Surf Smarter with These Buttons

By on February 20, 2007 in Blog Coach, Cool Tools with 8 Comments

A good portion of my work is coaching companies on how to listen to the blogosphere, paying attention to what’s being said and how users are sharing information that is important to the company.

There are three buttons I use often when visiting a company site or a blog that mentions the company I’m working with:

  • Google Blog Search This
  • Technorati This
  • del.icio.us History

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As an example, let’s look at KitchenAid (random choice)

There is another button I use when we find a blogger talking about a company:

  • Technorati Blog Info

Bloginfo

When we find a blog post about a company, this button gives us a bit more insight into the frequency and popularity of the blogger writing the post.

I have these buttons on both my Explorer 6.0 and Firefox browsers. The links below are the scripts that create the buttons mentioned here.

For Firefox users, simply click and drag the link into your Bookmarks toolbar.
For IE 6.0 users, right click and Add to Favorites in the LINKS folder.

Google Blog Search This
Technorati This
del.icio.us History
Technorati Blog Info

Here’s to smarter surfing. Remember to Search Once and Subscribe.

UPDATE 02/06/08: On occasion, I lose the bookmarklets in my Firefox. Because of this post, I regain the ‘Surf Smarter’ buttons. To make things complete, I’m also adding a link to the other delicious bookmerklets I use for easy reference:

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  • http://healthywebdesign.com Dawud Miracle

    Nice. Thanks for the code. I’ve been doing this manually. Thought about writing javascript for it, but haven’t made it a priority. Thanks fro not making me have too.

  • http://www.kylescove.com Kyle Eslick

    Mike,
    This is VERY helpful. Thanks for the info!

  • http://www.growthcapitalism.com Hannah Steen

    Thanks for the buttons, Mike :>)

  • http://andybeard.eu/ Andy Beard

    This isn’t as blog specific but highly useful
    http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html
    Amazing you are not in dmoz, I am sure there must be a bloggers in Iowa section.

  • http://www.converstations.com Mike Sansone

    Glad this helped – but look at the “generous genius!”
    Andy – I love the SEO tool and how you can toggle on/off. Good stuff. I’ll check out the DMOZ item, kind of a surprise there (but my own fault for not submitting it)

  • http://andybeard.eu/ Andy Beard

    It gets really smart when you are looking at Google search results, but you need large fonts or a big screen.
    If you click the question marks it actually pulls in the data from the site without you visiting it.

  • http://www.businesseducators.com/ customized executive program

    Wow, thanks for that. I had no idea what it all meant and what was the difference between the buttons.

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