It is a fact that the Google Webmaster Tools offers great data for all the webmasters. But still certain things are missing. Earlier, the webmasters had to chart the timeline of the inbound link from GMT, but on a manual basis.
But now, Russ Jones has announced the launch of an entirely new tool called Glync that shows link data for the most recent one month.
It's been a while, since we had an all-in-one web based tool that could provide Webmasters with comprehensive, relevant and important information in regards to their website rankings in major search engines, such as Google etc.
Ann Smarty over at Search Engine Journal has put up a post that highlights the Top 5 Firefox browser add-ons designed for exploring the backlinks. These plug-ins are:
Smart PageRank: This user-friendly Firefox add-on instantly checks backlinks for a current active page. It has a number of helpful settings that allow users to check for Google PageRank, anchor text and nofollow link attribute. However, there is one drawback to this tool and that is, it will open backlink list in the same tab as the active page and there’s no way to change that.
Aaron Wall has come up with a very simplistic tool used as an extension for Firefox. Known as 'Rank Checker', this extension allows a user to check the rankings of websites by grabbing data from major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Search Engine Result Pages .
This tool is very useful for site-owners and users alike. For a detailed description of Rank Check visit http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/
Recently, Aaron Wall released a new tool. This tool with the name of "Website Health Check Tool" has been developed especially for reviewing a site's title tags, descriptions, URLs, and page status codes.
Using appropriate keywords are immensely crucial to the ranking of the site you are working on. Imagine a site which has the coolest Flash applications, great and unique content, the best products and services. However, without appropriate keywords, it would hardly ever have a good rank in the Google SERPs! And what about domains and keywords listed in them? This is why Keyword selector tools help us in understanding and analyzing the market while also capitalizing on its benefits. Mentioned below is a list of 10 best keyword selector tools for SEO in alphabetical order: Ask: Run a search for say, 'Search Engine Optimization' in Ask.com. On the left side of the SERPs, you will find a segment titled 'Narrow Your Search,' that has links to all many search terms related to 'Search Engine Optimization'. Use these as keywords. Ask gives you refined SERPs through searching further with this feature. However, many may find this time-consuming. Also, it does not feature volume of traffic.
Every month there is a 'new, must-have SEO extensions' but we hope you don't fall into the trap and actually download them all. Listed below are some of our favorites (read at PageTraffic) and obviously the leading SEO extensions for Firefox available. Here goes the list:
1. Firebug 1.05 - With this helpful little add-on, you can tweak and monitor CSS, inspect and edit HTML, debug, visualize CSS metrics, monitor your network and also make changes in JavaScript live in any web page.
Recently, Francesco Mapelli came up with a new SEO tool, known as the 'Supplemental Index Ratio Calculator'. The main functionality of this tool is to provide the site owners with the percentage of pages from their site that are included in the Google Supplemental Index. The Supplemental Index Ratio tells you what percentage of pages from your website are supplemental results. It is good if your site have a lower Supplemental Index Ratio.
Half’s SEO Notebook has a comprehensive explanation about his new PR tool which he calls Supplemental Results Detector Tool.
“What this tool will do for you:
RedFly Marketing has released the Google Global Firefox Extension which is an unobtrusive Firefox extension. With the help of this extension, the user can know what the Google search results that they are viewing would look like from other geographical locations. The Google Global Firefox Extension is a very helpful tool in the e-commerce field as it allows the users to compare organic search results in different countries or to know how their AdWords PPC campaigns appear in different regions.
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