Make Your Firefox Status Bar More Powerful For Search Engine Optimization
Your Browser setting decides how you surf the Internet. Mozilla Firefox is fast becoming the main competitor to beat many popular Browsers like Internet Explorer and similar others. Here is help as to how you can rejuvenate your Firefox Brower with additional and alternative extensions, so that you can maximize Search Engine Optimization with easy and perfect accessibility. The help is coming to you from seomoz.org – The Web’s Best SEO Resources.
- The Google Tool Bar
- The Yahoo Tool Bar
- The Microsoft Live Search Tool Bar
- The Ask.com Tool Bar
- The AOL Tool Bar
- The Alexa Tool Bar
- The Compete.com Tool Bar
- The NetCraft Tool Bar
- The StumbleUpon Tool Bar
- Search Status for Firefox Tool Bar
- Microsoft Developer Tool Bar
- Web Developer Tool Bar for Firefox
- Groowe Search Tool Bar
These reviews are by randfish SEO and co-founder of seomoz.org. The considered opinions of randfish are also given about these well-known tool bars, along with their usability to various customers – regular Internet users and professionals. The idea is to give a fair comparison of the tool bars most used on the net and help the viewers to select the features they would like to have in an ideal tool bar best suited to them.
In addition the following websites are also introduced to you, wherefrom you can download suitable extensions to your Firefox Status Bar:
- SEOquake - Seoquake is a powerful tool for Mozilla Firefox and for Internet Explorer. This can be very useful for webmasters in dealing with Search Engine Optimization as also web promotion. You as an internet user can obtain and investigate the important parameters of SEO just as quickly as you want. The icon on your browser can be switched on and off; access more features from there including settings; features include but not limited to line through “no follow” check links and key ward density etc. Your Seoquake tool is constantly updated to enhance its usability.
b) Search Status This is a toolbar extension for Firefox and Mozilla which allows you to see how any and every website in the world is performing. With the highly specialized needs of Search Engine Marketers in mind, this toolbar has been well designed to provide extensive search-related information about a particular site. All the tasks are conveniently displaced in one compact and discreet tool bar.
SearchStatus lets you view, whenever you visit a site, its Google Page Rank; Google Category; Alexa popularity ranking; Compete.com ranking; Alexa incoming links; Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Thus you can have a balanced view of the concerned site’s efficacy, as this toolbar provides combined search-related information. You can view at the same time the link importance according to Google; and its traffic importance according to Alexa.
The SearchStatus Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox extension will appear at the bottom of the browser on the status bar, unobtrusively. You can choose to view backward links for a particular page and they open in new tabs in the same browser window. When you disable the automatic Google and Alexa queries, they fold away from view.
c) SEOBook Rank Checker This is a free Search Engine Ranking Checking Tool for Firefox. that allows you to quickly check the site’s current rankings for the specified term: This is a very useful extension that allows you to easily check your website rankings in Google (US and international), Yahoo, and Microsoft Live search. This is intuitive and easy-to-use tool for SEO activities for webmasters and site owners.
d) Domain Details This is one of the Mozilla Firefox Adds-ons. Displays Server Type, IP Address with Location Flag, and links to various Whois Reports
- HTML validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. You can see the details of the errors, when looking the HTML source of the page.
The algorithms are embedded inside Mozilla/Firefox and make the validation locally on your machine, without sending HTML to a third party server. This will show you the current page HTML validation status - for details you will need to click the icon in the status bar:
f) Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way web pages look and function. Hundreds of scripts are already available for free. If you're interested you can also write your own.
Here are some more tips to optimize your FireFox:
- Create several FireFox profiles: A profile in FireFox is the collection of extensions, settings, bookmarks, passwords, as also user preferences that are saved for you in a separate set of files. You can create several such sets of preferences which will opens the whole wealth of opportunities for SEOs
Use FireFox search plugins and with these you get the ability to access almost any search engine right from your browser. What can you do with these? Well -:
- you have all search engines in one place at a time;
- you can very well switch from engine to engine with clicking the mouse just once;
- you save precious time and space: there appears an easy-to-use drop down menu to choose the engine you need;
- you can install quickly and easily ( most of these search plugins work for both FireFox as also Internet Explorer);
- you can get plenty of search options without making your browser work slower (many extensions currently available elsewhere can cause this slowness).
- You can access multiple search engines from one compact window.
All the above new facilities and extensions are provided to satisfy the cravings of end-users of Mozilla Firefox Status Bars. Wish you Good Luck!
Did you enjoy this post? Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically to your feed reader.
Comments
No comments yet.
Leave a comment