Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Have You Customized Your Google and Yahoo! Homepages for Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business?

It’s never good to rely on just one search engine. On June 7th I recommended that CLNC^® consultants keep both a customized Yahoo!^® and Google^® homepage in their browsers. In an even earlier blog, I explained how to customize your Google homepage for RSS feeds which will keep you in the know. This week I’ll tell you how to do the same for your Yahoo! homepage.

First of all, go to Yahoo.com – the page should look like this.

Now, click the My Yahoo! link in the top left corner of the page and you’ll see a page that looks similar to this.

Now click Yes, please! in the bar at the top of the page, fill in your information for location, interests and click Done when you’re done. You’ll be redirected to this page:

Yahoo! wants you to register and create a Yahoo! account. Go ahead, click Register in the top left to set up an account. When you get to the “Congratulations” screen either complete the registration information and set your privacy settings, or simply click Yahoo! in the top right to go back to the Yahoo! homepage and click My Yahoo! to get back your customized page.

Now you savvy CLNC^® consultants can click Themes to customize a theme, Options for article previewing and other options and then Content to start adding in your RSS feeds and other notifications from all your important legal nurse consulting news and alert sites. Each time click I’m done to save your changes until you’re satisfied with the way you’ve customized the page.

If you wish to go further, you can click Tips at the bottom of the page to find all sorts of useful tips on how to customize the page.

Here’s my favorite: Unlike iGoogle^® you’ll have to see if your web browser will automatically open links in new tabs. Not all browsers support it; some you have to open manually (usually Crtl-Click). If you get in the habit, it’s a good one. That way each time you click on a link in your search results it’ll open up in a new tab – keeping your original search results intact!

Be sure to write down your user name and password, tell Yahoo! to keep you signed in and set http://my.yahoo.com as your homepage in your browser before you close it and you’ll be set!

Keep on techin’,