SEO Extension for Firefox

flood6 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-01-2005, 02:42 AM

I just finished an SEO extension for Firefox called SEOpen. It is fairly simple right now, but I have some plans for the future once my skill catches up to my ambition...

Basically you can check Google cache, Google backlinks, Yahoo backlinks, keyword density, PR, and a little more via right-click.

You can read more and download the extension here. Feel free to contact me with bugs and feature requests, I'll add them to my "to do" list and try to knock them out as I learn a little more about what I'm doing...

wednesday · #2 (**permalink**) 02-11-2005, 09:17 PM

I just wanted to say that you've build an excellent tool. It saves me a lot of precious time. Carry on!

Martin

flood6 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-07-2005, 12:16 AM

Thanks Martin, I'm glad you liked it.

I just finished an update. New features include:

Wayback Machine (Archive.org, called "Archives" in the extension)
Ability to check robots.txt (works on sub-domains, too)
Google "site:" search (lists all pages in Google\'s index for the domain)
Yahoo "site:" search (lists all pages in Yahoo\'s index for the domain)
Whois info
Cleaner code

I tested it on Firefox 1.0 and 1.0.1 on Linux and Windows. Again, read all about it here.

collusion · #4 (**permalink**) 03-07-2005, 12:34 AM

lol, you can tell you are a programmer because of the \ when you post with a '

Any chance for a tool for IE?

flood6 · #5 (**permalink**) 03-07-2005, 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by collusion

lol, you can tell you are a programmer because of the \ when you post with a '

Any chance for a tool for IE?

LOL, PHP on the brain!

I've actually been thinking more about starting to tinker with stuff for Windows (I can hear the linux users cringing). Modifing IE is of course much harder (and often not legal), but I've been thinking about a desktop app for Windows and Linux that uses the Google and Yahoo APIs.

seo4u · #6 (**permalink**) 03-07-2005, 01:52 AM

I've just installed it on my firefox browser.

I do lotta SEO for my clienst. guess this would save me lotta time and money

;)

SteveF · #7 (**permalink**) 03-07-2005, 05:31 AM

Great tool
A great time saver

Nice one!!

wednesday · #8 (**permalink**) 03-12-2005, 12:08 AM

When I come across a new site for me, the first thing to do is a 'right click'. Great tool! Hope there are more features to come soon. Is there something I can cooperate - beta testing, or anything?

Thanks again,
Martin

garbageaccount · #9 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 12:24 PM

I love it...this is a real time saver great work.

flood6 · #10 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 01:26 PM

I'm glad it's being put to good use.

Martin, thanks for the offer to help! This isn't really a brains-type of operation, the biggest help comes from bug reports and feature requests. Also, when you find an online tool that you like to use for SEO, send me a url and I'll see if there is a way to implement it.

Cheers!

cyanide · #11 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 02:43 PM

cool, damian..
didn't realize you were so talented (wink) lol

gonna test-drive it now

flood6 · #12 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 03:07 PM

You should see me concurrently pat my head and rub my tummy-tum.

Lydia · #13 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 06:27 PM

Really cool tool, thanks for putting it out there.
May you be rewarded a hundredfold :)

jackit_chick · #14 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 06:31 PM

OK I downloaded that extension...now how do I use it???

aventvoy · #15 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 06:33 PM

Definitely a great tool.
If this is not a useful one, well I wonder which one is!
Thanks a lot for this!
Alain
http://www.aventurevoyages.com

compusolver · #16 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 06:54 PM

The Page Rank link doesn't seem to be working right. All I get is a page from 1-hit.com with a banner at the top and the rest is blank.

I tried it on three different domains.

Do I need another pot of coffee, or is something down/broken somewhere?

designer.aus · #17 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 07:30 PM

Hi all
This extension would be a great one for me, but how so i install it into firefox 1?

I have the extension on my desktop...whats next?

Thanks

flood6 · #18 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by compusolver

The Page Rank link doesn't seem to be working right. All I get is a page from 1-hit.com with a banner at the top and the rest is blank.

Yeah, the site that provides that tool is flakey. Finding a better way to handle PR is on the "to do" list.

Also, if there's a Mozilla user in the house, can you try it out and let me know if it works with the suite?

pacole3 · #19 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 07:50 PM

Tried downloading the tool, but the link seems to be unresponsive.

stephfoster · #20 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 08:07 PM

I just installed it on Netscape 7.2. Looks like it works fine.

G[dot]com · #21 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 08:16 PM

Excellent! I was looking forward to having a tool like this for my firefox.

Thanks for sharing this-. And congratulations! GReat job.

roban · #22 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 08:58 PM

Now Firefox is complete. I used the SEO Toolbar on IE. Thanks for the work and for sharing.

roban · #23 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 08:59 PM

Now Firefox is complete. I use to use the SEO Toolbar on IE and missed it. Thanks for the work and for sharing.

mushroom · #24 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by G[dot

com]Excellent! I was looking forward to having a tool like this for my firefox.

Thanks for sharing this-. And congratulations! GReat job.

Nicely said keep up the good work flood6

And nice to see your still around G[dot]com

shoi · #25 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 09:40 PM

can i just suggest you recode the download so the popup blocker doesn't object

Steve

Manpasand · #26 (**permalink**) 03-14-2005, 10:32 PM

GREAT job!!!

Now I can find everything in one tool...

kservik · #27 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005, 12:32 AM

Great work, flood6!

designer.aus · #28 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005, 03:41 AM

Hi all
Obviously you have all enjoyed the ease of this new tool, but for those of us who would love to join your ranks, can someone please tell me how i instal this program?

I downloaded an .xpi file. Is that the right file and is it self insatlling to add it to Firefox. I would appreciate any assistance anyone can give.

Thanks

flood6 · #29 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005, 10:09 AM

If you downloaded SEOpen03.xpi, push ctrl+o, navigate to the xpi and double-click on it. You may need to make sure you are able to see "all files" when looking for the xpi.

Restart Firefox.

Good luck.

aventvoy · #30 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005, 01:14 PM

Hi Flood6,
Just to let you know I tried to instal your SEOpen on a second computer, and this morning I got an error message, yesterday it worked fine...
Alain

ocean · #31 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005, 04:44 PM

Excellent tool, well done..

I especially like the links to the HTML Validator and WhoIs tools.

The HTML Validator makes it so much quicker to check multiple pages on a site.

tony · #32 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005, 06:42 PM

Nice tool...the only problem is NOW I know exactly where I stand and how much more work I need to do...THANKS!

montytx · #33 (**permalink**) 03-15-2005, 08:02 PM

Great tool, keep up the good work. I wouldnt waste my time with IE. It will be obsolete in 6 mos.

sjk · #34 (**permalink**) 03-17-2005, 05:42 PM

I really love this tool, super work and great idea!

I have a suggeston for you though. The Google PR checker using 1-hit.com takes forrreeeever to load. Might I suggest using PHP Google PageRank Calculator Script? It can be downloaded in zip here:

http://www.googlecommunity.com/scripts/pagerank.zip

I'm not sure maybe you can upload it to like a tripod account or just point it to POST on their form on their page:

http://www.googlecommunity.com/scrip...e-pagerank.php

I use the script on one of my sites - it works great and loads fast so thought I'd mention it.

Another idea I had too, you might be able to integrate it somehow... Its encoded but at the end of the php file, he has invited people to ask for use of the code base:

// Want the source code? Don't be shy!
// For source code please email technician@gmail.com
// Subject: PHP PageRank Script Source Request
// Include your name, URL to your site, and what you'll be using this code for

Food for thought. Great job though!

flood6 · #35 (**permalink**) 03-17-2005, 06:04 PM

Thanks everyone, I'm glad so many people are putting it to good use.

I am working on a new PR check. I actually built one myself using that googlecommunity script you mentioned, sjk. The problem is I can get it working on a test site, but not on the production site. PHP's file() function seems to be causing the problem; it seems to be disabled by my host for security reasons, but the other site on the same host seems to be working fine. I'm going to try and run php as cgi on the site and see if it will work that way. I'll figure something out.

But even that's just temporary, I'm trying to get the page's PR to display in the right-click menu, but I want to set up the options to disable this if you choose so it doesn't slow down too much for guys on slower connections.

I'm going to release a new version in a few days. I made the "site:" searches a little better, added MSN, google related, google's translate to english, changed the whois to whois.sc, and some code improvements.

Thanks again for everyone's support, I'll post here when the new version is done.

wednesday · #36 (**permalink**) 03-17-2005, 06:31 PM

I think that right click SEO tool is just a great idea.

Martin

designer.aus · #37 (**permalink**) 03-17-2005, 06:54 PM

Hi Flood6
Im getting frustrated with the instal of this script. I tried the ctrl+o and nothing happened and I tried double clicking it and it asks me to select a program to open it. I dont know what program to use to open it.

I must be pretty stupip if I cant open and instal a scipt. I have now associated another program to the xpi extension and I cant remember how to re-associate it.

Any help will be very much appreciated.

flood6 · #38 (**permalink**) 03-17-2005, 07:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by designer.aus

Hi Flood6
Im getting frustrated with the instal of this script. I tried the ctrl+o and nothing happened and I tried double clicking it and it asks me to select a program to open it. I dont know what program to use to open it.

I must be pretty stupip if I cant open and instal a scipt. I have now associated another program to the xpi extension and I cant remember how to re-associate it.

Any help will be very much appreciated.

You're hitting "ctrl+o" when you're in firefox, right? Like you're reading this, just hit ctrl+o, right now. Alternatively, go to "File->Open File" Then navigate to where you saved the xpi.

I hope that helped.

sjk · #39 (**permalink**) 03-17-2005, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flood6

Thanks everyone, I'm glad so many people are putting it to good use.

I am working on a new PR check. I actually built one myself using that googlecommunity script you mentioned, sjk. The problem is I can get it working on a test site, but not on the production site. PHP's file() function seems to be causing the problem; it seems to be disabled by my host for security reasons, but the other site on the same host seems to be working fine. I'm going to try and run php as cgi on the site and see if it will work that way. I'll figure something out.

But even that's just temporary, I'm trying to get the page's PR to display in the right-click menu, but I want to set up the options to disable this if you choose so it doesn't slow down too much for guys on slower connections.

I'm going to release a new version in a few days. I made the "site:" searches a little better, added MSN, google related, google's translate to english, changed the whois to whois.sc, and some code improvements.

Thanks again for everyone's support, I'll post here when the new version is done.

That's great! Wow, what a connection.

Can you use readfile() instead or do you need to return the array with file()? That's weird that your host has one server with file() enabled and your production server has file() disabled. Maybe the problem is with PHP on your production server and it needs to be recompiled? I would try to get them to fix it if you haven't already before using the alternative method of running it as cgi. Good luck :)

Again, great work! I can't wait to see the new release; the new PR checker is going to be the shizzzznit.