SeoQuake for Windows

You can dig deep into the rankings of search results with SeoQuake, a free toolbar that can help you determine how to better position your Web site and marketing efforts. Analyze page ranks, number of links, and many more details as you unearth a treasure trove of data about site domains and pages.

SeoQuake installs a colorful, data-packed toolbar to Firefox's window. The icons and numbers will be unintelligible to the uninformed user, but users skilled in SEO techniques will immediately appreciate the wealth of detail this add-on provides. Click on any of the toolbar icons while visiting a site, and you'll instantly open a page with details about number of visitors and their country--and in some cases, city--of origin, the site's traffic history trended on a graph, and more. The toolbar includes buttons for a site's Google page rank and index, Yahoo links and link domains, MSN index, Alexa ranks, Web archive age, Delicious index, and a link to the Whois page.

In our tests, this free tool performed excellently. It responded quickly to our clicks, and delivered a wealth of information--including stuff we didn't even think about before checking out this application. We also liked that its reports occasionally included links to tips on how to improve a site's rankings. We recommend this application to anyone with an interest in promoting their to a wider audience.