Aaron Walls of SEO Book fame has recently released an add-on for FireFox called ‘SEO for Firefox’. This tool is exclusively designed to assist you in gathering data when you are researching a new website market. It puts a wealth of information at your fingertips when searching engines or visiting pages so that you can decide more easily if a particular market is a worthwhile endeavor.
What information does it display?
- PR: (Google PageRank) I can’t tell you how much I like having the pr displayed right under the search results; saves a lot of time
- Age: useful for seeing how long (and possibly how established) a site is, pulled from Archive.org spider’s first index of the page
- Links: rough estimate of how many sites are linking to the domain (using Yahoo! linkdomain)
- .edu Link: rough estimate of how many .edu sites link to the domains (using Yahoo! .edu linkdomain)
- .edu Page Link: rough estimates of how many .edu sites link to a specific page (using Yahoo! .edu link)
- .gov Link: same as above, but for .gov (using Yahoo! .gov linkdomain)
- Page Links: rough estimate of the total number of links pointing at a page, (using Yahoo! link)
- del.icio.us: number of times a URL has been bookmarked on Del.icio.us; heavily skewed toward techy / Web 2.0 stuff
- Technorati: an estimate of the total number of links to a site from blogs
- Alexa: rank based on website traffic; heavily skewed toward internet marketing and webmaster related resources
- Cached: (Google site:) shows how many pages from a site are indexed in Google
- dmoz: searches the Google Directory to count the total number of pages from a site that are listed in DMOZ, and the total number of pages listed in DMOZ that reference that URL
- Bloglines: shows you how many people are subscribed to a particular blog via Bloglines
- dir.yahoo.com: is a site listed in the Yahoo! Directory or not?
- WhoIs: makes it easy to look up the whois data for any site
All this information at your fingertips! It’s found right below the search results, or with a simple right click on a page. I’m definitely going to be installing this plugin on all my computers. You can find more about the plug (including an install link, download instructions and Aaron’s personal recommendations on the settings) here.
