Free Search Engine Optimization with SearchStatus

“What does SearchStatus do?” you might ask… This tool­bar allows you to see how every web­site you visit is per­form­ing in terms of its Google PageR­ank, Alexa rat­ing, Com­pete score and Linkscape rank­ing. Hav­ing this infor­ma­tion read­ily avail­able on your screen can save a lot of pre­cious time.


Link Exchange To The Rescue-

One of the best form of search engine opti­miza­tion for your web­site is link build­ing. Sim­ply put, the more web­mas­ters who are point­ing to your web­site the bet­ter your chances of get­ting a higher rank­ing from search engines, in par­tic­u­lar, an improved pager­ank from google. How­ever, its not all about quan­tity. An impor­tant fac­tor for SEO is the qual­ity of the incom­ing links; a web­mas­ter from a web­site related to your niche will give you a lot of link juice (pager­ank from the website).

A pos­si­ble method of obtain­ing inbound links (back­links) is to scour the list sites for niche related websites/​blogs and con­tact the web­mas­ter request­ing for a link exchange with your web­site. This does not have to be as straight­for­ward as post­ing a direct link on either web­sites, rather a sub­tle one in the shape of a guest post on either sites. Search­Sta­tus will come in handy to track the progress of your links because it will show all the inbound links on the major search engines– Google, Yahoo and Bing– to your par­tic­u­lar page.


DoFol­low Or “DoDilemma”?-

Link exchange is not the only link build­ing method in the search engine opti­miza­tion hand­book. One that is eas­ier to apply is to build back­links by post­ing your links within use­ful com­ments on dofol­low blogs related to your niche. A web­mas­ter may frown upon this tech­nique declar­ing it as a way of entic­ing spam­mers, but I believe spam­mers will spam regard­less of this tech­nique. The prob­lem with the appli­ca­tion of this tech­nique is the scarcity of dofol­low blogs with good Google pager­ank. This is where the Search­Sta­tus tool­bar comes to the rescue.

There is an option in the Search­Sta­tus tool­bar to high­light Nofol­low links on every web­page you visit. This, cou­pled with the pager­ank icon acti­vated will cause you to be on the look­out for that PageR­ank 6 DoFol­low blog.


The Key­word Tool-

On Search­Sta­tus, you have the option to view the key­word den­sity of a par­tic­u­lar key­word on any given web­page. This can really help you to study your com­peti­tors and also, improve your search engine opti­miza­tion efforts. There is a key­word high­light option as well.

The Search­Sta­tus tool­bar exten­sion has link report­ing, metatags, view­ing sitemap and robots file, amongst other perks. With so many SEO fea­tures on a prod­uct that is absolutely FREE, one must be a search engine opti­miza­tion “guru” to not want it.

Asik Zubair

My name is Ash Zubair. A few years ago, I ran a suc­cess­ful online affil­i­ate busi­ness mak­ing a decent income. How­ever, the suc­cess came with a hefty price. I dropped out of my stud­ies at Uni­ver­sity to fully con­cen­trate on the busi­ness, but when I had an injury and couldn’t work any­more, I was left with noth­ing. I wasn’t a “guru” back then, nor did I claim to be one, but I did suc­cess­fully employ the nec­es­sary skills of the trade. My earn­ings did have one good use, that is to help with the cost of my surgery and now, I have learnt an invalu­able life les­son through this entire ordeal. I am resum­ing my stud­ies, albeit with the busi­ness side still intact.