We decided that we should start a series of Firefox Extentions articles on BandwidthBlog and will start today. The first one to be reviewed is Search Status by Quirk.

The best thing about the Firefox Search Status add-on is that it won’t interfere with the pages you load, won’t eat memory or slow down your connection. It stays in your browser bar and shows you the PageRank, Alexa Rank and Compete Rank of the website you’re visiting. It also features a keyword density analyzer, highlights no-follow links, makes link report, meta-tags, whois for the domain, shows you the robots.txt file, shows indexed pages and backward links. You can view all of these by a simple right mouse button click.

For a search engine marketer these are incredible powerful tools, and if you plan to do SEO on your own it’s a must. It looks like this:

So far I haven’t heard any complaints about Search Status by Quirk. Let us know if you used it, if it was useful or if you had trouble with it. Download it from their website.

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