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SEO-Quake: website analysis in half a second
October 15th, 2008I took the weird habit of analyzing every single website I go to. I do it because it’s so easy with the SEO-Quake Firefox toolbar (also available for IE…?). This toolbar contains a lot of useful information that get automatically updated when you visit a website and you can do a quick analysis of a website’s popularity within only a couple of seconds.
What’s in SEO-Quake?
What’s better than an example? I took a screen shot of the toolbar while visiting ShoeMoney and broke it down in different parts (Shoe is my website of choice when it comes to examples I know…).
For statistics lover like me, we get this part of the toolbar:
From left to right we have
- PR: PageRank
- I: Number of indexed pages in Google
- L: Number of links pointing to that that SINGLE page
- LD: Link Domain, which is the total number of backlinks for the domain
- I: Number of pages indexed in MSN
- Rank: Alexa Rank
In a fraction of seconds, you can see if the website you visit is a serious website. I particularly like the Alexa Rank and the number of backlinks. These are usually good indicators of a website popularity. I know I wrote about the Alexa ranking and how it is inaccurate sometimes, but it’s still a good metric.
Then, we have some other interesting options:
From left to right we have:
- Age: domain age (which ShoeMoney blocks so that’s why we don’t see it.)
- I: The Delicious Index or the number of times the page was bookmarked on delicious.
- whois: The domain’s whois information.
The domain age is provided by The web archive and the button will bring you to the domain’s history.
Finally, some very useful options for your own website:
Source will of course bring you the source code of the page and it is very useful to access the page’s source code faster. Then we have Internal links and External links: Internal links is the number of links on the current page linking to the same domain and External links is the number of links on the current page linking to an external domain. This can be quite useful when you want to control your precious link juice! Finally, a feature I really enjoy to do keyword optimization is the density feature. This feature will give you a lot of information about the keywords on the page:
This way, you can optimize your keywords by checking how many time each of them appears on the page. The keyword density tool can go to 4 keywords phrases, which is really cool because we don’t necessarily always target individual keywords.
Get SEO-Quake
So that’s it, I use this toolbar all the time and check it for every site I visit. It’s a little addictive to be honest and I feel like I’m missing something when I’m on a computer that doen’t have the toolbar. It’s free so there really is no reasons not to try it 
Get it here.
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Excellent Seo Toolbar.. Will use it in future
@Barabara: Glad you like it.
Wow that toolbar really sports a lot of features. I will try it soon. Does it work with all versions of Firefox or just the latest?
I fear this would add to my already extensive procrastination time at work
Maybe a home plugin only 
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@Roger: Good questino you’re raising there. I was using it before on Firefox 2.0, but since 3.0 was released I don’t know…
@Clog Money: haha it’s so addictive, like always going through every stats
If you stay to the basic it’s really half a second, otherwise it might be worth to make it a home plugin only hehe.
Good info. Thanks for passing the word along.
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Wow, thanks for the information! I’m always interested in little gadgets like this, cheers!
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@Dan & Dan
: Thanks guys, I’m glad you liked!
Thanks a lot, Ben! Just what I needed….another tool to feed my stat addiction. LOL!!!
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Haha, this stats addiction is crazy
Thank-you! I can’t wait to play with this new toy! It will help me keep track of my blog as it is growing too.
~K
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Ben,
I am going to have to stay away from this one. I am too worried about my own stats and spend to much time on them. If I started spending time looking at other peoples stats I will never get anything done at all.
Adam
@K. Fields: Cool, enjoy this little tool mate!
@Adam: I understand. I wrote a post some while ago about how stats could definitively kill your productivity. Smart choice if you know it won’t help you.
Sweet. I use a combo of a few plugins right now to get PageRank, Compete Rank and Alexa rank, but this plugin looks like its about to be my new replacement.
Thanks for sharing, I’m off to download it now
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@Alex: Cool! There’s a lot of other stuff in the plugin, but I disabled most of them because I didn’t need them.
Alexa rank is nuts.
I also wonder how search enginges count links. For my blog Google shows 400+ backlinks in stats and Yahoo shows 7000+.
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I honestly don’t have a clue what this backlink algorithm is based on. Might do a little research on that…
Looks cool , I wonder its authenticity
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I’m so glad that someone else appreciates this toolbar as much as I do. SEO Quake makes it so easy to check the stats on any blog you visit. I also love the keyword feature, so you can keep tabs on keywords like MarketLeverage. Great post!
Hey, great to see MarketLeverage staff commenting in here
I’m not using the keyword feature to be honest, but I’ll definitely check it out if you suggest to use it 
Thanks for dropping a comment!
I’ve been using seo quake since December last year and it serves me well. using yahoo link domain you can tail on a good sites for their backlinks.
however I wanted to know the details of its parameters on how to set it up to have the best results. can you give us some advice Ben.
thanks a lot!
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Installed and WOW. I can’t wait until I want to start advertising…stats at a glance!
Almost a perfect substitute for the Google toolbar, except no AutoFill button….a nifty little time saver.
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Good stuff Dennis, I’m happy you tried it and now find it useful!
@jigs: Hey haven’t seen you around for a while! To be honest I’m not a “Guru” of SEO Quake. It’s packed with TONS of features, but I mainly just use the toolbar. Maybe I should try to play with the other settings…
SEO Tool bar very interesting. Density was eye opening. Good blog, lots of good advice. Keep up the good work.
Seoquake is very good seo tool, but I also use seostatus. Its very good and have many other features also.
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@SEO: Thanks for that suggestion!
Yeah seoquake is very useful. Especially Firefox.
hmm, I installed the tool bar and shortly there after ie kept freezing. I uninstalled the tool bar and the uninstall took my google toolbar with it. My ie freezes stopped immediately. I don’t know what combination of software didn’t like the tool bar. Tsk, cause the tool bar looked very useful but I don’t feel like trying to identify where the incompatibility lies.
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@W. Bentrim: That’s why you have to use Firefox!
This program is quite useful because it provides such extensive analysis of one’s domain. It puts together many different services in one, but one would wonder if it is as reliable as each of the services would be on their own. The keyword analysis is a plus.
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This is brilliant stuff. Thanks Ben…this solves the problem of figuring out websites to find this information
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I’d been so busy last few weeks Ben .Looking for Travel sites as our partners. but I’ll be visiting here if I will have a spare time.
Well I’m glad that frogstr is doing great! more power to you man.
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am dowload the toolbar…so i can analysis right away on every page of my website.thanks
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I just downloaded it for my firefox browser, the tool is absolutely amazing. It’s a little cluttered on google search now, but it’s well worth it because of all the features. Really helps you if you are a webmaster, big time!
I used to have one in FF before but it only had google and alexa, this one looks like it’s worth a try thanks!
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@Erick: You can disable that Google feature, I actually have it disabled.
@Andy: No problems my friend! Thanks for dropping a comment here!
I just try this addon on my Firefox 3, I like the feature but I dont like the layout…
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How to disable it?
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I had this plugin but I disabled it later. The toolbar takes up most of the space.
I agree that its an awesome tool. I especially like the keyword density tool.
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I agree with @seo. I used both seoquake and seostatus and both at my firefox browser. I found seostatus really great as it has many new features that i did not find at seoquake. But i did not find the option to check the IP location of sites. Can you please help me in that?
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I am using this software in my system.So useful one.I like very much.
I am also using this software.Very useful for all.Do you know any other software like this?
Nice post. Just discovered this blog – new to me in 2009 – so I’ll be coming back for more useful comment. Happy new year to all
SEO Quake is a really nice tool for SEO professionals
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Seo quake is very good tool.I am using that tool.Its giving lot of information very quickly.
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Have you heard about this: http://www.serpanalytics.com/
Seoquake is a great tool for SEO analysis, I used it gor a long time. I now use the SERPAnalytics service instead of seoquake for my SEO work
I am using this Seoquake tool for Keyword Analysis.. In the 'found in' section there are a number of different letters, i.e T, K, D.. I cannot locate any information to clarify what these letters stand for.. This post is the closest thing I could find. Does anyone know please? Thanks
T: Title
D: Description
K: Keyword