How to Use SEO for Firefox

SEO for Firefox is an extension for the Firefox browser, developed and provided by SEOBook.com.  It provides super-useful marketing data which makes it easy to see what your competition is up to.  This is a great tool for developing SEO strategy and tactics to improve your page ranking with both Google and Yahoo search engines, and it won’t cost you a dime.

First things first, if you’re not using Firefox as your browser, download and install it.  Once that’s done, the next step is to visit the SEO for Firefox plug-in page and follow the directions to install.  You’ll have to be using Firefox to install SEO for Firefox correctly.

Most likely Firefox will ask you if you want to allow the installation by dropping down a little bar at the top of the page.  Click allow and continue.  A menu will pop up in the middle of the page – click Install Now.

Next, it will ask you to restart Firefox.  Go ahead and do that.  Once Firefox restarts do a quick Google or Yahoo search on anything that pops into your mind.  Search snowboarding, for example.  If SEO for Firefox is working, you’ll see a menu of information under each search result.  The information will contain the following for each site:

• Page Rank
• Google Cache Date
• Age
• del.icio.us
• Links
• .edu Links
• .gov Links
• Page Links
• .edu Page Links
• Technorati
• Alexa
• Compete.com Rank
• Compete.com Uniques
• Trends
• Cached
• DMOZ
• Bloglines
• dir.yahoo.com
• Botw
• Whois

Now what if you’re not doing competitive research?  What if you’re just browsing online?  With one click you can turn off SEO Firefox and that very long list of data points is gone.  How?  At the bottom of your browser page, in the far right hand corner youíll see the SEO Firefox button. To turn it on click it and it’ll show up in full color.  To turn it off, click it and it’ll turn black and white.

SEO Firefox also offers a bit of customization.  You can choose:

• Auto – which automatically pulls in all the data points whenever you search with Google or Yahoo
• On-Demand – which shows you the available data categories but not the results unless you click on them.
• Hidden – which enables you to hide data you do not fine useful. For example if the Whois information is irrelevant to you then you can hide that date when you search.

To change your settings (they’re automatically set for On-Demand), simply visit the Tools menu on your Firefox toolbar.  Click on it and in the drop down menu choose SEO for Firefox Options. Youíll then see another drop down menu where you can choose your settings.

Bottom Line: SEO Firefox is a terrific tool for internet marketers looking to stay ahead of their competition. Check it out!