The second Firefox extension I tried was SEO Quake’s tool. This tool can be installed from Firefox’s extensions page at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3036/. By the way, previously I had been using the term “plugin”, but it appears that “extension” is the proper term, so I’ll use “extension” from now on.
The highlights for this extension include:
1. Works on Yahoo, Google, MSN, and Russian search engines Rambler and Yandex by supplementing search results with key SEO statistics for each result.
2. For other web sites, a SEO Quake toolbar appears just above the page to indicate key SEO statistics for that page.
Below is the screenshot of how the extension looks on a Google search results page:
1: Extra space taken up by SEO Quake, quite possibly for its own sponsored search results later.
2: Information related to each term.
3: The SQ symbol on the status bar means the SEOQuake extension tool has been installed.
Below is the screenshot of how the extension looks on a non-search results page:
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4: A toolbar showing SEO statistics for the site you are viewing.
Below is the score for each category:
Ease of installation: 5
Ease of use: 4
Amount of time for the information to appear: 5
Usefulness of information presented: 4
Amount of real estate taken up: 4
Documentation: 3
Total: 25
Ease of installation: Installation was quick and problem free.
Ease of use: It’s about at the same level as the SEO Book extension.
Amount of time for the information to appear: Data loads quickly.
Usefulness of information presented: The only thing missing is query-level information for web searches.
Amount of real estate taken up: On search results pages, only the metrics user specified show up. This avoided wasting valuable space. The toolbar showing site-specific SEO data took up a bit more space than I’d like to see.
Documentation: Adequate documentation is available at http://www.seoquake.com/index-en.php.
Wish List
1. I did not like the fact that the SEO Quake message appears in the sponsored search listings area.
2. Better documentation. It took me a bit of time to find out Yandex and Rambler are both Russian search engines.