I downloaded and intalled SEOQuake as an add-on for FireFox and wondering if anyone else uses it? Reason being, I type in a competitor's site and see the age of the site, the page rank, whois info and all the rest. But, how am I to make that info benefit MY site?
You use it to analyze keywords before targeting them, not to benefit your site after it's published. Go to Google and do a search, it displays PR, backlinks, edu backlinks, age, etc. of the listings on the page. It'll give you a quick snapshot of how difficult it will be to rank for that keyword. If it doesn't show the info you have to enable it. It's been so long since I've used that I forget how to do that. But be aware that you have to adjust a few settings or Google will temporarily disable it or block you if you do a lot of searches. I've also heard that sometimes it won't work properly if you upgrade to the latest Firefox version. BTW you might also want to install the SearchStatus addon.
Thanks Bob...I don't quite understand SEOQuake then. I mean, I have it installed on FF however, if I am to use it for analyzing keywords, is that not what Google's KEYWORD TOOL is for? I assumed SEOQuake was simply a tool to use in conjunction with FF whereby you have Google as your search function, and search out sites, open them and when they appear then SEOQuake shows all the inbound liks to the site in question, the age of the site in question, the page rank of that site and so forth. As for giving a quick snapshot of how difficult it'd be to rank for a certain keyword, I'm not certain where in the toolbar I'd nav....wondering if anyone else has used it? Thanks for your time / feedback
Actually I think that all you might need to do is have it turned on and do a search for your keyword. You should be able to see the info of all ten sites at once, which makes it easier to determine how difficult the keyword would be to rank. I remember I had to turn something on once before the info displayed. The Google keyword tool gives you the search numbers and CPC. The competition is for advertiser competition and not competing number of sites. Although they tend to kind of mirror each other. A lot of people say to put quotes ("keyword") when doing a search to find the competition, but a better way is to analyze the first page in the SERPs. That is if the searchengines will be your main traffic source. I assume that's why you want to check the competition?
SEOQuake does NOT benefit your website - it benefits your SEO efforts because it shows a lot of information about your own site and the sites of your competition. I find it quite useful and use it mainly as a quick-and-dirty solution for initial competition assessment before drilling down on the details of the dompetition and setting up my own SEO strategy. I would strongly recommend that you read first the SEOQuake guide. It outlines all the information that this toolbar provides you. If after reading you have doubts about what to do with this information, I strongly recommend that you take a basic SEO course.
You can put-on switch on only those open of SEOquake which are in your use only. Because there are many tool option there which we don't use ever and don't really need them.
Yes, i always use the tools provided by SEO quale as this is one of the good site to share these tools.
I am using SEO to track if my site is indexed and cached and how is the PR of the site it help me also to choose where to link indeed it helps me a lot for the evaluation of my site.
SEO Quake help me a lot evaluating my site whether search engines indexed my site or not and is my site cached by Google regularly.