This post is pretty much related to my last post on SEOmoz Page Strength tool. I stumbled upon this shortly after making that post.
SeoQuake is a great Firefox (v1.5 and higher) Add-On / Extension which displays a summary of a large number of Site Parameters (in search results of Google, Yahoo, MSN, Yandex, Rambler etc.) on-the-fly, for every page you visit.
Following installation, it appears as this clickable icon in the status bar of Firefox. Left-clicking it alternately enables/disables the extension.
The SE information displayed in the SEOBar include…
- Page Rank
- Search Engine Indexes
- Number of pages cached in popular Search Engines
- Number of incoming links to the site
- Link Domains
- Alexa Ranking
- Age of the site (from Internet Archives)
- IP of the site
- WhoIs information
- Robots.txt
- Keyword density etc.
However, SEOBar isn’t another browser toolbar cluttering up & reducing your browser’s page viewing area. It’s a cleverly designed transparent HTML block that normally appears minimised on upper-left corner of every page you load. Clicking on the maximise icon expands the bar displaying all the parameters. All the information displayed is in a short summarised format and individual items can be clicked on for detailed results through the corresponding Search Engine.
You are free to choose which all search engines to include the results from (among the given ones) and which all results/parameters to display.
The SE Parameter display isn’t limited to the SEOBar - when you perform a search on any of the popular search engines, similar parameters are displayed along with every search result returned.
All in all it’s a really handy tool for any webmaster and combined with SEOmoz can give you clear pointers as to how to increase your site’s visibility & rank.
David G. Paul said:
Sounds like the SEOpen extension with less features and put into a bar instead of the contextual menu
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Yup David, you’re right. And thanks for making me aware of that extension. I hadn’t come across it prior to this and checked it out immediately. Both these extensions offer a similar list of features (SEOpen offers more as you said) - however, they differ in their modus operandi. While with SEOpen you’ve to manually right-click and select a particular information you want about the currently loaded site (or use the toolbar that shows up), SeoQuake displays a summarised list as a floating HTML block right on the page itself.
In a way I guess I’d prefer SeoQuake, as I can’t really stand toolbars cluttering up & reducing my viewing area. That way SeoQuake’s got a big advantage over SEOpen.
I guess both have their pros and cons…but thanks again for informing me about SEOpen.
David G. Paul said:
Hey no problem! Glad I could help
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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Thanks Florian. Am glad that you liked the stuff I posted. Always feels good to have one’s work appreciated.
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robert said:
hi all.
Utah SEO said:
SEOQuake is a sweet add on for Firefox