Why I love the SEOQuake Firefox Extension

Sometimes you do a search and you think to yourself "why the heck are they number 1?", well the SEOquake firefox extension gives you a little extra information to work it out.

Basically it lets you see a load of search engine parameters "on the fly". For example, I'm just checking my Euro 2008 site and notice its been fluctuating between 2nd and 6th for the past few months. SEOquake allowed me to check various information such as the Google PR of competiting pages, how many pages the site has in Google, how many links it's got in Yahoo!, how many pages indexed by MSN, its Alexa rank, the age of the document, how many links in del.icio.us and check the source.

But that's not all, it will allow you to order, within the SERPS, Google, MSN, Yahoo! etc. So I when I do my "euro 2008" search I order by PR to see how established the sites are, or age, pages indexed .....

Basically this is a list of parameters you can check:

List of parameters.

* Google PR
Google PageRank of current page

* Google Index
Number of indexed pages. Google version.

* Google link
Number of links, pointed to the current page. Google version (Except links from concerned domain).

* Google cachedate
Date of current Google cache.

* Yahoo Index
Number of indexed pages. Yahoo version.

* Yahoo link
Number of links, pointed to the current page. Yahoo version (Except links from concerned domain).

* Yahoo Linkdomain (LD)
Number of links, pointed to the current domain. Linkdomain (LD) operator finds pages linking to domain, as opposed to link which finds references to a single page. Yahoo version.

* Yahoo Linkdomain2 (LD2)
Number of links, pointed to the current domain (2-level domain). Linkdomain2 (LD2) operator finds pages linking to an entire domain, as opposed to linkdomain (LD) which finds references to a current domain (subdomain for example). Yahoo version.

* Yahoo Directory
Domain presence in the Yahoo Directory.

* MSN Index
Number of indexed pages . MSN version.

* MSN link
Number of links, pointed to the current page. MSN version (Except links from concerned domain).

* MSN Linkdomain (LD)
Number of links, pointed to the current domain. Linkdomain (LD) operator finds pages linking to domain, as opposed to link which finds references to a single page. MSN version.

* MSN Linkdomain2 (LD2)
Number of links, pointed to the current domain (2-level domain). Linkdomain2 (LD2) operator finds pages linking to an entire domain, as opposed to linkdomain (LD) which finds references to a current domain (subdomain for example). MSN version.

* Yandex CY
Yandex Rank of current page.

* Yandex index (russian SE)
Number of indexed pages. Yandex version.

* Yandex link
Number of links, pointed to the current page. Yandex version.

* Yandex catalogue
Domain presence in the Yandex Directory.

* Rambler index (russian SE)
Number of indexed pages. Rambler version.

* Rambler top100
Domain presence in the Rambler top100 catalogue.

* DMOZ Directory
Domain presence in the Dmoz Directory.

* Alexa Rank
Traffic estimation index.

* WebArchive age
First date in Archive.org

* Del.icio.us index
Link to del.icio.us history for current url.

* Technorati index
Link to Technorati history for current url.

* Digg index
Link to Digg history for current url.

* IP lookup
Current domain IP.

* Whois link
Link to the Whois record of current domain.

* View source
Link to the source code of current web page.

* Check robots.txt
Check if robots.txt file exists and if it does show link to it.

* Page links
Dispaly quantity of internal/external links with the link to the link list.

But don't go crazy as your IP could be banned!

However, you can save the information to a file and keep track of it.


Hotjiggidy!