8 Must Have Firefox Plugins for Squidoo Lensbuilding
Okay, there are 8 plugins that you absolutely can not live without if you want to create Squidoo lenses and manage them effectively. I find myself using all of these quite often for various tasks.
Squidoo Lens Editing
Greasemonkey - This lets you add little mini scripts to your browser (don’t worry you have to push one button and that’s it). In a less frightening description, it makes web pages look and work cooler. As a corollary, you must download The Fluffanutta’s script that soups up your Squidoo Dashboard and Workshop. (It only works for FF right now, IE support is supposedly on the way..)
Scribefire - I’ve written about Scribefire before and what I said then still holds true. I use it all the time when flipping between tabs in FireFox and I want to keep data or content in one place.
Squidoo Plugin - The official plugin released by HQ. It allows you to add your current page as a link on any one of your lenses, placing it in either a link list or a link plexo. This is incredibly useful if you remember you have it available..
SEO / Analysis -
SEO For FireFox - Awesome plugin by Aaron Wall at SEO Book. Shows backlinks and other relevent data on top of your search results as well as lets you easily see which links are no-followed on the page.
SEO RankChecker - Part two of SEO Book’s must have plugins is the SEO Rank Checker. Use it to monitor your search engine rankings for specific terms on all three search engines by domain and by keyword. Awesome Tool.
Compete.com Toolbar (aff.)- Shows you estimated people counts and site rankings for whatever site you are on, also adds more cool information to your search results. This is a good one to check out if sites you are looking to submit links or content too actually get any traffic.
Bookmarking / Networking -
StumbleUpon Toolbar - I use this a lot for doing market research with StumbleUpon as well as for reviewing and tagging sites (and lenses). Don’t go ‘thumbing’ all of your lenses at once, but when used judiciously it can pack a punch. Oh yea, and it’s a great fix for when you are feeling burnt out.
I usually have another toolbar of whatever social bookmarking site I’m hot on at the moment, but the only one I’ve consistently used over the last year is StumbleUpon.
I would also advise getting a Google/Yahoo/MSN toolbar just for easy searching and bookmark management as well.
This isn’t a comprehensive count of all the plugins I use, but these are the ones I use most often. Try a few of them out and see if they improve your performance or researching for Squidoo.
Got a plugin I’ve clearly missed? Let me know!
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I really like Foxmarks. It automatically updates my bookmarks and keeps them synchronized on my desktop and laptop.
Nice list. I also use the SeoQuake toolbar occasionally, but you gotta be careful with it. Google put me in a timeout for too many PageRank queries…
Thanks, I still prefer IE for a lot of things, but these tools should make it worth using Firefox more.
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I like Cookie Swap too. It makes it easier to toggle back and forth between Gmail accounts without having to close one account to open another.
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There’s also the Squidoo Dashboard Extension, though it can struggle if you have hundreds of lenses…