Comments on: A Beginner’s SEO Toolbox

By: Donace

Donace — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:45:13 +0000

I think one other plugin that deserves a mention is ’search status’.

This plugin displays PR and Alexa rank at the bottom bar as well giving the option to highlight do/no follow links; meta tags link reports etc. etc.

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By: Vittorio Bosio

Vittorio Bosio — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:01:48 +0000

Thanks Matt for the explanation.

I am going to install that extension right now!

By: Matt McGee

Matt McGee — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:03:50 +0000

Hi Vittorio,

It’s not just full pages that are cloaked. If you’ve been reading the search blogs lately, there’ve been stories about some people cloaking links — the link is no-followed if Googlebot visits, but not if a regular user visits. That’s just one example of something you see when you switch your user agent to be Googlebot. And as you use it, you’ll see there are a lot of other things going on.

By: Vittorio Bosio

Vittorio Bosio — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:35:18 +0000

Hey Matt,

Great post! I am going to try Link Sleuth right now…

Could I ask you to expand on the User Agent Switcher extension?

Do you use to see if a website is cloaking its pages? I thought cloakers used IPs and not user agents. But maybe I am wrong.

Btw, thanks for mentioning my post.

By: Patrick Schaber

Patrick Schaber — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:31:22 +0000

Excellent post, Matt! Thanks for putting that together. I’m an avid Firefox user, but hadn’t put some of those add-ons in yet. I think alot of people will find this info useful!

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A Beginner’s SEO Toolbox…

This post is mostly for current (and future) clients, so that I have a place to refer them when we talk about what they’ll need to do some SEO-type work on their own….