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Top 5 Best Firefox Addons Essential For SEO Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:56 PM PDT There are a plethora of SEO related plug-ins available, so it can be difficult to determine which Firefox plug-ins are the best to use for SEO benefit, and which are the most useful when it comes to conducting SEO campaigns. Any experienced Search Engine Optimization specialist will swear by his top SEO plugins and add-ons. Having vital SEO info and stats at your fingertips is not only a great time-saving, but ensures SEO is never far from your mind when your out and about on the internet. It is no secret that search engine optimized articles are very popular and your best shot to get loads of visitors. Firefox is a popular web browser that is used for faster internet surfing while also allowing for multiple add-ons such as the five listed below for SEO's. So here are top five Firefox SEO extensions every Webmaster should have: Best Firefox SEO Plug-ins For Bloggers 1. SEOQuake This is by far one of the most popular SEO related plug-ins available, and is one that we frequently use day to day in our SEO work. When you visit a site, you can see information about the page that you are currently on, such as its age, page rank, when it was last visited by Google, the list goes on. You can opt to see this information right away, or you can set it that the information is only found when you choose to do so. This can help to reduce problems with Google, who will start to notice unusual traffic from your IP address if this feature is utilized too often. SeoQuake extension helps to check for competition such as to check PageRank, backlinks, domain age and various other statistics. This SEO add-on helps webmasters deal with search engine optimization and promotional websites. The extension is fully customizable, and you can select the parameters or features that you wish to use. This can also help to make the plug-in work faster, and reduce the amount of suspicious traffic that is coming from your IP. 2. Firebug This is a nifty little Firefox plug-in that is great to use for SEO purposes, and also for web development, if you work in that field. It allows you to see the HTML and CSS of an element with a page, but you can also make changes to the code and see immediately how it would look if these changes were actually made on the site. This SEO extension is particularly useful when it comes to making a mock-up for a client, as you can quickly and easily make a mock-up, without having to physically download pages and then make changes. Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a number of essential development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. You can also find and edit DOM (Direct Object Model) quickly. 3. SearchStatus This Firefox SEO addon allows you to display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete ranking and SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank of any website in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and other SEO tools. This Firefox extension allows you to see how any and every website in the world is performing. Designed for the highly specialized needs of search engine marketers, this toolbar provides extensive search-related information about a site, all conveniently displayed in one discreet and compact toolbar. 4. IE Tab As Internet Explorer is still a popular browser, it is necessary for us to ensure that any site we have created or modified still works across all the commonly used browsers. Rather than opening each program separately, we use these extensions to see how the site displays, and ensuring that the site loads properly across each browser that visitors are most likely to use. This is a great tool for bloggers and webmasters, since you can easily see how your web page displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox. 5. Foxy SEO Tool Foxy SEO Tool is a free, open source toolbar that provides quick and easy access to a multitude of search engine functions such as Google Site, Yahoo! Site Explorer, Live Fromlinks. Also included are famous web traffic analysis sites such as Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, popular statistic aggregators like Quarkbase and WebSiteOutlook. You can check a site's listing in important directories like Dmoz and Yahoo! Directory, buzzing Web 2.0 sites such as Technocrati, Wikipedia, Digg, Delicious and links to useful network functions like Whois, Geotool, Internet Archive, etc. Guest Author: This is a guest article by Angela who likes the potential that SEO can bring to businesses and enjoys writing articles that answers questions and discusses possibilities.

Internet Explorer IQ Study Was An Elaborate Hoax Posted: 04 Aug 2011 03:07 AM PDT A ‘so-called’ study that linked a user’s browser choice to his IQ [intelligence quotient] and concluded that Internet Explorer users were not as smart as those using other Web browsers is apparently fake and was an elaborate hoax, according to the person that initially made it viral. It has now emerged that the company’s domain name and website were only recently set up and staff images were lifted from a legitimate French business in Paris. Thumbnail images of the firm’s staff on the website also matched those on the site of French research company Central Test, although many of the names had been changed. Two days after the study was widely circulated in media across the world, a computer programmer named Tarandeep Gill, the person behind the hoax wrote on www.aptiquant.com, “There is no company called AptiQuant, and no such survey was ever done“. He further added, “The main purpose behind this hoax was to create awareness about the incompatibilities of IE6, and not to insult or hurt anyone.“ Earlier, AptiQuant had claimed that it surveyed over 1 lakh Web users and found that Opera users were smartest while IE users “have a below than average IQ score.“ “So, frustrated with Internet Explorer, I went on to create a meme that would result in some awareness and hopefully convince a few Web users to stop using IE 6,” Gill wrote on AptiQuant. “But what’s really funny is that everybody took the report so seriously, with comments like ‘Oh did we need such a study, we already knew that,” wrote Gill. You may want to call the person behind the ‘fake survey‘ a liar, but I don't see it being as much about lying as it is about being a case of very good viral marketing combined with the media's eagerness to pick up shocking and popular stories without fact checking them first. But perhaps it was a test after all. If you follow any publications that wrote this story up last week and haven't yet corrected it, you might ask them where they send their journalists for training. In short, you may not want to believe anything this study claimed… still the stereotype of backward IE users continues to proliferate and Microsoft will certainly hope to reverse the trends once they release IE 9.

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