In light of the recent news floating around the web that Internet Explorer's market share has reached an all-time low (
Techworld.com - Internet Explorer usage continues to fall), I thought I would share with you my own highs and lows as an SEO searching for the best browser set-up.
Up until the first release of the Google toolbar, I had always been a loyal Safari user. Safari's speed, built-in RSS reader, and it's pop-up blocker were all great selling points for me. But when the Google Toolbar was released, I was less than pleased to learn that they hadn't released a version for Safari users. I found my way around it, as I outlined in
Toolbars, Desktop Search and Mac Users, and was pleased with my setup until Google released the Toolbar for Firefox.
I downloaded and tried my hand with the Firefox browser. It was very fast, Open Source and incredibly customizeable with a myriad of add-ons, not just the Google Toolbar. But as an avid Apple user - some even refer to me as an Apple evangelist - it takes a lot more than just a Toolbar and some fancy buttons to pull me from my beloved Apple-made Safari. To me, it just wasn't enough and I switched back to Safari.
Then, a couple of months ago, I read about a new browser, Flock. It had features galore, and a library full of add-ons to customize the application. As an avid blogger, what caught my attention was the built-in blog editor, so I downloaded the application and gave it a whirl. I fell in love and wrote about it:
Amazing New Browser - Flock!Soon enough I did realize there were some problems with Flock, though, such as the fact that it was a RAM hog, and because it is still in beta, it crashed often. But I continued to use it for it's blogging features, Flickr integration, and the built-in newsreader.
Until yesterday. As I sifted through my RSS feeds, reading the latest in tech news, I saw a lot of people talking about the latest Firefox release. I read a lot of great reviews and decided to give Firefox another try. So I updated my older version of Firefox and sifted through the thousands upon thousands of add-ons and extensions for the program and finally found a setup that made my job as a blogger, an SEO and a business owner a lot easier. Here's how I have it set-up:
1. I installed the extension called Performancing for blogging. This blog editor is far more powerful than the
built-in blog tool for Flock and the Blogger button on the Google Toolbar. It also allows for the addition of technorati tags, saving posts as drafts or "notes". You can blog with multiple blogs and multiple blogging platforms. It supports technorati searching to find out who links to your blog right in your editor. You can also sign up for a Performancing Metrics account to track your blog statistics and view them within your editor as well. It has a del.ici.ous tab with which you can post bookmarks to your del.ici.ous account. This tool also saves your blogging history so you can go back, read and make reference to previous articles you posted with Performancing. This is absolutely invaluable to an SEO, as any good search marketer knows how fruitful blogging can be, especially with the addition of technorati tags and del.ici.ous bookmarks.
For more info on Performancing, see the
Firefox extension page or the
Performancing web site.
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