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SEO TIP: Viewing NOFOLLOW Links On The Web

Aaron Wall’s brilliantly useful SEO For Firefox plugin can show you a lot about websites via the search results - PageRank, age of site, number of backlinks, etc.
For me however, the most useful feature of the plugin highlights links that have had rel=”nofollow” applied to them. This can be useful when doing link building [...]

Posted in Search Engine Optimisation, Social Networking on Tuesday, August 28 2007 | Leave a comment »

Navigate Like A Pro In FireFox

Lifehacker has a post about dragging unlinked URLs to the address bar to navigate.
Let’s say you come across an URL that hasn’t been linked. Select it (careful with spaces at the start and end) and drag it up to the address bar. Release the mouse and FireFox will automagically jump to that page.
In fact, you [...]

Posted in Web Browsers on Monday, January 8 2007 | 1 Comment »

Operator Firefox Extension Gives Microformats Wings

Finally! I’ve been watching discussions on Microformats avidly over the last year. The debate over microformats seemed to be all very academic, as no tools existed to locate and harness microformat data.
I’ve just discovered the Operator extension for FireFox, which is a plugin to detect and debug microformats on any web page. I’ve tested this [...]

Posted in Web Browsers, Web Design & Standards on Saturday, December 30 2006 | Leave a comment »