Firefox as a tool for better SEO
Among the various SEO tools available for you to use on a website is the Firefox browser. Well, not Firefox itself, but many of its add-ons. All of these other tools can also be valuable and helpful, depending on the way you use them.The Attention Interactive Los Angeles Web Design And Development Agency would like to share several Firefox SEO extensions with you. Some of them are free and some of them are not; it is your choice which one to use, since all of them are good.
So, first – what do you think makes Firefox such a good tool?
- Because it is a free web browser.
- Because it is a secure web browser. You can feel safe with Firefox because its development team releases patches available for instant update if ever a security issue comes up.
- Firefox is a web browser available on many platforms with the same functionality. The platforms Firefox is available on include Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems.
- Firefox's extensions are numerous and created with a huge developer network. Just as with Firefox itself, most of the extensions are available for multiple platforms and are free to download and use.
- Firefox is just a skeleton that supports a basic function – web browsing. Anything beyond that is up to you. You can extend it as much as you like and you can theme it to look exactly the way you prefer.
Now, lets go back to Firefox extensions.
- SEO For Firefox is a great Aaron Wall's tool that is very configurable, with 13 different metrics, including ones like domain age and page rank, and others like .edu inbound links and the del.icio.us bookmark.
- SEOpen is another terrific tool that has many different metrics, including back links on Google, Yahoo, MSN and Alexa. Also, archived pages, page rank, Whois, checking robots.txt and server headers. And many, many more. You should check it and try it.
- Web Developer is yet another great extension. This Firefox add-on adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser. Many web development tools are available including tools with the ability to disable images, JavaScript, and CSS. And that's a good way to compare how a page looks in relation to a text browser or to search engine robots.
- yExplore is a specific Yahoo Site Explorer tool that can come in handy by offering easy access using right click to get Yahoo Site Explorer info.
- KGen is a fine tool for keyword analytics. Not meta keywords, of course, but the keywords found in your content item. Keyword analytics includes analyzing for keyword placement and frequency. Copy to clipboard is also available and can be useful when you wish to tag bookmarks.
- SeoQuake is a splendid and interesting tool that can be used to analyze search engine results and many other parameters that may have an impact on search engine optimization. Anything you do on it you can save and have a reference to it in the future, and you can make comparisons to several measurements.
- Prefbar Firefox extension can enable and disable Flash, JavaScript and images, and can also switch user agent.
- MetaTags is oriented to meta data on a page that includes descriptions and keywords.
- Niche Watch Tool is useful for checking back links, indexed pages, keyword analytics and other SEO metrics.
- Search Status is great for highlighting no-follow links, indexed pages, back links and complete search engine rankings.
If there are any other questions you might have, you are most welcome to ask and the Attention Interactive Los Angeles Web Design And Development Agency will be delighted to answer.
