Tuesday, March 17, 2009

SEO Toolbar


As you can see, this is the flow of SEO Toolbar.

As you surf the web the SEO Toolbar pulls useful market research data right into your browser, including:

Link Information

  • Links: (Yahoo! linkdomain) shows a rough estimate of the total number of links pointing at a domain
  • Page Links: (Yahoo! link) shows a rough estimate of the total number of links pointing at a page

Under the advanced information button you can also see details like

  • Uniqe linking domains: this comes from the fine folks at Majestic SEO
  • .edu Link: (Yahoo! .edu linkdomain ) shows a rough estimate of the total number of .edu links pointing at a domain
  • .edu Page Link: (Yahoo! .edu link ) shows a rough estimate of the total number of .edu links pointing at a specific page
  • .gov Link: (Yahoo! .gov linkdomain ) shows a rough estimate of the total number of .gov links pointing at a domain

Directory Information

  • Dmoz: searches the Google Directory to count the total number of pages from a site that are listed in DMOZ, and the total number of pages listed in DMOZ that reference that URL.
  • dir.yahoo.com: is a site listed in the Yahoo! Directory or not
  • BOTW: is a site listed in the BOTW Directory or not

Other Competitive Details

  • PR: (Google PageRank) an estimated measure of global link authority
  • Age: age pulled from Archive.org, shows the first time a page was indexed by Archive.org's spider. The theory is that if Archive.org found a page so did many of the major search engines.

Advanced Information Button

Clicking on the advanced information button allows you to bring up a lot of SEO related details, including

  • Site background information
  • Site links
  • Page links
  • Directory listings
  • Traffic estimates
  • Social media information from popular social bookmarking and social news sites

And you can easily export all this data.

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