Want to learn how tabbed browsing can make you more productive? For one, it can help you multitask and for two, it can help you remember to do things. When you get into internet marketing, you can suddenly find yourself spreading out so thin that you can lose track of what you need to do every day and what you need to keep tabs on. Here is a nice way that utilising tabs in Firefox or Internet Explorer can make your browser actually help you remember to do things.
Tracking Affiliate Marketing Progress
If you participate in several affiliate marketing programs, open them all one by one into a set of tabs. In Firefox, for instance, choose short cuts:
“Shift” + “Ctrl” + “D”.
Then when the pop-up window asks you to choose a name and a folder, you could set up a set of folders with an appropriate naming convention that help you. For example, you could set up something with your links for:
- Commission Junction
- Clickbank
- Linkshare
- PepperJam
- And whatever other affiliate program you work in.
Now, tomorrow when you decide you want to manually check your stats or get new links, instead of having to remember to manually check them all one at a time you can simply click on the appropriate folder in your bookmarks and tell your browser to open them all. In a nanosecond (or two) you’ll find a set of opened windows that take you exactly where you need to go. When you’re done you can simply close all tabs.
Blog Management
If you have several blogs and want to make sure you post every day, you can do the same thing. Open all your blog admin panels in a set of tabs and save them all. Then, when you’re ready to post in all your blogs or do maintenance such as add affiliate links or alter blogroll information, you can easily open every one of them all together.
Tips and tricks to help you maximise productivity are all around the net. Take advantage of them!
About Sean Rasmussen
Hi Sean,
I love tabbed browsing. There’s an excellent Firefox Addon for this that helps make life so much easier for Internet Marketers. It just allows me to have more pages open and to be able to quickly flick back and forth between them. It saves me lots of time.
What add on is that Jazz? I could probably do with it
Hi Gee,
I’m not sure exactly what it’s called off hand. It’s in a video series that Yang does in the beginner’s guide.
I am also a big convert to the way of tabbed browsing – it makes things so much quicker.
I definitely recommend Firefox over Internet Explorer though. I find that Internet Explorer is at risk of hitting speed humps which cause the entire program to stall. Firefox seems to be much better at dealing appropriately managing my PC’s resources.
Dang – itchy trigger finger hit me again. If I could, I would delete ‘managing’ and insert ‘with’ in my final sentence.
Shows the dangers of relying on a Microsoft product to check my grammar for me. Perhaps it is some sort of karma given I suggested an alternative to MS Internet Explorer
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Tabbed browsing has been a great productively piece to add into modern browsers. What I love even more is the little notice message if you accidentally try to close the main browser window while having several tabs open – that’s one that saves me time and time again
I don’t think I could operate now without tabbed browsing. I use a sessions manager to save different groups of tabs that I like to have open together when I’m carrying out different Web related tasks. When I’m running Firefox it just takes seconds to switch between the different sets of related Website.
Long Live Tabs!
Well, you live and learn – I’d not thought of doing that – though in the murky mists of my mind, I may have seen something suggested along those lines before and ignored it.
If nothing else it saves time manually opening multiple sites to work on when researching too.
So now I have to look into my Firefox and see how to do it all
I love my tabs and I can have 15-20 tabs at ony time. Ctrl-TAB is a great way to cycle through them as well.
I love the new coloured tabbed plugin for Firefox which makes it really easy to use them as well.