SEO Link Analysis FireFox Plugin - AWESOME!
A long time ago on this blog I did a few posts about how to use the Google Webmaster Tools to see where your links are coming from and also what anchor text is being used. I have also talked about how to use the Yahoo! Site Explorer to spy on where your competition is getting their links from.
Well, now you can do both of these things from Yahoo! with the SEO Link Analysis plugin by Joost de Valk. One of the problems with the Google Webmaster Tools is that you can’t find out a lot about your competition. But with Yahoo! Site Explorer you could see at least where the links were coming from for anybody. Now with this cool little plugin you can see not only where the links are coming from but also what is the anchor text of the links your competition has. There are multiple uses for this, so use your creativity.
Here’s the link to the plugin: SEO Link Analysis
One heads up. Sometimes when you go to install it, you’ll find that it doesn’t do anything. If this happens to you, do a right click and choose ‘Save Link As…’ and save the file to your desktop. Then open the file using FireFox and it will install the plugin.
I hope that helps!
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on March 1st, 2008 at 2:38 am
Sweet, I have been looking for a good firefox SEO tool. I will have to check it out.
on March 1st, 2008 at 6:04 am
SEO Link Analysis FireFox Plugin
One of the problems with the Google Webmaster Tools is that you can’t find out a lot about your competition. But with Yahoo! Site Explorer you could see at least where the links were coming from for anybody. This one is both.
on March 2nd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
There are quite a few great SEO-related pugins for Firefox. Besides SEO Link Analysis I use SearchStatus.
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on March 3rd, 2008 at 4:12 am
it seems to be interesting, sinc I am fighting against much bigger sites then ours, I will try this tool
on March 3rd, 2008 at 8:31 am
Webbdesign Guy,
That would be great, thanks!
on March 4th, 2008 at 12:38 am
You can also try backlinkwatch.com it includes anchor text, PR, and number of backlinks to the anchor
on March 4th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Well, sounds to be an interesting plugin. I’ll try to install this one, hope it will work well.
on March 6th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
This is a great seo tip and a great plug-in. Being able to see right where competitors are getting their links from plus the anchor text is a huge advantage to getting good rankings faster and easier for your own sites.
on March 7th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I agree this plug-in is awesome. I used to have to manually click on the links to see what is going on! This plug-in saves so much time and is so useful. Looks like someone has some secrets : “There are multiple uses for this, so use your creativity.”
on March 8th, 2008 at 3:15 am
i have checked works pretty good.
Thanks for such a nice tool
Gr8 work keep it up
on March 9th, 2008 at 9:43 am
SEO Link Analysis plugin looks a nice creation. It would now simplify the search program and increase the productivity.
on March 12th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I need all the help I can get!! I am quite new to this business. Thanks
on March 13th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Not only is web site marketing very important, but content management is necessary as well.
Thanks-.
on March 14th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Sounds like a great plugin but when I try to install it, it does nothing. I tried the other method of saving it, but it still does nothing. I do get a username/password prompt when Firefox restarts though… which i disregard and it continues as normal :S
on March 14th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Nice tool!
Gotta love those Firefox plugins.
on March 17th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Been using this plugin for a bit now, and it’s very nice.
on March 19th, 2008 at 7:51 am
This seems to be interesting. I tried to download ’seo for firefox’ from seobook.com, but the link didn’t work. Does anyone know where you can get that plugin?
I think is a great alternative.
on March 19th, 2008 at 11:37 am
So I am a little confused at what it is suppose to do exactly. How will it save me time and give me more information?
on March 19th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
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http://webdesign-news.oribium.net/
Best wishes
on March 20th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I’ve resisted going to FireFox so far as I’ve been complacently content with IE. But, this plug-in sounds too good to pass up. I’ve downloaded it. Now, I’ve got to say a ceremonial goodbye to IE and grit my teeth and make the switch. Thanks for the resource.
on March 22nd, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Thanks for bringing this useful seo tool to our attention!
on March 26th, 2008 at 8:01 am
I’ve been using this tool for some time now, it’s fantastic. You can get invaluable data REALLY quickly, doing a job in seconds that used to take hours. Just watch for your API getting blocked!
on March 26th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
This is an awesome tool. I have been looking for something along these lines for a while now.
on March 27th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Hey thanks for the plugin that is great. It is nice to kill two birds with one stone so to speak.
on March 29th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Wow. Thanks for the resource.Being able to see where competitors are getting their links from plus the anchor text is a huge advantage to getting good rankings faster and easier for your own sites.
on March 30th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Thanks. The plugin looks useful. Just wanted to point out that I think Yahoo is generally much better at finding backlinks because of its “link” and “linkdomain” commands. It’s much better than Google!
on April 1st, 2008 at 3:02 am
Lovely, I have been looking for a good firefox tool. I will have to check it out. Its long since I have opted for it, and thank God I found it. I definetly have to visit this.
on April 1st, 2008 at 7:58 am
I’ve just install this plugin. For the moment, it is usefull, i hope that this program will improve in a future.
on April 1st, 2008 at 8:02 am
I love firefox!
on April 1st, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I had a real hard time getting this plugin installed. I eventually had to wipe FF, clean out all remnants of the original folders and registry entires and reinstall. That did the trick and it works great.
on April 4th, 2008 at 4:53 am
Thanks, this will be a useful addition to SeoQuake and Search Status 1.23 I am currently using
on April 5th, 2008 at 5:55 am
I failed to use that plugin. how can I make that working?
on April 15th, 2008 at 2:37 am
Really a good plugin for SEO. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
on April 19th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I have heard about this plgin from my friends that its working very well and we can get all the SEO link and analysis with that.I think this simply wonderful work by mozilla.
on April 19th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Thanks for the cool tool, I will be using this. I also use another FF SEO plugin, its called SEOTools. Its also very useful, has a ton of features.
on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I’ve used this in the past and found it quite useful, especially for checking supplemental links at the time - however when that became less of an issue, I must have uninstalled it to cut down on my number of extensions as I tend to have a lot running!
on April 24th, 2008 at 9:10 am
this is a great plugin - thanks for the tip.
on April 30th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
That can come in handy, I’m attacking my keyword hard. I want to own my competition.
on May 4th, 2008 at 7:04 am
How’s this different from let’s say SEO Spyglass or similar software?
on May 12th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Thank you very much for this tool. It is very usefull to check my backlinks
on May 20th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Hmm.. Adds 1 to the many uses of Firefox =) Could you come out with a review of how to use it effectively? Great find. Cheers.
on May 23rd, 2008 at 4:22 am
nice seo analyss link
get to used to it
on May 25th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Great and handy tool. Thanks alot for sharing. Will definitely prove useful. Cheers.
on May 26th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Firefox plug-ins are great and always are very helpful for me. I was already looking for such utility.
on May 31st, 2008 at 1:38 am
Thank you for the tip, but what does this do that SEO Quake doesn’t?
Eric Trilastin Sr.
on June 1st, 2008 at 7:54 am
I totally agree with the post. The plug-in is totally amazing it worked wonders for me. i liked it a lot if you haven’t tried it till now . Then try it.
on June 1st, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Im with Marc, I have used it for sometimes now and it is great tools. I recommend readers here to try it. Slightly different with other seo tools.
on June 2nd, 2008 at 4:20 am
This is one of the handiest plugins I have ever found and used for my browser. I recommend it to people all the time.
on June 5th, 2008 at 1:50 am
Have you ever tried SeoQuake Firefox-plugin? It’s really great.
on June 10th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Wow! Thanks a lot for sharing.
on June 11th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Great tool - thanks for the information.
on June 12th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Well, this may be a great plugin, but i hate the fact that my competitors can see where i’m getting my links from. It’s getting to the point where you almost don’t want to get new links just because of that reason…lol.
on June 15th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Thanks for letting us know about this plugin. It’s a great tool that saves tons of time.
on June 18th, 2008 at 12:20 am
I have been using this plugin for some time now. Works great but to analyze links its not really that useful.
on June 20th, 2008 at 2:28 am
I’m not really sure what this does for me, I installed it, but I can’t see changes anyware, can anyone enlighten me?
on June 21st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
why now just use SEOquake
every one already have praised it a LOT
on June 22nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
The best tool ever for finding out what links your competitors have is SEO Elite. You have to buy it, but it’s worth it. You can see every link, every anchor text phrase and more. It’s well worth it
on June 23rd, 2008 at 2:58 am
I love the SEO quake tool. Tells me a lot without having to leave google. But, i will try this tool also!
on June 25th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I am also a user of SEO Quake. Excellent tool when analyzing your competitors.
Look forward to use this new plug in!
on June 28th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Perhaps these are rare Forefox Plug-ins which we can’t find generating an ordinary search. I often browse Firefox’s plugins but couldn’t find there. Thanks for sharing it.
on June 28th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
SEO’s had better hope Yahoo doesn’t do as Google did and mess with their ‘linkdomain:’ query results.
[grins evilly]
on June 29th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
This sounds like a good plugin. Great site by the way keep it up.
on June 30th, 2008 at 5:37 am
I am using SEO for Firefox and that provides a lot of information. I have visited the link in this article and it provides the same. Should I switched? Does someone else has used both and will tell me that which is better?
on July 1st, 2008 at 4:15 am
Thanks for your information , i am looking forward for Firefox seo tool
on July 4th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Very useful info, many thanks.
on July 6th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
When I use firefox I use the SEOquake plugin. It’s a status bar that shows the pagerank, alexa rank, inbound links, sitemap detection, del.icio.us links, keyword density, and more.
on July 12th, 2008 at 12:38 am
It will be very helpful to me for doing SEO of my own website. Thanks for such a nice post.
on July 14th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Sweet or what? Very useful find, thanks a bunch.
on July 15th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Being relatively new to Wordpress blogging and Firefox, I haven’t heard of these types of plug-ins. I’m definitely going to download SEO Link Analysis and SEO Quake mentioned in several of the comments.
Thanks for the info.
on July 17th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Definatly a neat tool, one of my favourite wordpress plugins, this is oen of the reasons i prefer the wordpress platform over other blogging platforms.
on July 21st, 2008 at 8:56 pm
I bet it is an awesome tool, but for the life of me I cannot get it to work… it install and everything… hmmm
on July 22nd, 2008 at 8:36 am
Great find! I will be installing this. Going to be great for Web Development and SEO, lets see it benifit my web developing
on July 24th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Thanks! so far my fave firefox add-on is SEO quake.
on July 28th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Oh its away some, So we have one more options
on July 29th, 2008 at 3:09 am
This is what I need to analyze my site. Thanks for your good work info.
on July 30th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Downloaded and loving it.
By the way you should put the anti spam above the post comment button. I totally missed it.
on August 8th, 2008 at 1:27 am
SEO Link Analysis plugin…?? Hmmm just heard this news from here..,Thank you.., just can’t wait to see the effect of this nice plugin….
on August 9th, 2008 at 9:55 am
I am using it along with a number of other great plugins available. I love the seo plugin for firefox.
on August 13th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Thanks for the tip. I’ve tried it out and it works perfect. I have it running now next to the seo firefox plugin.
on August 17th, 2008 at 8:50 am
thanks for the tip buddy.. I\’ll go to check it out
Firefox is the best
(The plugin too…)
on August 17th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
That is a good plugin. There are some other ones out there, and they are certainly useful for finding where you can build your backlinks.
on August 18th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Yes this plugin is great. I just downloaded it and tested it. Still need to find out what all I can analyze. This is a must for any firefox user.
on August 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Awesome! I’m checking this out now. I’ve read about checking out where competition’s links are coming from, but I did not know about how to check on the keywords.
I have an seo plugin installed in firefox now, but it does not do what the one you’ve mentioned here does.
Thanks!
on August 26th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Thanks, it’s a good post…
Hank Jacob,