Another FireFox Extension – SEO for FireFox
This is my most used tool when searching. First go to Aaron Walls site and download SEO for FireFox. Once downloaded install and restart FireFox.
On the bottom right hand corner of your browser there will now be a SEO logo – it is greyed out when off, toggle with the mouse and it will become coloured and on. Do not do all your searches with this on, if you have a fast internet connection Google will treat it like automatic queries after a while and ban your IP address from Google for somewhere between 30 minutes and four hours – therefore if you are using this on a server at work the whole system could be kicked out of Google search for a while.
The default for SEO for FireFox is off, therefore without editing the settings it will not work. Follow the instruction on Aaron’s page and or the tool itself.
Once setup, run a search query; you will now see below each result more information. There are only a few pieces of the huge amount of information that I want to know immediately about a website. The age is right at the start, this is important for getting links from and if I want to get in front of them in the search results, generally the older the site the harder it is to beat and the better it is to get a link from.
The first Yahoo! links number is the inbound links to the whole site and the second Yahoo! Number is the inbound links to that page. The .edu is the education links. Switch off FireFox before opening any of these to see the actual links. You have to open the Yahoo! Page to see the links as the figures given are the total number of links and it often falls dramatically when you open Yahoo! and see that many of the links are coming from the one website – good for Page Rank flow and indexing, but it makes little difference for search results.
The last item on this menu is the whois link. I use this when I cannot find contact details on the website; more often the whois details will have contact information. If there is no whois contact and no contact on the site then it is time to move on quickly.
By no means does this tool give an in-depth guide to the search results, but it can give a very quick feel for the area, and often helps to make my mind up quickly on whether to compete in the area.
Posted: May 30th, 2008 under SEO Tools.
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