OK, so this isn’t directly related to affiliate marketing, but still a great hack. If you’re like me, you accidently close a tab at least once an hour in Firefox…

The next time you accidentally close a tab with an important webpage and you want it back, simply hit Command-Shift-T (for a Mac, or Shift+Ctrl+T for a PC) and the tab will magically reappear again! Now that you know it, try to live without it.

Digg - Best Firefox keyboard shorcut ever - Retrieve accidently closed tabs!

Sara Christensen’s Pajama Professional blog is a nice resource for web workers and at-home affiliate marketers. Here’s a post that particularly resonates with me, because I tend to have at least 20 or so Firefox tabs open at any time.

Favicons help your blog stand out. You’ll see the fortune cookie favicon for this site in your address bar above and in the tab (if you’re using Firefox or IE7).

If you’re interested in making your site standout while building some branding, you need a favicon as Sara suggests.  Here’s a nice “how to” from her blog…

I’ve noticed lately that when I have eight or ten tabs open in Firefox, the pages that have customized their logos really stand out. It’s struck me many times in the past, but lately it’s really been making an impact. Today, instead of just thinking “that’s so cool” and wondering “how’d they do that?” and moving on with something else, I decided to figure it out. So here are the steps involved in creating that cute little customized address bar icon for your website. And in case I’m not the only person on the earth who didn’t know this, that little logo is called a favicon (fav-eye-con):

Brand Your Site with a Favicon | Pajama Professional

More affiliate marketing FireFox goodness…

I mentioned SearchStatus in my post, ‘Customising Firefox for the Internet Marketer‘ back in January.

Well you may be interested in the new version of SearchStatus that was recently released. Version 1.19 includes some minor bug fixes as well as statistics from Compete.com. You can download the new version here

SearchStatus just got better | Keith’s Affiliate Marketing Blog

Although a majority (somewhere around 75%) of internet users still cling to Internet Explorer, Firefox is by far a superior browser for many chores and tasks, including those concerned with affiliate marketing.

Perhaps the most handy feature in Firefox is the ability to add plugins. There’s even a few which are helpful for affiliate marketers.

A few of these are a little old (by a few months) but are still helpful nonetheless…

1. Fraser’s Commission Junction Plugin

“Basically it sits in the the status bar at the bottom of your Firefox browser window and checks your Commission Junction balance every 30 minutes. It has no official association with CJ and although I don’t expect there to be problems I can’t take any responsibility if it doesn’t play nicely with your other extensions.”

2. IE in Firefox View

“This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox.”

3. SEO for Firefox

“Want to know why Google or Yahoo! ranks pages? If so this is the Firefox extension for you. SEO for Firefox pulls in many useful marketing data points to make it easy get a more holistic view of the competitive landscape of a market right from the search results.”

4. SearchStatus (thanks to Andy Beard for the tip)

“SearchStatus is a toolbar extension for Firefox and Mozilla that allows you to see how any and every website in the world is performing. Designed for the highly specialised needs of search engine marketers, this toolbar provides extensive search-related information about a site, all conveniently displayed in one discreet and compact toolbar.”

5. Firebug

“Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.”

What about you? Any other Firefox extensions or plugins that we missed which help you in your affiliate marketing endeavors?

For all of you affiliates using Firefox as a browser and SEO as an active strategy in your marketing efforts, there are a few good plugins to help you out.

One of those is SEOpen:

Current SEOpen features are all accessed through right-clicking an open area on a web page or by using the new toolbar; they include:

• Yahoo Backlinks
• Pages in Yahoo Index
• Google Backlinks
• Google Cache
• Pages in Google index
• Google Translate to English
• Google Related
• PageRank Check
• MSN Backlinks
• Pages in MSN Index
• Alexa Overview
• Alexa Traffic
• Alexa Related
• Alexa Backlinks
• “Mass Check” multiple sources at once
• Check DMOZ Inclusion
• Keyword Density
• Page Size Checker
• HTML Validator
• Server Header Viewer
• Wayback Machine
• Check robots.txt
• Whois Info

Planned for future versions:

• Yahoo & MSN Cache
• Spider Simulator and/or Text Browser view
• IP-based SEO tools
• Toolbar Option

Nothing like an easy tool to help you out in your browsing around on your own sites or competitor sites!