Simple Online Shortcuts
May 13, 2007
We are all pretty familiar with shortcuts for our beloved Windows or Macs "“ but how savvy are you with online shortcuts? You've heard the saying every penny counts, well how about every second counts; and after all, time is money "“ so lets have a look at how we can knock off a few seconds from our daily surfing sessions.
FireFox, Internet Explorer & Opera Shortcuts
There are plenty of handy shortcuts for your browser of choice. Here is a fairly extensive list of such shortcuts. If you are after a snapshot, chekout the low-down that have worked well for me:
- Type the domain name into the address bar + ctr + ent - no need to type www. or .com "“ e.g. 'semconsultancy' + ctr + ent and you’re away
- ctr + j "“ opens downloader inspector
- ctr + t "“ opens a new tab
- ctr + tab (ctr + shift +tab) "“ toggle between browser tabs
- ctrl + l "“ jumps to address bar (F.F. and Opera only)
- / - find "“ same as ctr + f (F.F. and Opera only)
Integrate Del.icio.us and FireFox
I am a big fan of all things FireFox and all things Del.icio.us "“ and the recent integration of the two has made searching, browsing and editing of your bookmarks from FireFox rather simple. Here are a couple of useful keyboard shortcuts:
- ctr + d "“ allows quick-fire bookmarking
- ctr + b "“ giving easy access to your tags and bookmarks
Google Apps Shortcuts
If like me, you spend a fair amount of time with Google Apps such as GMAIL "“ be sure to checkout the Google keyboard shortcuts. You may also be interested in shortcuts for Google Reader "“ all of these need to be enabled within the settings.
Speed Up your Google Searching
You may wish to install Greasemonkey for FireFox, and add a script that sets some keyboard shortcuts for Google search. I spotted this over at the Google Operating System Blog.
This numbers the search results and allows for some neat shortcuts:
"¦you can also go to the next page of search results by tying n and go back to the previous page by typing p. To edit the query you have two options: either type e to select the query, so when you type something the query will be replaced, or type a to append something to the query"¦
Drop the Quotes for Phase Searching
Save an hour a year like Steve Rubel by avoiding the use of the shift button in phrase searching. Instead of "online shortcuts" try online-shortcuts.
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Hiya Joe,
You’re James’s mate aren’t you? He said yesterday he has a friend that works in SEO/SEM.
I’m a complete SEO geek, love it =) Hey are you based around London? If so you should come along to the next LondonSEO event, basically it’s just a load of SEOs meeting in a pub on a regular basis. It’s great fun, some really nice people in this industry. And I must admit I have learnt more on LondonSEO events than any of the big trade shows. The next bash is next Tuesday in a pub in Holburn, check out the site for details http://www.londonseo.org It’s totally free of course. We are also talking about starting and SEM trade association. There is currently one called SMA UK but nothing seem to happen with them so we are thinking of starting our own. Anyway will stop ranting. Would be great to meet you Joe.
Oh and by the way, nice blog. I don’t understand anyone using anything else than Firefox =) If you don’t already have it you need to check out the don of all firefox add ons, http://www.seoquake.com
Cheers,
Lisa
Hi Lisa,
Was good catching up with James - I work pretty close to Holborn and have meant to go to LondonSEO for a while, so next Tuesday sounds good to me. I will be in touch.
SMAUK seems to have been pretty static for a while, so some sort SEM trade agency run by SEO geeks sounds like a good idea to me!!
Hopefully see you Tuesday.
Joe
Dkny Wallets…
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you….