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One of the best ways to generate backlinks to your blog and to network with people is via leaving excellent comments.  Unfortunately no one should have to typle their name/email/website all the time.  The tool I use to speed up my commenting process is a firefox plugin called.  Auto Forms.  Auto Forms allows me to hit one button to fill in all the preliminary info.  I save tons of time on commenting with this one extension.

What are some of your time saving tools?

krantcents said:

I use Firefox, but I don't have the plugin.  I Just hit the first letter of my name, email and address and it fills in.  Unfortunately, I do not know how it started. 

Same for me. 

It's an expensive one but for me my Mac is a whole productivity tool in itself!  (Things like shift+command+4 for screen shots are just one of the things that help).

I'm also liking Chrome and many of its extensions such as Create Link which allows you to copy HTML links easily.  

Then you can put those links in Evernote, which I have a browser button for.

I also keep url folders for different links I use often, such as a Web Tools folder which has links to Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics.

Very good topic here! I think it's been mentioned a couple of times before, but I find that SEO Quake plugin saves me some time in looking up stats. 

Also, I use Outlook to manage my email, and have pre-made signatures with typical responses to advertisers or those emails we all get asking for a guest post. 

My Personal Finance Journey said:

Very good topic here! I think it's been mentioned a couple of times before, but I find that SEO Quake plugin saves me some time in looking up stats. 

Also, I use Outlook to manage my email, and have pre-made signatures with typical responses to advertisers or those emails we all get asking for a guest post. 

I was looking into SEO Quake.  I currently use ALL in one SEO.  But, I'm open to moving if SEO Quake is better

I use Google Docs and a couple of offline spreadsheets to keep track of stuff. I also use Gmail and the stars to help keep track of stuff I need to follow up on.

Thanks FT. I will have to give easycomment a try.

I can definitely back up Paul's feeling on Feedly.  It's great, and unlike many readers it has a great layout and is very easy to follow.  I also like to use Evernote (a lot) as it's a great tool for recording ideas and notes from anywhere and it keeps me from forgetting things as long as I remember to put them into the program.

As far as I know, SEO Quake and All in one SEO have pretty different uses/purposes.

All in One SEO is something you fill out for each post in Wordpress with keywords for meta tags, etc. SEO Quake is a toolbar for Chrome/Firefox that displays automatically the Alexa ranking, PR, Google links, and other data for each webpage you visit. 

Overall, I'd recommend both! 

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YourFinancesSimplified said:

My Personal Finance Journey said:

Very good topic here! I think it's been mentioned a couple of times before, but I find that SEO Quake plugin saves me some time in looking up stats. 

Also, I use Outlook to manage my email, and have pre-made signatures with typical responses to advertisers or those emails we all get asking for a guest post. 

I was looking into SEO Quake.  I currently use ALL in one SEO.  But, I'm open to moving if SEO Quake is better

Glen Craig – Free From Broke said:

I moved all of my email to Google Apps.  It can have all of my sites emails in one place, and I can respond, tag, have prepopulated everything, and it syncs with my iPhone.

 

I've considered Google Apps but haven't figured out the difference between that and the free apps I already get.

How does Apps organize the different site emails?  

 

Glen, The thing I like about Google is that it is all in one site or linked off of one site at the top: email, docs, etc. I also have all my email go through Gmail. So, I can check hank@….any of my sites all in the same place. You can also send email as any of those email addresses right from Gmail as well. In the Gmail "Settings", you can add accounts by clicking "Accounts and Import". Hope this helps. Having all the different email addresses under one program is a huge time saver.