Firefox Add-Ons: SEO for Firefox

If you’re a webmaster, you want to see your site as high as possible in the search engine results pages. The higher your site gets, the more traffic you can expect, and obviously more traffic leads to more buyers. Without traffic, it doesn’t matter how pretty your site is or how valuable the content is, as you just aren’t going to make money online without traffic.

How do you move your site higher in the SERPs? You have to beat out all those sites in front of you. In order to do this, you need to analyze your competition and understand why they are being ranked where they are. A great webmaster tool that I use to help me analyze my competition is SEO for Firefox, a free Firefox add-on that displays lots of great analytical information within your Google search results. For example, if you are targeting a keyword phrase such as “fuzzy widgets”, you can turn SEO for Firefox on then do a Google search for fuzzy widgets. Under each result, SEO for Firefox will display supplemental information about each site.

What will it show you? You will see Google’s PageRank, the age of the domain, number of pages indexed by Google, number of backlinks to the domain according to Yahoo, number of backlinks to the particular page according to Yahoo, number of bookmarks in Delicious, number of DMOZ entries, Alexa rank, and more. Using this information you can get an idea of what it may take to get your site to the front page of Google.

You can download both Firefox and SEO for Firefox and watch a great tutorial video at SEO Book. If you don’t have Firefox, I highly suggest using it if you’re going to be a serious webmaster as there are lots of great add-ons to help you succeed with your business. Install, watch the video tutorial and dominate the rankings!