SEO for Firefox Toolbar

October 23rd, 2008

Want 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.”

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Zwinky Toolbar

October 23rd, 2008

Zwinkies are customizable avatars that represent the user in social networking mediums such as MySpace and are able to be imbedded in instant messaging clients. Zwinkies typically appeal to younger internet users but there is an abundance of adults that have fun with the Zwinky software as well.

The Zwinky toolbar enables the user to quickly make their own Zwinky to any likeness they see fit with many choices of clothing, backgrounds, and physical features. The Zwinky is then able to be input for use in a number of mediums, most popularly representing the user. Zwinky users can elect for their Zwinky to take on the appearance of “male hottie,” “female hottie,” “male cutie,” or “female cutie.” The male and female “hottie” characters most resemble actual human characteristics while the “cutie” figures have enlarged heads and features and look more like children.

The Zwinky toolbar utilizes the mywebsearch search engine at the far left side. Toolbar users can access all of mywebsearch’s features from a drop down menu adjacent to the search window that include toolbar and button personalization, spyware and popup settings, and enable/disable features.

Next to the search feature is the Zwinky tool that allows users to connect to the Zwinky community, personalize their own Zwinkies and input their Zwinkies into associated programs.

The Zwinky toolbar also comes with Smiley Central, software that gives its users access to thousands of exclusive smileys that can also be entered into chat software, instant messaging applications, and social networking sites.

As if that wasn’t enough fun and customization, the Zwinky toolbar gives its users free screensavers and software to allow its users to make their own animated screensavers using their own photos.

Finally, the Zwinky toolbar features Curser Mania, which makes changing Window’s cursers a breeze. Users can choose from hundreds of different fun, animated cursers that change from the default settings at the click of a mouse.

The Zwinky toolbar is made mostly for the younger generation of web surfers and allows them to share their personalized caricatures with each other in a myriad of different ways. The toolbar is available for both Internet Explorer and Firefox and doesn’t come bundled with any spyware, adware, or malware. Downloading the Zwinky toolbar is easy and is automatically setup after a quick browser restart for both Firefox and Internet Explorer. The Zwinky toolbar is recommended for anyone that regularly uses Zwinkies for its ease of use and flexibility with multiple browsers.

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Smiley Central Toolbar

October 23rd, 2008

The SmileyCentral toolbar is a unique way to bring some fun to your Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers that enables you to quickly pick between thousands of animated smileys and other characters that you can drop into your MySpace and IM chats.

The Smiley Central toolbar features the SmileyCentral button that pulls down, showing you all the hottest smileys that can be found nowhere else on the web. Some are animated and some even talk but all of them are fun and are full of personality. Since leaving cheerful, personalized comments on MySpace is the hot means of communication now, the SmileyCentral toolbar allows the user to do that without having to copy-and-paste or use complicated HTML codes. You just select the Smiley you want and drop it in. Additionally, SmileyCentral users are no longer stuff with the boring, ugly smileys that come with their favorite IM applications like AIM and Yahoo. SmileyCentral’s Smileys work with them all and can be dropped right into the text bar.

The Smiley Central toolbar also features a mywebsearch tool bar that puts a powerful search engine right into your browser. A drop down reveals a peek into the robust mywebsearch community’s features including chat rooms, news, stocks, sports, and more. Additionally, this dropdown houses the options to change the layout of the SmileyCentral toolbar, change the button locations, and even personalize the buttons.

Another one of the best features of the SmileyCentral toolbar is the ability to choose between hundreds of screensavers for your computer that you can browse through with just a click. The SmileyCentral toolbar even gives the user the ability to create and edit their very own screensavers using their own custom pictures.

What may be the most fun option is the ability to change your computer’s curser to one of literally thousands of different items with Curser Mania. The SmileyCentral toolbar showcases Curser Mania right on the toolbar as a default setting. When clicked, it shows you the hottest cursers around that no one else on the net have, hands down. All it takes to change your curser is a simple click. No more messing with your computer’s settings!

The SmileyCentral toolbar doesn’t install any spyware or adware on its users’ computers and fully backs its products up in its terms and agreements. The Smileys and other objects do not contain questionable content so they are 100% safe for children and guarantee hours of fun.

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