SEO-oriented add-ons to help the optimizer

Rank Checker

Eiron Wall (Aaron Wall, author of SEO Book) recently published a version of a powerful addon for Firefox called Rank Checker.

Rank Checker - absolutely free addon and is available for download without registration. It's very simple: you enter the site URL and you need keywords, then select the search engine (eg, Google). Rank Checker will search the pages having a link to a site you enter, which contain your keywords.

Yes, there are many such tools, but this addon has its own peculiarities. It is not only conveniently built into the browser Firefox, but also has many options for managing search (support multiple language versions of Google) and the ability to set the interval between requests. In addition, a list of keywords you entered, you can save, so do not have to enter them each time anew. This is especially useful if you are working on the promotion of several sites, and each has its own list of words. These advantages make the Rank Checker indispensable tool for SEO experts and webmasters. The process of reporting can be automated by specifying the time interval for data collection.

Results Rank Checker reports can be exported as a CSV file to work with it in Excel or another program. Eiron prepared a 5-minute video on its website, which tells about the use of add-on. After seeing it, you do not have problems in dealing with Rank Checker.

SEO Quake

SEO Quake - another interesting addon that you may want to install. With SEO Quake work on the promotion of the site will become easier. After installing the tool, go to the main page of Google. And enter a search phrase. Next to each link is found, you will see the additional information gathered by the SEO Quake: PR, Alexa rating, number of indexed pages, number of inbound links etc. You can choose to display a variety of data.

If you need more number of incoming links, then you can find figures in on competitors, and view all link to his page. Thus, you get a list of sites where you can post links.

SEO Quake can also save all the data records in CSV format. The only disadvantage of add-on - a slowing rate of loading search pages, but surfing the information can be turned off if at the moment this function you do not need.

Open Source Link Analysis Tool

Eltoft Patrick (Patrick Altoft) has developed a tool for the analysis of options, which has the same function as the SEO Quake. But this addon is not designed for Firefox, but works directly on the site, using the database MySQL.

Draft published open source, so that any developer could make their own changes and additions, so stay tuned.

Tool's features:

    * To search for information using Yahoo API search engine

    * Gathers information about each of these links and builds the results in order to reduce the number of inbound links.

    * Allows you to view information about the links of level 2 in the retrieved results

    * Ability to import files, Google sitemap

    * Ability to import a text list of references

    * Allows you to display information about the ranking of your website in any search engine.