SEO for Firefox Toolbar
October 23rd, 2008Want to know why Google or Yahoo! ranks pages? If so this is the Firefox extension for you. SEO for Firefox pulls in many useful marketing data points to make it easy get a more holistic view of the competitive landscape of a market right from the search results.
SEO for Firefox was developed by Aaron Wall, author of the acclaimed SEO Book and a host of other helpful tools geared toward search engine optimization. SEO for Firefox is designed to allow the user to see Yahoo and Google ranking criteria about websites in their search implemented right into the search results page.
The information that is displayed can quite valuable to a webmaster looking to enter a target market or increase his search engine rank in a market he’s already in – all at a glance.
SEO for Firefox displays right into the Google or Yahoo search engine results:
- Page Rank
- Number of site pages indexed by Google
- Web page age.
- Inbound links to the domain
- These are further broken down into .edu, .gov, and links pointing to individual pages.
- Number of times the URL has been bookmarked on del.icio.us
- Alexa rank
- Technorati links
- Number of site pages listed in DMOZ
- Number of people subscribed to blog via Bloglines
- Whether site is listed in the Yahoo! Directory
Any web professional that uses Firefox (don’t we all?) will appreciate the simplicity and functionality of SEO for Firefox. It’s ease of use, relative lack of bugs, and the sheer value of the information that it produces at-a-glance makes this webmaster toolbar a “no-brainer.”
