The SEO Playground tool was first released sometime ago, but never given the exposure it deserved. I am therefore just writing a brief post covering its features and detailing how to install it.
Installation is straight forward. Simply create a shortcut within your browser. In Firefox this couldn’t be easier drag me into your header. As illustrated here:
Rename as you deem fit and then any page/site you wish to research simply click the button, it will load over the page and give you lots of useful SEO related information including:
Research Tools
- The ability to submit to Social Networks:
- Digg
- Sphinn
- Stumbleupon
- Mixx
- Create a TinyURL for a page instantly.
- Links to Domain Information, including:
- Alexa
- Whois
- Internet Archive
- xHTML Validator
Search data
- Google Data including
- Page Rank
- Number of Cached Pages
- Last Cache Date
- Directory stats including mentions in:
- Delicious
- Technorati
- Dmoz
- Amount of inbound links pointing that the domain being reviewed.
On-Page Text
- Page Title
- Meta Description
- Image Alternatives
- Text used in links
- Text that’s been made bold
- Density of single words, two word phrases and three word phrases
- List of CSS and JavaScript files that have been requested
- Inbound/Outbound Link Ratios
- List of all External Follow links
Enjoy
16 Comments
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Maan, this tool ROCKS! Seriously.
I would like to also report a major bug in it though. It is written with the latin alphabet in mind only – it discards all non-latin characters even in a UTF-8 encoded site, which is pitty, given that UTF-8 is so common these days and SEO exists outside the English/French/German speaking world too. Try it on any Russian or Bulgarian website, it doesn’t work properly.
I hope it gets unicode support soon enough.
Cheers
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It partially duplicates the SEO4FF plugin right click functionality but the text and links features and social functionality is really nice. I got a kick out of server headers info as well.
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I think this could prove really useful! Thank you for developing it and letting us all use it
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Slick Tool – Currently using WebMynd for similar functionality for “socialising” links…
Be nice to ahave bit.ly support so that we can you can track clicks via analytics. - 7
This SEO Tool is nothing short of brilliant!
I can go and disable a load of my old add-ons now!
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Brilliant SEO tool, Dave, compliments!
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Thank you, I am trying out the tool and so far I like it a lot.
- Eric - 10
i am a rookie – can someone explain in laymen’s terms how social networking sites help with respect to traffic towards your domain? thanks and sorry for my ignorance
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This tool includes some of the most popular tasks one needs for basic SEO. It seems cool, will give it a go and check my blog out.
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Any chance you could sticky this tool somewhere? new comp, new browser and having to find all me add ons and such. Love the tool but a begger to find
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Glad you just blogged mentioning this Dave – first time I’ve seen it. I now realise where the SEOmoz rip off originated.
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You know, I thought this would be rubbish and tried it only to see how crap it was going to be but was extremely suprised, in fact I laughed at myself a little for thinking that in the first place.
Lovely addon, amazing in fact!! I love it!
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That’s a great tool.
This is first IE extension for SEO purposes !
Thanks a lot - 16
I see its already been mentioned, but just a reminder if anyone has any development time to alter this tool.
The playground only functions with website in the latin character set… UTF-8 support would be a great addition to this tool
Dave
That’s a very nice tool, I shall have a play in the playground later on, cheers!