Digital Marketing and Technological Insight

The other day I ran across one of the cooler FireFox extensions around, especially if you are into SEO and Social Media Optimization. The Social Media for FireFox extension is brought to us by the guys at 97th Floor, a SEO company based out of Utah. The tool, does a couple of really cool things. First you will see that in your FireFox browser status bar the 4 big players in social media / bookmarking - Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us ( see image below). The tool has two settings, manual and automatic. When you click manual on any given page you will see how many times that page has been bookmarked on those various sites, then you can click on any of them to bookmark it yourself…its like having a toolbar for all 4 wrapped into one. When you choose Automatic it will automatically check every URL you visit. Cool right? Well, we aren’t done yet. The other, feature is even more impressive. When you are on one of the four included social news sites, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us, you will see icons appear next to each story title with the submission information. For example, lets say you are on Digg, you will see how many times that article has been submitted on Reddit, StumbleUpon and del.icio.us. That means you can scan a site for a popular article and send it over to another site that hasn’t had it submitted yet. Right there your credibility on the other sites shoots through the roof. Awesome right? Download it now is all I have to say.

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