2012年1月30日 星期一

Top 3 Firefox Add-ons for SEO Campaigns


The Mozilla Firefox has been one of the most widely used internet browser in the world competing with some of the most popular such as Internet Explorer and Safari. Though it was once as dormant as a sleeping dragon, Mozilla Firefox became the most popular web browser mainly because of its wide uses.



Mozilla Firefox does lack many features found in other browsers, but in an effort to combat interface bloat, developers made it to allow the browser to be shipped as a small, pared-down core which makes it customizable to meet individual users' needs or interest.



The developers thought that instead of providing all features in the standard distribution; why not rely on the extension system to allow users to modify the browser according to their own preferences. This innovation made way to extensions and other add-ons that made Mozilla as an important tool for web development and Internet Marketing.



SEO is one of the m any that benefited on this. Today, there are a lot of extensions and add-ons for Mozilla Firefox that is made specifically for the purpose of SEO and internet marketing.



Though there are many of them out there, there are only a selected few that made it into the essentials, which means the ones that really proved to be useful in an SEO or internet marketing campaign.



Here are the 3 Mozilla Firefox add-ons or extensions that have helped us in our SEO campaign:



#1 SEO for Firefox



A successful SEO tool coming from the famous SEOBook is SEO for Firefox. SEO for Firefox is a Mozilla Firefox extension used for gathering specific data about a site. These data are then used by webmasters to keep track if their sites are still on top shape, or retrieve information about their competitors. SEOBook has once again created a masterpiece.



According to their site, there are now over 130,000 webmasters who use SEO for Firefox for their SEO campaigns. This is because of the design of SEO for Firefox to grab every, single, information that can be found on a website. In addition to pulling in useful marketing data, this tool also provides links to the data sources so users can dig deeper into the data.



Here are the features that are commonly found in SEO for Firefox:





PR- the popular Google PageRank




Age- the age of the website from when it was first indexed by Archive.org




Links- Yahoo! Linkdomain that shows the total number of links pointing at a domain




.edu Link- Yahoo! .edu linkdomain that shows the total number of .edu links pointing at a domain




.edu Page Link- Yahoo! .edu link that shows the total number of .edu links pointing at a specific page




.gov Link- Yah oo! .gov linkdomain that shows the total number of .gov links pointing at a domain




Page Links- Yahoo! Link that shows the total number of links pointing at a page




del.icio.us- the number of times the site was bookmarked




Technorati- the number of links to a site from blogs




Alexa- the websites traffic




Cached- shows the number of pages indexed in Google




DMOZ- counts the total number of pages listed in DMOZ and the total number of pages listed in DMOZ that reference that URL.




Bloglines- shows the number of people subscribed to a particular blog via Bloglines.




dir.yahoo.com




WhoIs- makes it easy to look up the whois data for any site.





With this complete information, webmasters could easy maintain and monitor their site, that is if it still fares up pretty well with competition or it might need more work.



Visit an SEO Philippines site to learn more about SEO tools used in an SEO campaign.


#2 SEO Quake



SEO Quake is a powerful tool for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, aimed at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization and internet promotion of web sites. SEO Quake allows user to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet project under study on the fly.



Features that are commonly found on SEO Quake are:





PR for Google PageRank




Google Index




Yahoo! Links




Yahoo! Link Domain




MSN Index




Alexa Rank




WebArchive Age




Del.Icio.Us Index




WhoIs




Page Source




Robots.txt




Sitemap




Links for Internal Links and External Links




Keyword Density





The good thing about SEO Quake is that the toolbar is found directly on top of the page, not on the toolbar of the browser so as to avoid distorting the main page. Its a cleverly designed transparent HTML block that normally appears minimized on upper-left corner of every page you load. Clicking on the maximize icon expands the bar displaying all the parameters. All the information displayed is in a short summarized format and individual items can be clicked on for detailed results through the corresponding Search Engine.



Learn more about Firefox tools used for SEO campaigns by visiting an SEO Philippines site.



#3 SEOpen



SEOpen is one of the many extensions or add-ons that are always present in a webmasters arsenal. Many consider that SEOpen is one of the most useful Firefox extensions ever developed, mainly because of its many benefits for their users. One of which is assistance for analyzing backlinks.



Though it is easy to type in link:http://domain.com in the search engine box, SEOpen makes this a lot easier by providing a convenient way for analyzing backlinks on all search engines. But not just backlinks, all features are available by right-clicking on an open area of a web page, or by using the included toolbar.



Here are the features commonly seen on SEOpen:





Yahoo Backlinks




Pages in Yahoo Index




Yahoo Domain links




Google Backlinks




Google Cache




Pages in Google index




Google Translate to English




Google Related




PageRank Checker




MSN Backlinks




Pages in MSN Index




MSN Domain links




Alexa Overview




Alexa Traffic




Alexa Related




Alexa Backlinks




"Mass Check" multiple sources at once for backlinks, indexed, and domain links




Check DMOZ Inclusion




Link analyzer




Keyword Density




Page Size Checker




HTML Validator




Server Header Viewer




Archives




Check robots.txt




Whois Info





Installing SEOpen is also as easy as it is used. Just download the add-on, and all will be ready for use. Just dont forget to choose the version that is compatible with the version of Firefox. Currently, SEOpen is updated to be compatible for use in Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1.



Plans are also underway for future versions of SEOpen that may include:





Yahoo & MSN Cache




Spider Simulator and/or Text Browser view




IP-based SEO tools




Toolbar Option





Check out an SEO Philippines site if you want to learn more about the tools used for SEO, or just visit Optimind Technology Solutions at www.myoptimind.com for more details.


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