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SearchStatus: The SEO Extension for Firefox and Mozilla

SearchStatus is a toolbar SEO extension for Firefox and Mozilla that allows you to check the performance of any website. Designed by Quirk for the highly specialised needs of search engine marketers, and fast becoming an indispensable SEO tool, this toolbar provides extensive search-related information about a site, all conveniently displayed in one discreet and compact toolbar. It's one of the many Internet marketing solutions that Quirk has to offer.

The Swiss Army Knife of SEO Tools

For every site you visit, SearchStatus lets you view the following information:

• Google PageRank
• Google Category
• Alexa popularity ranking
• Compete.com ranking
• SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank
• Alexa incoming links
• Alexa related links
• backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN

This combined search-related information means you can view not only the link importance of a site (according to Google), but also its traffic importance (according to Alexa), meaning you have an even-handed view of the site's efficacy.

The SearchStatus Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox extension appears unobtrusively at the bottom of the browser on the status bar. If you choose to view backward links for a particular page, they open in new tabs in the same browser window. Disable the automatic Google and Alexa queries and they fold away from view.

Simply left-click one of the three areas and select an option from the pop-up menu.

Download SearchStatus

You need to be running a Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox browser to install this. If you are, just click on the link and it should install automatically. Then restart your browser, and see SearchStatus in the bottom right corner.

Technical Notes: SearchStatus has been tested from Firefox 0.9 to 3.1b3 as well as Mozilla 1.7.3. Queries made to Google, Alexa and Compete are cached to minimise network traffic. Alexa queries made do affect Alexa statistics. Compete queries made do affect Compete statistics. Please post any comments, bugs and other feedback in the form below.

Privacy Notes: The Google PageRank ranking sends your current URL and a hash of it to Google. The Alexa Rank ranking sends your current URL domain, your local IP address and a unique constant to Alexa Web Services. The Compete ranking (disabled by default) sends your current domain and a unique constant to Compete. The Linkscape mozRank ranking (disabled by default) sends your current URL to Linkscape. All of these displays can be turned off independently.

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Change Log

• 2009-09-29: ver 1.31 - Better bar and tooltip state indication, new Domain mozRank feature, new Show other domains on this IP feature, rankings for HTTPS, left-click to refresh ranking, new Alexa search keywords feature, hide canonical button, miscellaneous fixes.
• 2009-05-14: ver 1.30 - Canonical link detection with 'C' icon in location bar (!), character counts in Meta Tags, Firefox 3.5 support, private browsing integration, backward links engines revision, improved nofollow highlighting, and bugs fixed.
• 2009-02-16: ver 1.29 - Minor updates and performance improvements.
• 2009-02-09: ver 1.28 - mozRank from SEOMoz's Linkscape added! Also new Private Mode to only fetch rankings on request, better use of Yahoo's SiteExplorer for backward link checks, and bugs fixed with loading tabs in the background.
• 2008-09-25: ver 1.27 - Fix clearing nofollow highlighting, retrieve sitemap.xml, add who.is WHOIS provider and only count keywords bounded by non word characters.
• 2008-07-23: ver 1.26 - Improve Keyword Density accuracy, extension manager fix.

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