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.

In Celebration Of St. Patrick's Day

Today is St. Patrick's day. How are you going to celebrate it? To me, I have no idea yet because this is my first time to celebrate this event. We have no St. Patrick's day in the Philippines so this will be a whole new experience to me. They said during St. Patrick's day there are a number of places that will be bustling and overflowing with people. This event is celebrate in every State in United States. Just like in New York, there celebration is one of a kind. The New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade is world-famous and allegedly the largest St. Patrick’s Day celebration. The tradition started in 1762 as a modest foot parade, and to this day does not include any commercial aspects like floats or cars. Approximately 150,000 to 250,000 people march before an estimated 2 million spectators.

The St. Patrick’s Day Parade was originally downtown, centered around the Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral at 32 Prince Street. The initial participants were Irish immigrants and Irish military men in the British Army who were stationed in the American colonies. At the time, the British had placed restrictions on Irish customs (like dancing and language) within Ireland, and the Irish in New York reveled in being able to celebrate freely.
Today, the parade goes past Saint Patrick’s Cathedral at 50th Street and continues up to the American Irish Historical Society at 86th Street. It is still led by a unit of soldiers – currently the “Irish Infantry” – and is now officially sponsored by the Ancient Order of Hibernians.

The best spots to view the parade are on the uptown end of the route. Try to find a spot high up on the Metropolitan Museum steps, or on the corner of 86th Street (where the parade turns). The starting and ending points of the parade are typically good for viewing. Pedestrians can only cross the parade route in groups at police-regulated points these areas get crowded, but once the masses move you can typically find a better viewing spot. The parade starts at 11am on 44th Street and finishes roughly 5pm at 86th Street. It will be broadcast on NBC for four hours.