This looks like a great tool to quickly evaluate websites. The SEO Firefox extension includes:
PR: (Google PageRank) an estimated measure of global link authority
Age: age pulled from Archive.org, shows the first time a page was indexed by Archive.org’s spider. The theory is that if Archive.org found a page so did many of the major search engines.
Links: (Yahoo! linkdomain) shows a rough estimate of the total number of links pointing at a domain
.edu Link: (Yahoo! .edu linkdomain ) shows a rough estimate of the total number of .edu links pointing at a domain
.edu Page Link: (Yahoo! .edu link ) shows a rough estimate of the total number of .edu links pointing at a specific page
.gov Link: (Yahoo! .gov linkdomain ) shows a rough estimate of the total number of .gov links pointing at a domain
Page Links: (Yahoo! link) shows a rough estimate of the total number of links pointing at a page
del.icio.us: number of times a URL has been bookmarked on Del.icio.us. Heavily skewed toward techy / Web 2.0 stuff.
Technorati: an estimate of the total number of links to a site from blogs
Alexa: rank based on website traffic . Heavily skewed toward internet marketing and webmaster related resources.
Cached: (Google site:) shows how many pages from a site are indexed in Google
dmoz: searches the Google Directory to count the total number of pages from a site that are listed in DMOZ, and the total number of pages listed in DMOZ that reference that URL.
Bloglines: shows you how many people are subscribed to a particular blog via Bloglines.
dir.yahoo.com: is a site listed in the Yahoo! Directory or not.
WhoIs: makes it easy to look up the whois data for any site.
This Cool Firefox Extension is brought to you by Aaron Wall, the man who wrote the book on SEO.
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This one is also very handy.
Except both extensions don’t appear to work at the same time…..
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Although this sounds cool and I will be downloading it and checking it out. I have a few thoughts, one Firefox isn’t my main browser, and by most estimates it isn’t the main browser for the majority of people online too, so I have to hope some of these extensions eventually become tools useable with other browsers.
Secondly this is very US centric. I know when the US were giving out IP addresses they gave themselves something like 75% but the web is so much bigger now and .gov and .edu links don’t mean a lot in say China or Japan. All the other services it checks are American too for the most part. Soon China will have the most people online and although about half of them seem to use Google the other half use Baidu. Eventually tools like this are going to have to become a lot less US centric if they want to reflect the true value of a domain. In Asia lots of domains that would be discounted here as worthless are hugely popular places like: 163.com, 3721.com, 126.com, 265.com etc. The popularity of domain names that are just numbers is partly due to ease of remembering but also due to how the numbers are pronounced in Chinese and what other words sound the same or very close to these numbers. With the exception of 411.com there aren’t many numbers only domains, I mean where do you stuff the keywords?
Maybe Alexa and Google Pagerank are enough but I’m not so sure anymore having live in China now, all these examples are Chinese and in Alexa in the China report FWIW. In China they have a .edu.cn subdomain and other countries do something similar but Canada where I live does not, the major universities are done like so ubc.ca Of course California has more people than Canada but I’ve always questioned the overweighting of the value of .edu links It is true universities are lazy and the link may never be changed but a lot of students and staff can put up their own pages on something like http://sitemaker.umich.edu/ that would have a .edu link but how valuable is it really?
Muskie