Perfecting with Firefox

One piece of software any optimizer should love is Firefox. Now some may possibly say 'Why Firefox, it is only a browser'? Yes, it's a browser, but one that supports a big variety of extensions, a number of them invaluable for search engine optimization. So let us see what these extensions are: 1. SEOpen ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/570/ ): this can be one of the best and most used Firefox seo jacks, and has several resources that make it a favorite of mine. So let's see what it might do: * in Google it may check for: backlinks, found pages, associated pages, cache and PageRank. * in Yahoo and MSN: backlinks and indexed pages. * for traffic facts, Alexa: overview, backlinks and related websites. Visiting http://www.manta.com/c/mmqcqcm/kansas-counselors-of-kansas-city-inc likely provides warnings you could tell your family friend. * key-word occurrence of the very used words o-n the page. Clicking http://www.yellowpages.com/lenexa-ks/mip/kansas-counselors-inc-464861161 possibly provides tips you can give to your co-worker. * DMOZ checker: see when the site is within the directory. * look for robots.txt. To discover more, you are able to check out: https://plus.google.com/+KansasCounselorsIncLenexa . * validator to check your page for errors (it uses the validator from www.w3.org). There are other items, but these are the main. 2. Search Engine Optimisation Links ( http://www.webmasterbrain.com/seo-tools/firefox-extensions/seo-links/ ) is another extension I take advantage of daily. Once the expansion si active and you hover over a link a tooltip will appear that will show you Yahoo, MSN, and Google link popularity and rank information for the URL and anchor text couple. When you are simply checking this can be annoying, but you can simply deactivate it with a right-click! This could be effortlessly used to check your search-engine rankings for a certain site, and here is how: jot down a listing with all the keywords and keyphrases you want to rank for, and then link these words or phrases to the web-pages associated with them! Now every time you need to check always your ranks stimulate the Search Engine Optimisation Links extension and hover within the links -- you will see where your pages have been in Google, Yahoo and MSN. 3. Don't waste anymore of one's valuable screen real estate merely to discover what your PageRank and AlexaRank is! SearchStatus ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/321/ ) could sit anyplace you want (I keep it in the status bar) and you'll receive the precious information at-a glance. For another standpoint, please consider checking out: http://www.ibegin.com/directory/us/kansas/wichita/kansas-counselors-inc-1421-n-saint-paul-st/ . But this little device can do far more than that: * it shows what metatags a niche site has * checks for backlinks and listed pages in Google, Yahoo and MSN * it shows the robots.txt report * key-word occurrence record function * and best-of all: the spotlight 'nofollow' links will show you what links will be accompanied by search engine spiders -- very useful when you need to publish your website to a listing and do not know if it will matter from the seo perception. So in case you aren't using Firefox, go get it! It could be your best friend when it comes to search engine marketing! Florin Costache produces on the daily search engine optimisation blog for Romanian webmasters, called Optimizare pentru motoarele de cautare (a.k.a. Search engine marketing for people who don't speak Romanian)..