LAST EDITED ON Sep-15-10 AT 07:06 PM (PST)
 
 

(Free) Essential FireFox Automation Plugins
(From Think Links!)

Note: This post is important. I will be posting lists of places to get links. It will be up to you to automate as much of it as you can.

Essential FireFox Plugins

We are going to do some serious automation. Now's not the time to get lazy. A hour or so spent getting this ready will payoff 10x during your linking campaigns.

If you want to be lazy and still get things done, this is the start. I won't give you a longer "pep speach"...It's up to you.

To get some motivation, read my descriptions and you should see the value.

Firefox Browser
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html
- If you don't have it, download the Firefox browser here. You don't have to switch full time to FF. Just make this your "linking browser".

FREE Plugins - The following plugins are required to get the most out of Think Links. After you've installed FF, start it up, then come to this page using FF. Next, just follow the links and you'll be given a link to automatically install the plug ins. After installing them, you'll likely need to restart FF.

SEOQuake
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=seoquake&cat=all
- Offers a lot of SEO features. But for our purpose, we're just interested in one: PageRank. SEOQ will show you the PR of each link in the Google results.

If you are searching for .edu blogs, you can see the PR of each listing in the Google search results.

TIP: For our purposes, shut off every other function of SEOQ. This will speed things up greatly, as well as reduce your queries to Google. Note that using SEO Quake ofter requires multiple queries to Google. If you have Google return 100 results, SEOQ will need to contact Google for each of those results to get the PR.

If Google does "ban" you, it's only temporary. Try again in 24 hours. So use SEQ sparingly.

NoDoFollow
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5687
- When turned on, shows you which links are "follow" and which are "nofollow". Follow links are highlighted in blue and nofollow in red. As you research your linking resources, be sure to check that all of your links are what you think they are.

You can turn this off and on by "right click", then check/uncheck "NoDoFollow".

Selection Links
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8644
- If you click and drag your mouse over multiple links, this plugin will open each link in a different tab in your Firefox browser.

Here's how you'll use it...I may give you a list of links, or you may find a bunch of links in the Google results. Just click and drag, and each page will open in a new browser tab. Now that all these pages are loaded, you can quickly move from one site to the next.

AutoFill Forms
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4775
- This plugin will do a lot of the "typing" for us and is the most complicated of the plugins. Spend 30 minutes really getting to know it, it will be a real time (and finger) saver.

Here's an example of how powerful this is in combo with Selected Links. In parts of Think Links, I give you lists of links pointing to sites that use the same software. Even though these are totally different sites and on differnt IPs, you join them using pretty much the same info.

You click/drag over 10-15 of these links. Your Selection Links plugin will open each in a different tab.

Next, you fill in all the details on the first page and save this as a "profile" in AutoFILL Forms. (More detail below)

When you're done with the first tab, you click on the second tab and BAM! All the info is filled out for you automatically. Check to make sure everything is correct, make a minor mod and click on Tab 3 and BAM! Your info is filled out for you again.

Now I don't suggest you simply create profiles. Some of these resources have some very powerful features you will want use. However, the time saved is still the same. Once a profile for that type of site is filled out, and you visit the sign up page, your info will be filled out for you...More often than not, you will only have to hit "submit".

If AutoFILL Forms does miss something, type it in and copy it to your Spartan Multi Clip...Chances are, you will need to use it again somewhere.

AutoFILL Forms does take some time to get used to, but as you can see it is very powerful for our purposes, and will save far more time in the long run that it takes to learn.

Click Profiles=>Advanced deselect: Automatically select best matching profile