Search Engine Optimization

Swoosty SEO Tools for Firefox

Automatically displays the Google pagerank and Alexa ranking of each site you visit, and provides essential tools for SEO and analysis: indexed pages, backlinks, related links, keyword density analyser, nofollow highlighting, Alexa infos, WHOIS...

Page Rank Display for Google Chrome

This extension gets the toolbar PageRank of the page open in the current tab. If it fails it tries getting the PR of the hostname instead, and if that succeeds it shows the PR followed by the letter h. If neither succeeds (if the site doesn't have a PR or for some reason the extension isn't working as it should) it will show a greyed-out question mark.

When you click the extension icon it will bring up a popup/overlay with links to several things interesting when analysing a site, such as pages indexed by Google, Alexa information and backlinks from Yahoo! Site Explorer.

Find free edu blog links via Google search.

Type: inurl:blogs inurl:edu

Why are .edu links so important? .edu links belong to educational institutions, therefore many links referenced from them are meaningful or resource links to additional meaningful material, therefore search engines take give them credibility. In addition, they are less likely to have spam which also gives them more priority by search engines like Google.

How to get links from .edu domains relevant to your website's topic

Link: http://www.galido.net/blog/index.php/coolblog/2009/12/14/jingle-bells-played-backwards

See original post: Jingle Bells Backwards

Keywords are text entered by the user into a search engine or directory. Found matches (known as hits) appear in a list. To get an idea of what top keywords users are currently entering, view some of these sites:

AOL Hot Searches (Top current queries, or see those in the last hour, last day and within particular categories.): http://hotsearches.aol.com/search/hotsearch.jsp

Google Trends (Allows you to tap into Google's database of searches, to determine what's popular.): http://google.com/trends

Lycos 50 (Long-standing service showing top searches at Lycos each week): http://50.lycos.com/

MSN Search Insider (Top 200 queries on MSN Search): http://www.imagine-msn.com/insider/

Yahoo Buzz Index (Shows you what's hot and what's not in terms of search topics at Yahoo): http://buzz.yahoo.com/

These sites display keywords that people have entered to search each specific search engine.