Comments on: Conducting Competitive Intelligence Using Search Status: A Search Extension for Firefox

By: private label rights

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By: Mark Hayes

Mark Hayes — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:58:21 +0000

Hi Yara,

Very interesting article. We (a two man business) are just getting started in the field of SEO and web design in Limerick Ireland.

Needless to say, we found your article to be very intersting and quite an eye-opener. All too often, we have found ourselves unable to explain to clients and or potential clients, why competitors seem to know exactly why they are performing well in the major search engines.

We would never have guessed, that a free browser extension could reveal such a wealth of information so simply. Are there any more bits and bobs or free tools we could try? We have just begun looking at wordtracker but the phrase “too much information” comes to mind…

All the best from Ireland

Mark Hayes

Are there any more

By: How To Boost Your Alexa Ranking In One Easy Step » Internet Business Blog | Entrepreneurs-Journey.com - by Yaro Starak

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:22:20 +0000

[...] As Blaine Moore pointed out in a comment made to my previous AlexaRank article, it is easy to – as he put it – “game” the AlexaRank if you have a tool that checks AlexaRank installed on your computer, and that doesn’t have to be just the toolbar, it can be for a FireFox extension like SearchStatus, which I recently installed on my browser. These tools send data to Alexa, and when Alexa receives any data about your surfing habits it will raise the traffic rankings for the sites you provide data for – and if you visit your own sites often you can raise your ranking. [...]

By: How Does AlexaRank Work And Should We Care About It? » Internet Business Blog | Entrepreneurs-Journey.com - by Yaro Starak

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 03:01:27 +0000

[...] I have a confession to make. Ever since I installed the SearchStatus extension into my FireFox browser I have discovered a new addiction to go right along with my healthy love for PageRank – it’s close cousin, AlexaRank. In this case the bar is blue, and unlike PageRank the statistic AlexaRank represents has more to do with traffic and reach than search engine ranking authority or incoming links, but like PageRank is probably best interpreted as a “fun tool” rather than a definitive way to evaluate a website. [...]

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:30:26 +0000

Thanks for letting us know about that firefox extension. Really needed that, cause I got tired of opening IE7.

By: Sucker

Sucker — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:31:49 +0000

Ohhh… the nofollow highlighter sounds like the best part! This toolbar will be a nice addition to my collection, right up there with “Web Developer Toolbar” for checking the source and css and other cool stuff.

By: Ross Johnson

Ross Johnson — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:33:18 +0000

This is also a very useful tool for finding backlinks. I always check a competitor’s backlinks, many times you can find more directories, exchanges, etc simply by looking where other people are headed to get the links.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:40:31 +0000

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention – the Search Status extension also provides a nofollow highlighting tool which you can use to see what links on pages are not passing on any search engine ranking – it really opens your eyes when you start browsing around and see how many links don’t count in the eyes of the search engines.