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Getting excited yet? How to effectively use SEO Doctor for diagnosing website problems. Recent update of SEO Doctor, my free SEO audit tool for Firefox, was a very important release as now the add-on features the most comprehensive set of on-site optimization tools found in any extension, paid or free. One of the features I gave a lot of attention to was website indexing problems that seem to have affected a lot of webmasters recently (and no wonder too, with so many things that can accidentally go wrong).
SEO Doctor automatically detects all possible causes for a page not to be indexed - robots.txt exclusion, meta noindex tag, rel canonical tag and x-robots-noindex http headers. In addition, it instantly detects all common SEO problems by simply loading a desired page in the browser window. As a little guide on using SEO Doctor to diagnose common problems, I decided to visit some of my recent commentators websites just to see what will come up in SEO Doctor. 1. Indexing issues Website: 2. 3. Website: Manual - How can SEMRush.com be valuable for you? Guide. Introduction: SEOquake is a program, which allows user to view a large number of SE parameters on the fly.
SEOquake for Mozilla Firefox consists of three functional parts: SeoToolbar (requested parameters are shown in a separate toolbar in the browser), Seobar (requested parameters are shown in a separate, fully customizable with CSS, HTML block) and output of requested parameters on Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). ATTENTION! Frequent use of large amount of parameters may lead to a ban from SE. In this case, you will need to delete cookies and change proxy server.
How to install: In order to use SEOquake you have to be using Firefox. Firefox 3 and SSL check: How to turn off SSL check in Firefox 3 for extension installation - Go to about:config (simply right it down in an address bar), create a new preference of a boolean type - "extensions.checkUpdateSecurity" and set it to "false". Settings: From this window you can enable/disable different plugins for SEOquake. Update: Uninstall: The Blogger's Guide to SEO - by Aaron & Giovanna Wall.