I’ve installed the SeoQuake plugin 5 days ago, and now I’m hooked. I’m saying that it’s a must have plugin because it offers you new opportunities and it’s a huge time saver when you’re doing research on the competition for any keywords.
It has two major components. First, adding to your search engine results different data for each of the websites ranking for the term you’re searching for. Here’s an example of what you can see when looking for “paris destinations”, first two pages that rank for that keyword.
Open the screenshot in a new window and look at it carefully. This is the information you can see for the first result:
- PR 6,
- 258,000 pages indexed by Google
- 6 backlinks for that particular page that is ranking, as shown by Yahoo
- 672,000 backlinks for the entire domain, as shown by Yahoo
- 55,612 pages indexed by Live.com
- Alexa rank: 3359
- Archive.org has data about this website since 1996
- nobody saved this url in Del.icio.us
- 3 reactions about this page in Technorati
- link to whois query and link to the page source
And this is not all. It can show you much more, like backlinks in each of the 3 search engines and even pages indexed by Yahoo (which I forgot to activate).
Just imagine how much time it would take you to type in all the commands to get this data manually. Even if you preferred that, there is no comparison with having the entire picture right in front of you.
The second component is the Seobar, and you see it when you visit a website. The same information you saw in the SERPS, you can now see at the top of the website.
Click again for the full image. You can see the information at the top, plus something extra I added for the Seobar, whether the site has a robots.txt file, keyword density and how many internal and external links are on the page.
What Is It Good For
- saves a lot of time when doing research
- anytime you search something online you can immediately see if it’s a good niche that you can get into
- see the larger picture by having information on all the competitors in one screen, without doing any work for it
- click on the Yahoo Backlinks data for example and it takes you directly to that page where you can see them all. Same goes for the other data shown.
Now, the only problem I have with it, is that sometimes it doesn’t automatically load the data for individual pages when I’m browsing a site and I have to click the ? signs for each piece of information in order for it to be retrieved. It always works in the search engine results though.
If only it would also show the number of searches that different tools give for the keywords you look for in Google, it would be perfect.
You can download the SeoQuake plugin for Firefox or Internet Explorer from the SeoQuake homepage.
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