Just cobbled together a nice little SEO tool that checks the PageRank of a website’s backlinks and sorts them in order of the pages with most authority - LinkRanker.

The tool grabs backlink information from the top 50 inlink results at Yahoo’s SiteExplorer API, so should be a bit more accurate than tools which use Google’s linkage data.

It’s probably still not that accurate, but should give a good indication at least. Any feature requests?

If you’ve just eagerly updated to Firefox 3, only to find that you can’t use certain vital extensions like the Web Developer toolbar and User Agent Switcher, read this useful post and then restart Firefox to fix the “plugin does not provide secure updates” message.

Hurrah! After a seemingly immense period of beta and RC testing, Firefox 3 is finally here!

Only problem is that those of us in the UK have to wait until 6pm (or 10am San Francisco time) to download it

Since everyone else seems to be releasing free/not quite free Google SERP ranking trackers, in the spirit of “what the hell they’ll change the code tomorrow anyway”, here’s the (Perl) regular expression I’ve been using for my own Google SERP tracker:
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One of the many incredibly useful modules over at the Perl module database CPAN, is the WWW::Google::PageRank module. It gives a quick and easy way of checking PageRank for a number of pages without delving into the particulars of the header exchanges over at toolbarqueries.google.com.

In order to use the script below, first create a file named ‘pages.txt’, and enter the full URLs of the pages you want to check, separated by newline characters, and save it in the same directory as the script:

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Further to my previous post about Search Engine Optimizer essentials, there are a couple of additional tweaks you can make to your Firefox installation to make it more useful for SEO purposes.

Custom Stylesheet

1. Find your /Profiles/{xyz}.default/chrome/ directory
2. Rename userContent-example.css to userContent.css and open it in your favourite text editor
3. Add in the following rules:

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