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We recently added an SEO X-ray feature to SEO for Firefox. You must use Firefox 3.0 or above to see these features, but if you want to see...
- how the on page optimization of any page looks (headings, meta description, page title)
- the keyword density of the page and popular phrases on the page
- how many links point into a page (total links, or links from external resources)
- how many links point out of a page (as well as the anchor text of these links, nofollow vs follow, internal vs external - all exportable in CSV format)
then this new feature makes it quick and easy to do all of that. Simply right click on the page you are viewing, scroll down to SEO for Firefox, and click on SEO X-ray.
That will show you an overlay on the screen like this
We are planning on doing another update in the next couple days, and may add...
- the IP address of the site (and links to other sites on the same IP address)
- character and word counts for page title and meta description body content
- a link to the domain tools overview page for the associated site
If you are using Firefox 3 and SEO for Firefox please give this a try and let us know what you think.
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Thanks for the update Aaron! Looks really good so far. I'm off to test it some more.
Hey there Aaron ;)
What about featuring also a Nofollow link count, possibly splitted up between internal/external?
I used to have a plugin to do that (not splitting BTW), but it no longer works in FF3... this would be the feature that would make me click on the "Install" button (again).
Great plugin indeed.
Yours,
Maurizio
This is a topic the developer and I were debating on...we were not sure if it would be better to add more of that information directly in the interface and have it a bit more cluttered, or having it available in a single downloadable file. Looks like you are voting for putting it in the interface directly then, eh?
After he works through adding a few other things we will probably look into this area again and try to add more of this information directly to the box.
Thanks for the feedback Maurizio!
I just downloaded it and it works nice. I think I will use this instead of Search Status plugin.
Do the SEO profile queries load faster for anyone else?
I like how it helps build the link profile of the websites that are linking to a site. I recently wrote a post on the neighbourhood of your neighbours...which is hammered home by the presence of this tool.
Great tool for free - thanks!
Ben M
Aaron,
Thank you for making a great tool even better.
This FF plugin is one of the ones I am featuring in a in a new series of Competitive Intelligence reports I have coming out shortly.
Most folks are not aware of the power you hand them with this. Let's hope they do use it for Good.
Thanks again,
Sam
Glad you like it Sam. Thanks for the kind words and the mention! :)
Great tool. Thanks for adding this. I did notice that if you run it on a Flash site that is embedded in JavaScript that the results display under the Flash.
Other than that great tool!
Thanks!
I really cant wait to share this with my workmates.
Thanks
Awesome as always, Aaron. Thanks!
Great improvement on this tool... but how do I turn it off once it's started on a page?
the lower right corner of the gray shadow box has a link that says "close".
I'm not saying... I'm just saying, your updates are more than impressive.
Thank you Aaron wall. I have been using your tool for long and it really helped me a lot. This update which i installed doesn't work for me it just brings up a black screen in front of the page but nothing in it.Please help me fix this. Is that any other add on causing this problem? Just can't figure out.
There are over 100,000 installs, so odds are that there is some conflicting extension or something. can you try uninstalling and reinstalling seo for firefox and see if that helps you out?
That's a very quick reply wow!
I uninstalled and reinstalled the add on but still I'm having the same problem.I'm having fire fox 3.03. Any more suggestions.
Aaron i have a similar issue with Javid. However the black screen doesn't show up at all. It goes directly to the webpage with the overlay data, that i have selected, from the tool (headers, alt, links etc.). I have just installed Firefox 3.0.3 on Windows
could you guys maybe do a screen capture of the experience and upload it to youtube?
Hello Aaron
I have uploaded a screen capture of this problem here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF1UNICpc_c
Hope helpful
Did the issue happen only on pages with flash installed or on all pages? Do you have any other extensions installed?
The issue occurred on all pages regardless of flash installed or not.
Yes of course I have installed various extensions.
Hi Aaron
Now i found that the seo for firefox xray feature works fine for me . I thought I should report it to you. Since I had no time, its been so delayed.
Once again, thank you for your quick help.
Great, and I do mean Great!, Tool you've provided to the SEO community for free here Aaron.
You never cease to amaze.
Well done, Aaron! The X-ray is a really useful new feature!
Guys who have issues with Seo XRay, could you be more specific? Does it break on every page or on some particular pages? Could you give some examples where it breaks, what version of FireFox you use and what OS?
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for the SEO rank checker tool. I've been using it for the past month without any issues. Recently, I installed the latest version of Firefox 3.03 and noticed that Rank Checker no longer reports any of the Google data although Yahoo information seems to be just fine. Any thoughts on how to fix this error? Any help would be useful as I've become highly dependent on the tool.
Thanks!
I am not sure what is causing that issue, as I am using 3.0.3 and it works on my computer whenever I test it.
The new seo x-ray feature wasn't working for me. It would just gray out the screen but would otherwise provide no data. Turns out if was conflicting with my Flashblock plug-in, disabled Flashblock and I'm golden. HTH.
Very nice addition.
Great tools - thank you.
I checked a few websites that I know have external links
and each one showed external links in gray pop up.
But when I exported the list, there were no backlinks
in export.
In another cases where I did find links they don't come close to match the Y!page links given by SEO plugin
Using the latest versions of Firefox and SEO plugin.
PS - I did recognize that that the external link count in
xray omits external links from the same root domain.
This is a fantastic tool which I've been using very happily and successfully since it came out. It works on 99% of sites that I have come across. However, I've just started working for a new company and I can't for the life of me get it to work with our site: http://www.stockshifters.com
I was wondering, could there be some specific website code which is specific to our site which is causing SEO Xray to fail? When I say 'fail', the error is identical to those described above: screen is overlayed grey, h tags and links etc. are all highlighted, but the usual 'results' box that should float over the top of the page does not appear.
Is our site cursed with bad code? If anyone has any ideas on how to solve this I'd be really grateful.
Cheers,
Elliott
Hi Elliot
I am not sure what is causing that. Our programmer is working on another tool at the moment, but if you ping in about a month we might be able to dig in and try to fix whatever is causing that.
I have updated the SEO for Firefox and yet I cannot see the SEO xray option when i right click it.. I have Firefox 2.0 version..
Sorry but SEO Xray only works on Firefox 3. We could have put it in Firefox 2, but it would have looked a bit buggy...and then we would have been showered with complaints for that.
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