Last November, the web giant had warned it would pull the plug on the project, telling Wave users they would be able to access the service in a read-only version only from January 31 through April 30 of this year.
The browser plug-in for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari allowed users to highlight words or phrases and bring up search results including videos, news, and images in a small pop-up window. Apture's biggest offering, the Apture Highlights browser plug...
For personal use, enable Digg as an option in the Shareaholic browser plug-in (available for IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and more browsers. Although many consider Digg dead and buried, check out these recent worthwhile enhancements that just...
Digg Digg (WordPress Plug-in) The W3C HTML Validation Markup Service and HTML Validator Firefox Add-on are handy tools to audit your code. Similar to SEO, there are on-page specific factors. This guide reviews the benefits, factors, and checkpoints...
Although we've been discussing the Plug-In version, should you find yourself with a Google Apps account and would like to role this functionality out to everyone in your company you can do so by enabling Rapportive via the Google Apps Marketplace.
You can do this simply by text, or by using a plug-in for your browser called WiseStamp that allows you to create a graphical signature including your social media icons as well as links to your website.
Multitudes of Firefox and Chrome plug-ins can show you PageRank, inlinks, and more. It isn't uncommon to see multiple people pull out their iPad for notetaking or to a review a website during a meeting.
Top-10 SEO FirefoxPlug-ins - State of Search Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Jan.to 22, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
If you don't have access to Google Webmaster Tools for your site, there are several Firefoxplug-ins and extensions you can use to gain insight into where programming improvements could be made. Easily allow for adding social media widgets and/or...
Toolbars and Browser Plug-ins SEO Quake -- The granddaddy of SEO browser plug-ins, the primary "must-have" feature of this tool is an extremely powerful overlay of parameters that influence SEO success, right on top of those SERPs.
We deleted all cookies, and the browsers had no history or plug-ins installed. Four browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome) Editor's note: As 2010 winds down, we're celebrating the Best of 2010, our top 10 most popular columns of...
Why do Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others think that it is an OK practice to add plug-ins to Firefox when I'm installing their software packages? When I installed iTunes, in order to manage my music collection and sync to my iPod, why did Apple...
Once installed, be sure to change the following settings under your Firefox menu > Tools SEOQuake > Preferences > SE plug-ins: This free plug-in will allow you to get valuable statistics on pages within Google search results, including incoming...
Get an API developer to plug in the data Firebug.com (Free Firefox plugin) looks at page load times Me too. I actually changed sessions to be here today after Alex sold me on his toolbox at Schmoozefest yesterday.
Firefox offers a lot of plug-ins and toolbars that include a highlighter to easily identify nofollowed links, including: If you can't use plug-ins, simply view the page source and look at a link's HREF to see if they are nofollowing links.
You can also integrate the SEOQuake plug-in for Firefox and sort the backlink results by PageRank, incoming links, and other important metrics. I check the page I want my link on for broken links using Firefox's free Check Page Links plug-in.
You can use Google's Page Speed plug-in for Firebug to get a page speed analysis. This can be checked in the Web Developer extension for Firefox and Chrome. If you're planning a new site, or revamping an old one, just how important is your front...
The Firefox unpersonalized search plug-in used here is by Yoast, and installation is pretty simple. Here I've accessed Yahoo Site Explorer through the Search Status plug-in. Let's say we're given the assignment of profiling a niche target audience...
Internal and external link reports: Understanding the link structure of your site is vital, and is made a lot easier by a great Firefox SEO Link Analysis plug-in. The plug-in will check for any missing links, nofollowed links, and PageRank data.
If you support this kind of thing, and you have a WordPress blog, you can add this "do follow" capability using one of these plug-ins. There is also a handy way of seeing which blogs are "do follow" or "no follow" using a Firefox Web browser add-on.