Linkify: the best bookmarklet you’re not using
If you blog, you should get the Linkify bookmarklet that Laurence Gonsalves wrote.
How does it work? It’s an easy 2 step process:
1. Drag the Linkify bookmarket to your personal toolbar.
2. Dang! There is no step 2! Sorry about that. I, um, got mixed up. There’s just one step.
Now how do you use it? Well, see the link I made to Laurence Gonsalves? To do that, I wrote the words “Laurence Gonsalves,” selected that text, and clicked the “Linkify” bookmarklet. Here’s what you see:
Up pops a frame on the right-hand side of your browser with search results from Google (this is powered via Google’s AJAX search). You mouse over the result links to see which one you want, and when you find the answer you want, click “create link”. The selected text will turn into a hyperlink.
It’s that easy. If you’ve noticed that I’ve had a few more links in my last few posts, it’s because Linkify reduces the annoyance of making a hyperlink.
Thanks to Laurence (who happens to be a Googler) for writing this handy tool. Hat tip to Ionut Alex. Chitu for mentioning this bookmarklet. And thanks to Danny Sullivan for jogging my memory that I wanted to write about this.
Disclaimer: This bookmarklet works great for me on Firefox 2. If it doesn’t work for you on your browser, sorry to show you a glimpse of joy that doesn’t work for you.
Steven Bradley Said,
March 30, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
Pretty cool Matt and works as advertised. Think there’s any chance Laurence could be persuaded to make work if you select any text on a page (instead of just from a comment field) or perhaps even from text selected in Performancing?
Even if not it still looks very useful.
Julian Said,
March 30, 2007 @ 12:44 pm
Yah, cool, that way you can create more links easily. Just one tip:
Be careful with the link text, as it should describe the page you are linking to as best as possible to make good keywords for it.
graywolf Said,
March 30, 2007 @ 1:15 pm
That’s why I always use Crest for whiter teeth and fresher breath
smeshnoj Said,
March 30, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
wow, i like that “toy” :p thanks!
J0nyd Said,
March 30, 2007 @ 1:22 pm
Wow, that’s great! Thanks for puttin it up there. Will go nicely in my nucleus blog, I finally got around to setting up fancy URLs to help it out a bit. Can’t wait to throw it up there.
Manish Pandey Said,
March 30, 2007 @ 2:09 pm
Yeah nice addon Matt! And very wonderfully advertised.
Manish Pandey
googlando Said,
March 30, 2007 @ 3:37 pm
Linkify è fantastico!
Matt Cutts Said,
March 30, 2007 @ 4:12 pm
Steven Bradley, strangely enough that was exactly the feature that I wanted the most too. If I see Laurence, I’ll mention it, but he might read the blog before I see him, so I’ll agree here as well.
Paul Kim Said,
March 30, 2007 @ 5:08 pm
Good stuff Matt — thanks for the tip and the shout out.
political forum Said,
March 30, 2007 @ 7:48 pm
I am thinking of using it.
But I don’t think I really need it.
David Said,
March 30, 2007 @ 10:30 pm
>> I am thinking of using it. But I don’t think I really need it.
It’s not a question of need. Simply put, if it saves you time and hassle (both!) then why *wouldn’t* you use it?
Matt Cutts Said,
March 31, 2007 @ 12:45 am
Manish Pandey, thanks.
Matt Cutts Said,
March 31, 2007 @ 12:50 am
Testing.
MATT Said,
April 3, 2007 @ 4:00 am
Great tools mate I have place two of them on http://car-news-reviews.blogspot.com/ if anyone wants to take a look
thanks
Matt Waterman
malaysia boleh Said,
April 11, 2007 @ 9:29 pm
nice tool..not sure i wanna use it. scared it wil slow my pc that is already suffering from old age haha
Mphie Said,
April 23, 2007 @ 2:06 am
Cool … is it like snap.com preview ??? Or much better ?
Thanks for da tip
MATT Said,
April 25, 2007 @ 5:07 am
How is this Tree Result done?
Type in “Broadspeed” in google
can you tell me how the site broadspeed has a tree under their results?
thanks
Matt
mara Said,
May 6, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
>>… is it like snap.com preview ??? Or much better ?
Sounds good, but if it has anything to do with Snap, I wouldn’t even try it cause I’ve had a bad experience with snap.
cloneman Said,
October 28, 2007 @ 1:38 pm
A nice tool. But i won’t use it.
There are too much tools and this fact makes me crasy.
It’s time to think over on “tools aggregator”