundance Highway asked me about Flock so I’ll put together a video showing how great that browser is for Social Bookmarking and putting your most visited sites into easily accessible toolbar folders.

I hope to get this done for tomorrow.

Mark

I’ve also found the following posts about Squidoo Lenses and Squidoo Links that you’ll find useful

Squidoo Secrets Revealed: Drive Unstoppable Traffic To Your Home … - Use your lens like it’s your blog and link to your home business sites. This is such an easy yet powerful technique. Search engines love Squidoo and so links from a high-ranking lens to your home business site can really boost your … Affiliate Marketing – How To Get Into Page 1 Of Google Using Squidoo - What you can do is to visit other Squidoo lens that have content similar to your lens and write comments on them. Your comments should provide links back to your lens. You should also submit your lens to various social bookmarking sites … How to Use Squidoo to Build Your Page Rank - Well, in order to rank that phrase at the top of the search when someone types “housebreaking German shepherd puppies” into Google, I’ll create a Squidoo site (called lens) that has the same keyword phrase, and link it to my page using … Squidoo : Getting Links To Your Squidoo Pages - Squidoo : Getting Links To Your Squidoo Pages Ok, so now you have a lens with some content, and a YouTube module or two and some Ebay products (that don’t directly compete… SlashDashes submitted by SlashDashes.

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Where do these names come from? Zemanta? I have no idea but it looks like a cool idea.

This post is trying out the service from this new site. It’s a Firefox and Flock plugin that automatically finds links and images to spice up your blog posts.

Does it work? We’ll find out when I’ve finished this post I guess.

I won’t add any links (apart from the link to their site) so anything added is via the Zemanta service. The link I added is in bold – everything else is a link added automatically.

As I’ve been writing this, images and articles have suddenly appeared to the right of my text box (in WordPress admin). Now to be totally honest I don’t know what I’m supposed to do – or if images and links are added automatically.

Ah-ha. Various links, images from Wikipedia and articles (blog posts I guess) are suggested and you just click on the ones you want. Here goes, let’s add a few and see.

We’ll see when I publish – if nothing turns up I’ll come back in to edit and post another article explaining.

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I’ve seen half hearted – “add a comment and you’ll get a trackback” type of explanations but until this week nothing that comes anywhere near close to a proper explanation.

Now I have two. Randy at Marketing Beginners answered my request with an answer at the forum he runs. You can join for free and it is highly recommended. Randy is always available and is a great help with any technical issues. Then I was looking through some videos and found Jack Humphrey at the Friday Traffic Report had a video that is just brilliant.

If you are looking for an explanation about trackbacks – look no more:

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I’ve started to add Firefox Add-Ons and I’ve found most work just fine. These are my top 5 right now.

If you want to add them all you need to do is open up your Flock browser. Visit Firefox Addons and search for add-ons that you like or simply click on the links of my favourites below.

Although the Download buttons say add to Firefox they automatically install to Flock (exactly the same way as they do with Firefox).

I’ve tried the following which all work with Flock.

My top 5 add-ons for Flock:

Session Manager

Every lost a website URL because you closed your browser before saving?

Want to re-open several pages automatically each time you open your browser?

You need Session Manager.

I open up all of my social sites, Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr etc and save as a Session. Each time I wish to work with any of those sites it’s as simple as opening the saved session. Easy.

ShareThis

Adding this button to the browser toolbar enables sites to be easily Stumbled, Dugg etc. It works exactly the same as the ShareThis button on blogs.

PDF Download

Every accidentally opened a pdf report in your browser instead of saving it? You’ll know what a pain that can be when your machine gums up and refuses to do anything.

This Add-On resolves all of that. It warns you before you open a file and provides an option to Download or Open. This one is really useful.

FoxyTunes

Adds a toolbar at the bottom of the browser. Listen to your favourite music from a massive collection while you work.

If you use music video on your blogs easily find relevant tracks on YouTube to link to or embed.

SearchStatus

A must for internet marketers. The video explains it all.

Please let me know of any Add-ons you use and why I should get them.

The Anti Hype

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I wanted to test how easy it is to upload images to my WordPress blogs using the Drag & Drop facility and editing facility in Flock.

I’ve often had difficulties with images in WordPress but this works like a dream.

I’m a happy old Anti Hype right now!

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