Being able to track how successful your search engine optimisation from directly within your browser is not a new idea. We’ve all been using the Google toolbar, or a derivative of it, for a long time. However, being able to track backlinks and a whole lot more is something new.
Over the past couple of days I’ve come across two extensions for firefox which enable you do just that.
SEOpen’s extension has the following features:
- Yahoo Backlinks
- Yahoo Domain Links
- Google Backlinks
- Google Cache
- Pages in Google’s index
- Google Related
- PageRank Check
- MSN Backlinks
- Pages indexed by MSN
- Alexa Overview
- Alexa Traffic
- Alexa Related
- Alexa Backlinks
- Check DMOZ inclusion
- Keyword Density
- Page Size Checker
- HTML Validator
- Server Header Viewer
- Wayback Machine
Simply download the extension as normal and restart Firefox. To use the extension simply right click anywhere on a page your are interested in and you will see a new menu appear:
More information and download on SEOpen. Found via Motoricerca
The other extension uses AJAX:
The SEO Links extension gives you tooltips specially enhanced for SEOs. When enabled, hovering any link in Firefox will show you Yahoo, MSN, and Google link popularity and ranking data for the URL and anchor text pair. For times you just want regular surfing and tooltips, the extension can be quickly toggled on and off in a single click.
It’s nice 🙂
See the example below:
The ranking will display whatever the search engines return for the exact phrase in the link, so if your link was labelled
My funky link
it would try to match the entire text string in google, msn and Yahoo.
Although this is useful there are limitations, as the entire link text may not be what you are interested in optimising in all cases. However in other instances the anchor text is exactly what you are interested in using.
If you download the extension and play around with it you should get the idea.
More information and download on the extension’s site. Found via BasicThinking
That popup could become very annoying. Looking interesting so far though.
Alan
I should have mentioned – you can disable it with one click on the icon down the status bar (?) on the bottom right
The SearchStatus Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox extension appears unobtrusively at the bottom of the browser on the status bar. If you choose to view backward links for a particular page, they open in new tabs in the same browser window.