SEO Playground Tool
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
21 Comments
Dudibob
That’s a very nice tool, I shall have a play in the playground later on, cheers!
Geo - http://www.vzemibg.com
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
IrishWonder - http://www.irishwonder.com
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.
Amelia Vargo
I think this could prove really useful! Thank you for developing it and letting us all use it
Dan - http://www.forwardslashmarketing.co.uk
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.
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Mark Goodwin
This SEO Tool is nothing short of brilliant!
I can go and disable a load of my old add-ons now!
Eduard Blacquière - http://eduardblacquiere.com
Brilliant SEO tool, Dave, compliments!
Eric D. Greene - http://www.ericdgreene.com
Thank you, I am trying out the tool and so far I like it a lot.
– Eric
James Bell - http://www.jsblaw.net
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
Maltese - http://malteseo.com
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.
Dudibob
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
DM
Glad you just blogged mentioning this Dave – first time I’ve seen it. I now realise where the SEOmoz rip off originated.
Chris - http://blog.eatonmedia.co.uk
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!
benoitneuts - http://www.referencement-2000.com
That’s a great tool.
This is first IE extension for SEO purposes !
Thanks a lot
Dave - http://www.djb31st.co.uk
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
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Robbert - http://psproducts.nl
When i use the tool the pagerank isn’t being displayed at all. Is there anything i could be doing wrong?
I hope someone is willing and able to help me.
Thanks in advance.
Robbert
Ed
When is it available for chrome????
Ed
OOoh it already is!
Nice one guys!
Red
@DaveN Ok Dave – just noticed the “Bronco Score” on the seo playground tool today…seems that this is a add on feature that was not a part of the original toolkit – the pics on http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/seo-playground-tool.html suggest this…how is this Bronco Score ratio calculated please?