Browser Toolbars For SEO Expert

Search engine optimization or SEO is a part of internet marketing, which is much about analysis. Doing SEO, it is necessary to analyze many aspects of the web resource, from its domain name to a number of backlinks and to keywords density on website’s pages. Analysis of such information gives you a solid ground to start building you internet marketing campaign and reach you business objectives.

 

Today there are plenty of multiple SEO tools: some of them are commercial and others are offered for free, some tools are really effective and others are completely useless or even harmful. In this post I would like to focus on a specific group of SEO tools, known as browser toolbars. These are small add-ons, which can be installed into your browser (Firefox is leading in this regard). Such SEO toolbars are mostly distributed for free, however, they can be used as quick and efficient sources of information on a number of website parameters and data, crucial for effective search engine optimization.

 

After installing a particular SEO toolbar, it sits in your browser, ready to monitor the sites you open and show you the required information. Some of the toolbars are working constantly (which can be pretty annoying, since you do not need SEO analysis of all the websites you are visiting), others work in more sophisticated way, waiting for your command to start SEO analysis. When choosing among toolbars to install, please, spend some time on reading the description and functionality in order to choose the solution, meeting your expectations in the best possible way.

 

So, let’s get closer to the point and name some of the most popular browser toolbars, which can be used for the purposes of search engine optimization.

 

SEO Tools for Firefox

This extension works by adding more information to Google search results. When you search for something in Google, this tool displays additional SEO information right below each search result in the list.

What information is available:

- Google pagerank

- Age of the website

- Links (both to a domain and to a particular webpage)

- Number of .edu and .gov backlinks

- Presence in dmoz catalogue

- WhoIs information

 

SEO Quake

This tool is aimed to help web masters, who deal with search engine optimization and internet marketing. This Firefox add-on offers a huge range of SEO parameters available, including but not limited to the following:

- Google PR and Index

- Yahoo index

- MSN, Google, and Yahoo links

- Dmoz directory

- Alexa rank

- Wikipedia

- IP lookup and whois information

 

SEOmoz Toolbar

This is another powerful browser toolbar for experts in search engine optimization. Along with the common and typical SEO parameters, this toolbar will also show you:

- Linkscape metrics

- Meta tags, description and other internal factors of SEO

- Robots file status

- Page load time

- Detailed information on backlinks

 

Of course, this is only a small fraction of browser toolbars available for SEO masters. Visit the official website of your internet browser and look for full list of SEO toolbars.