Two weeks ago I talked about my favorite presenter from SES Toronto 2008, Ken Jurina (this is a picture of Ken with Google Guru Matt Cutts). Ken is the man behind Epiar, a search engine optimization service company based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. As I mentioned two weeks ago, with only 15 minutes to speak Ken listed off a new tool almost every 30 seconds and gave web entrepreneurs a fantastic list of SEO-related resources to add to their arsenal.
I’m pleased to now share some of the results from Ken’s presentation:
Firefox Extensions – www.getfirefox.com
Pros:
•Tools work right within your browser
•Very quick, very powerful, and very free
Critiques:
•None – critiques usually resolved with extension updates
Cool:
•Audit a clients site live: SE Issues, opt. improvement
•SEO Extensions: SEOpen, Search Status, SEO Links, Groowe Toolbar, Customize Google
•Others: PDF Download, AI Roboform Toolbar for Firefox, Search Keys, IE Tab
Cost:
•FREE
URL for Extensions:
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
SpyFu – www.spyfu.com
Pros:
•great competitive insight on PPC & Organic
•works in browser, quick & thorough.
•free stuff is good – though you can subscribe for more
Critiques:
•busy interface
•not intuitive as to what a particular button/tool does
Cool:
•dashboard: charts and data mash-ups
Cost:
•Some free options / additional subscription options
Browsershots – www.browsershots.org
Pros:
•works right within your browser
Critiques:
•Very slow gathering screen grabs
•May timeout when selecting multiple browsers
Cool:
•Can toggle screen size, flash, javascript, java and color depth.
•Great to see what your site looks like without manually
downloading and viewing all browsers.
•Fun if you’re bored.
Cost:
•FREE
What are your favorite SEO Tools?
Two good SEO/internet marketing firefox plug ins:
1. “Search status” is great, as allows you to do lots of nice things with a simple right click.
2. “Alexa Sparky” is great for a quick idea of how popular a site is.
Add SEOQuake (Firefox extension) and the iwebtool Backlink checker – both great tools.
You should try SeoDigger.com.
What it does is it accepts a url from the user and it shows the keywords for which that site ranks within the top 20 Google search results.You can sneak on your competitors blog or site and find out what keywords it ranks for highly in Google.Obviously you can also check whether your site’s keyword rank within the Google top 20.
I’m using ExactFactor to check my website position.
It’s really nice SEO tool.
You can find it here.
http://www.ExactFactor.com
I’m glad to see FireFox on your list, it’s an excellent SEO tool that I use myself. It actually works even better with SearchSEO addon.