SEO plugin of the week – SearchStatus
In our first weekly review of SEO plugins we feature the Firefox tool bar extension SearchStatus.
SearchStatus allows you to check the quality of any website. Designed by Quirk for search engine marketers, this toolbar provides extensive search engine related information about a site, all conveniently displayed in one discreet and compact toolbar placed at the bottom right of your Firefox browser.
Once installed SearchStatus allows you to view a website’s Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. This combined cocktail of search-related data means you can view not only the link importance of a site (according to Google), but also its traffic importance (according to Alexa and Compete), so providing a balanced view of site quality.
The SearchStatus Firefox extension appears unobtrusively at the bottom of the browser on the status bar.
Requirements: Firefox 1.0+
Size: 45.44 KB
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Comments
Cool idea. SearchStatus is an awesome plugin, been using it for quite a while and so far I’m happy!
This is a phenomenal tool to have if marketing is your thing.
However, I am at the point where I have adopted Google’s Chrome as a member of my digital family and the only thing I currently use Firefox for is (no hiccup) FTP uploads.
I am almost sure there are a good few thousand more people that have decided to get married to Chrome – even though it’s not mainstream mainstream yet.
So how about using your propensity to come up with stuff nobody else does and your clout to collab with the developers of SearchStatus and tweak the code for Chrome. Don’t worry about IE. Not many people will be using it in 5 years.
Hi Charl,
Thanks for the mention and recommendation – it’s always much appreciated!
Craig
Hi, I enjoyed using this tool for Firefox, but with the last update the function “Show Backward Links” was changed, for example with previous version links in Yahoo looked like this:
1) http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linkdomain%3Aexample.com+-site%3Aexample.com&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
and now they look like this:
2) http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=example.com&bwm=i&bwmo=d&bwmf=s
Can you please let me know what I should do so the links look like in option 1?
Thanks
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