Author: David Vignoni Credit: David Mignoni

Note: this tool is dead simple and easy to use. If you’re an experienced social media user, you probably know about this tool already. If you don’t, then here you go! If you already know about this tip, then please pass it on - to someone who could benefit from this knowledge - by E-Mail, bookmark, link or some other method. They’ll be very grateful and think you’re a genius. If you’re feeling generous, though, you could tell them where you heard about it. Thanks!

I have used this tip to write dozens of articles and blog posts. I’ve used it to hit Digg’s front page 15 times. I use it regularly on StumbleUpon, Reddit, and every other social media website that I’ve ever used. I’ve used it to help grow my subscription numbers to be much larger than they were when I started blogging. And so on.

Are you ready?

I’m sure that using this tip could help you become wealthy, famous, and respected.

Are you set?

And I’m giving to you absolutely free of charge.

Then…

Here it is…

This tip for copying hyperlinks (more commonly known as links) has saved me hours of effort and tedium.

You probably already know how this works, but it hasn’t been THAT long ago that I discovered this tip. Maybe you don’t know it yet. But you will!

It’s very simple (and it’s especially designed for Windows users; I’m sure Mac users have an easier way to do this:)

- Position your mouse pointer directly over the link that you want to copy. Make sure the mouse pointer is touching the link.

- Click on your right-mouse button (or left if you’ve remapped the buttons.) A menu full of options will appear on your screen.

- Click on the words Copy Shortcut that appear on the menu. (Note: this works in most Microsoft applications. In the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, however, I believe the term Copy Link Location appears instead. Therefore, you need to look for the word Copy followed by works like Shortcut, Link, or Hyperlink to use this command.)

- Now you can use your Windows Paste command to make this text appear anywhere, like a Word document, a blog entry, the Address bar of your Web browser, or just about anywhere you want the link to appear.

For those of us who are more visually inclined, here’s a picture:

Courtesy of http://broadcasting-brain.com

This tip is dead simple, but it saves me so much time, effort, and aggravation that I don’t think I could blog without it.

I expect that most of my readers already know about this tip. Regardless, please forward this tip to someone who would benefit from it. Thanks!


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