SEO Quake for Firefox

SEO Quake is a browser add-on for Firefox that was designed to aid in Search engine optimization for webmasters. It helps webmasters measure the success of their SEO campaign and compare it with their competitors. The latest versions are available for download at the Mozilla website. It has a rich feature set and like most things to do with Firefox – it’s free.

First it is a toolbar, the SeoBar, which shows the parameters, selected in options, for the page currently displayed in the browser window. It takes up minimal space in doing so and has almost no learning curve. Soon it becomes second nature to glance up at the bar and instantly know the essentials of a page such as Google’s and Alexa’s ranking for it. This also makes it easy to scope out advertising prospects quickly and easily. The options for parameters displayed by the bar are fully customizable by the user.

It’s more noticeable feature, is its addition of extra information to search engine results pages. It can add information such as Google Page Rank or Alexa Ranking with a few clicks of a mouse. Also possible is, the re-ordering of the results on a search page based on separate criteria such as Alexa Rank or the number of pages from each site, that are, indexed by Google and so on.

Also included is a tool for the creation of new user-defined parameters that can be a combination of existing parameters or an entirely new formula. This allows for a high level of customizability.

The tool can also highlight “no follow” links when viewing a web page making it great when commenting on blogs

A warning is necessary, however. This add-on works by querying the search engine for information to fulfill each requested parameter. This may lead to frequent repeated requests and a resulting IP address ban. To avoid this, such information is usually stored in cache, so ensure that your browser settings accommodate this.

Finally, the add-on is tiny in size but big in potential as it simplifies the difficult task of search engine optimization, particularly for those inexperienced, new webmasters. It is compatible with newer versions of Firefox.