SEO Link Analysis Firefox Extension
Remember that Greasemonkey script that I recently updated? Well, maybe you should just forget about that... I'd been working on a version of that script which works on Yahoo Site Explorer and MS Webmaster portal too, and now I've gone even one step further: I've bundled the three of them, and turned them into a Firefox extension!
If you're not convinced yet you should go get it now, here are some screenshots:
So here is the SEO Link Analysis extension!
Update: just updated the script to 1.0.1 to fix a change in Yahoo!'s interface.
Another update: 1.0.2 is now available for download.
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Willy Dec 12th, 2007 at 01:05
Wow, this plug-in is amazing. Great job.
dave Dec 12th, 2007 at 02:09
Hey Joost,
I installed the plugin but does it work automatically or is there a place where you can switch it on/off ? It’s activated in the add-ons but I can’t figure out how to get this very nice plugin to show me what I like to know :D
dave
Joost de Valk Dec 12th, 2007 at 02:26
it works automatically, although you have to restart firefox, just as with every other plugin, and then just do a link check for a domain on Yahoo Site Explorer for instance...
Micah Fisher-Kirshner Dec 12th, 2007 at 03:12
Very nice, although would be nice to be able to download into Excel as well.
Dennis G Dec 12th, 2007 at 03:23
Joost,
This ROCKS!
Or as we say in Dutch, Reetecool... :)
Dennis
Nathan Dec 12th, 2007 at 05:59
awesome - the other day when I read that your greasemonkey script was updated - I thought it would be awesome if it was a firefox extension - and now it is.
hcabbos Dec 12th, 2007 at 06:13
Still confused. Where do you go in Firefox to use this extension?
Tjeerd Dec 12th, 2007 at 10:40
Joost,
The plugin is installed, Firefox has been restarted, but once I logon to Google Webmaster Tools and check the "Pages with external links" section, nothing can be seen (at least, nothing extra).
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; nl; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Joost de Valk Dec 12th, 2007 at 10:41
remember to click on to a page... nothing will happen in the overview area of the links section.
dave Dec 12th, 2007 at 10:42
Did that but without positive result..I do some other plugins running maybe that's the problem ?
dave
Joost de Valk Dec 12th, 2007 at 10:44
hmm which version of ffox do you run?
Tjeerd Dec 12th, 2007 at 10:44
Same here... "Pages with external links" is not the overview area.
Tjeerd Dec 12th, 2007 at 10:46
Ah... My bad - It's:
Login -> Links -> Pages with External Links -> click on any number behind any of the links in that overview.
Sorry Joost - works here :-)
Joost de Valk Dec 12th, 2007 at 10:47
could both of you send me a screenshot? joost at this domain
Joost de Valk Dec 12th, 2007 at 10:48
hehehehe ok tjeerd, glad to hear.
Tjeerd Dec 12th, 2007 at 10:51
It's not flawless though - many links are displayed as "link not found", but a quick check learns the links are there...
Joost de Valk Dec 12th, 2007 at 11:00
Ok now I really need a screenshot, and the URL's :) all the issues I have encountered in which that occurred, I'd fixed :)
Tjeerd Dec 12th, 2007 at 11:10
Email with screenshots sent.
Henri van den Hoof Dec 12th, 2007 at 11:54
Works super for me in Google and Yahoo. Thanks again Joost for your continued efforts on these handy tools :-)
Joost de Valk Dec 12th, 2007 at 12:10
Ok Tjeerd, the problem is that on most of those sites where you do have links, they either use:
- redirect scripts
- links with an affiliate code in it, instead of the exact URL
The script is set pretty "tight", I'll try and find a way to make sure that it matches those affiliate URL's when it can't find anything else. There's a few URL's which I don't understand, I'll mail you about those.
Patrick Dec 12th, 2007 at 12:12
Thank you Joost. Great stuff. Works fine in german webmaster tools. Thank you very much ;-)
Tjeerd Dec 12th, 2007 at 12:12
Joost,
I haven't personally checked each and every single one, but I'll await your email and see what the outcome of that will be. Thanks for the support so far :-)
dave Dec 12th, 2007 at 12:46
Email send :)
Works fine in webmaster tools, can't figure out how to run in Yahoo..
Joost de Valk Dec 12th, 2007 at 12:48
@Dave: you're using normal Yahoo search, and not the Yahoo SiteExplorer, big difference there ;)
dave Dec 12th, 2007 at 12:50
I knew I was doing something wrong :d
tingeltangeltill Dec 12th, 2007 at 13:30
thanks for that genius plugin!
martijn anschutz Dec 12th, 2007 at 13:46
Awesome extension Joost!
thnx for sharing
TripleOx Dec 12th, 2007 at 16:38
Very cool! Can you explain what the different colours and strike-throughs mean?
Joost de Valk Dec 12th, 2007 at 16:40
Yes, I should copy over that info from the original greasemonkey page I guess :P
orange strike through is a nofollow link, black is normal, red is not found.
hcabbos Dec 12th, 2007 at 17:14
Alright. Now I understand this tool. This is sweet but I too am finding "Link not found" on pages that are operational and have no redirect scripts and/or affiliate code.
Robbert Dec 12th, 2007 at 18:30
Very nice extension, but I would like to see an option to sort by PR and website :-)
Hope you can implement this in a later version!
Longhand Dec 12th, 2007 at 20:18
Congratulations for the extension, nice work!
Are You planning to update it later to make compatible with Site Explorer too? (ho have the ability using operators like site when checking backlinks.
Eric Blackwell Dec 12th, 2007 at 21:21
Great tool Joost! Still giving it a thorough test, but I like it!
Eric
Jab Dec 12th, 2007 at 21:40
Hi Joost,
first of all, thanks for sharing the extension. Nice job. Hopefully you do not stop developing it. From the questions in this thread, you can see where work should be done. Mostly usability things.
Regards, Jab
Hobo SEO Dec 12th, 2007 at 22:37
Boo Hoo! I'm getting a download error on my Mac. :(
Joost de Valk Dec 12th, 2007 at 22:41
@Robbert: that's harder then you think :)
@Longhand: it does work with site explorer, just not with normal Yahoo Search, before I do that, I have to find a way to disbale it.
@Hobo SEO: I'm a Mac user, so I feel the pain... What's going wrong? Which version of ffox?
PromoMasters Dec 12th, 2007 at 22:45
Wow - great tool. Seems you are going to get the new Matt Cutts - live hacking Google Webmaster Tools. Congratulations and thanks for giving this tool to us. I would need (buy) another tool. Maybe contact me? But I'm no millionaire :-)
Joost de Valk Dec 12th, 2007 at 22:47
Hehe PromoMasters you can always try, at least you can pay in something else than dollars :P
Hobo SEO Dec 12th, 2007 at 23:33
Hi Joost - I was getting an error (a "download error") a couple of times but just tried it again and hey presto..... now giving it a try.... :)
I'll sphinn of course - kudos for the free tools!
SEO Company Canada Dec 13th, 2007 at 01:55
Hey Joost, I've already found a couple bugs. The first thing is if the site exists on a page that has multiple links it picks up the first one which can be deceiving. Some directories have both an image of the site, and the URL. So it picks up the image instead of the link with anchor text.
The second is it is reporting a lot of sites saying Link not found, when they are there (good examples of this are on MyBlogLog and LinkedIn links are visible when I view page, but not according to the FF plugin). Cheers, and good work!!
deInternetMarketeer Dec 13th, 2007 at 02:54
This is the great tool i was looking for!
Nice job!
SEO Scotland Dec 13th, 2007 at 11:38
Well, I was convinced with just the google webmasters tools script, and you've taken it a step further! Great work.
Stephen Dec 13th, 2007 at 12:44
Joost - Looks good but getting an alert 'Error: matches has no properties' in YSE..?
Tom Dec 13th, 2007 at 13:02
wow great work. best regards tom
Joost de Valk Dec 13th, 2007 at 13:33
@Stephen: hmm, any chance of emailing me the URL for that one?
Joost de Valk Dec 13th, 2007 at 13:56
For those of you who got the "matches" error on Yahoo: install the newest version, 1.0.1 that should fix it!
Sebastian Dec 13th, 2007 at 15:01
Thanks, this tool works great, even with my ancient FF version. I'm just curious why it spams the referrer stats with "https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/externallinks" hits that actually are requests which would work without an HTTP_REFERER too.
Joost de Valk Dec 13th, 2007 at 15:03
hmm Sebastian, good point, i'll check it out for a later version.
deInternetMarketeer Dec 13th, 2007 at 15:29
Worked fine in the beginning, then matches errors.
Installed new version and with link: it works fine but with linkdomain: the matches error shows up again.
seo bristol Dec 13th, 2007 at 18:14
Hi Joost
It's looking like it's going to be a fantastic tool but I'm using 1.0.1 and I'm still getting the matches error...
Joost de Valk Dec 13th, 2007 at 18:16
SEO Bristol: can you send me a screenshot + the url? And can you verify that you're indeed running 1.0.1 by looking at your add-ons menu? Firefox has the nasty habit of caching stuff :P
Joost de Valk Dec 13th, 2007 at 18:39
And another update to fix issues with Yahoo! SiteExplorer, the link now points to version 1.0.2 :)
Joost de Valk Dec 13th, 2007 at 18:41
@Sebastian: latest version removes that referer spam as well.
Sebastian Dec 13th, 2007 at 18:55
Thanks Joost - you're fast :)
Life Design Dec 13th, 2007 at 19:02
Killer SEO app for my fave piece of open source software. Joost: may you forever outrank the name-pinching TV streaming app :)
seo bristol Dec 13th, 2007 at 19:09
Hi Joost
1.0.2 works beautifully - that's so impressive to get it sorted so quickly.
Many thanks
G
Arnie Dec 13th, 2007 at 19:48
Awesome! Installed and looking at great data in less than 2 minutes. Great tool.
SEO Company Canada Dec 13th, 2007 at 19:48
When you install a new version make sure to remove any old ones or you will have multiple showing up in your Addon screen.
Joost de Valk Dec 13th, 2007 at 21:10
@SEO Company Canada: yes indeed, thx for mentioning that, that's because I still make the extension the lame ass way, I'll fix that soon.
nv1962 Dec 13th, 2007 at 23:37
Awesome Firefox extension, Joost. Don't want to clutter up with comments elsewhere, but I have two of your WP plugins in use on my little blog, and mentioned / linked back on the "about" page. The contact form thingie is great! Back on topic: now that I've figured out that it drills down on external links to individual pages, I appreciate it even more. Really handy tool, even though in my case it's more about satisfying my curiosity than justification (it's a low-traffic personal blog after all - which is fine with me!).
Hele fijne feestdagen gewenst!
Joost de Valk Dec 13th, 2007 at 23:45
@nv1962: thx :)
Nick Dec 14th, 2007 at 02:44
Cool script joost, thanks.
Financial Blog Dec 14th, 2007 at 11:49
Hey Joost,
Great script - it was working superbly for me the first day but now I get an error in siteexplorer - "Error: matches has no content". I tried installing the 1.0.2 bugfix but it hasn't helped.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Joost de Valk Dec 14th, 2007 at 11:52
Hi, Could you: A check if you've installed the new script correctly and removed the old script? Just look in your add-ons and check whether you have just the 1.0.2 release installed. B if that's the case, sent me an email with the URL and a screenshot :)
Financial Blog Dec 14th, 2007 at 11:56
Hi Joost,
That did the trick - thanks! I didn't realise that it wouldn't overwrite the previous addon.
It now works like a charm again - you're a genius!
WEBOSIS Dec 14th, 2007 at 21:16
Hey Joost, would you recommend using this one over the Greasemonkey script?
I see that it also supports Yahoo and Live, but does it do anything different inside GWT?
Joost de Valk Dec 14th, 2007 at 21:29
@WEBOSIS: yes. It's much improved since.
SEO München Dec 16th, 2007 at 05:26
Amazing, a wonderful Tool! :)
willky Dec 16th, 2007 at 12:47
Hi Joost, you did a great job! We were planning a tool like this. But now we can concentrate on link-analysis without any programming-efforts. By the way, the tool works only with the english-version of yahoo siteexplorer, right?
wo heiraten Dec 17th, 2007 at 12:26
Hi Joost - great job - will save me some time in the future. Keep up the good work . Thanks a lot!
seccus Dec 17th, 2007 at 14:11
Hi!
I did what it should be done to install the plug-in. It says to restart Firefox. I did. But where is SEO??? Nothing. Not in the toolbar section. I reinstalled many times and nothing happened again. My computer work with Vista.
Thank.
Joost de Valk Dec 17th, 2007 at 17:57
@seccus: go to a links page in Google webmaster tools, or do a linkdomain: query in yahoo site explorer, and see what happens. (and read a bit more next time :P )
seccus Dec 17th, 2007 at 19:12
Sorry. I did what asked. I do not see what supposed to happen. All these links where there or were like it when I made a linkdomain request on Yahoo last time before the SEO installation. You ask for screenshot to understand a problem, don't you think it may help rookie like me to show what we suppose to get?
seccus Dec 17th, 2007 at 19:15
Forget my last message : i found what i was looking for. Thank.
skuub internetagentur Dec 19th, 2007 at 01:27
great add-on --- no one cares about PR anymore (I heard some people say ;)-- but seeing the PR0-10 backlinks in black&white is fun to watch and good for the ego - thanks a bunch
Web 2.0 Blog Dec 20th, 2007 at 01:41
Thanks for this great extension! Well done :)
AOKIKI Hochzeitskarten Dec 20th, 2007 at 23:17
Hi Joost, Cool tool, this really saves me a lot of time increasing traffic on our Hochzeitskarten website. Groeten!
Marc Dec 22nd, 2007 at 23:32
Thanks a lot, this plugin will save me a lot of time!
Eric Bramlett Dec 24th, 2007 at 02:01
Hey Joost -
Killer plug-in. Blackwell from ericonsearch sent it to me, and I think it's one of the strongest SEO tools I've used in a long time.
Quick question for you - it's working great w/ the yahoo site explorer & webmaster tools, but when I run a search on yahoo like this:
"linkdomain:competitorsite.com -linkdomain:mysite.com" it's not working. Is there any way to make it work on this type of search?
Thanks!
Eric
Moe Alza Jan 3rd, 2008 at 11:00
How do I get this to work? What am I supposed to do exactly?
Eric Bramlet Jan 3rd, 2008 at 16:38
Install it & run a link analysis on yahoo or in G webmaster tools.
Danny Speight Jan 7th, 2008 at 07:17
New Year Greetings from Bangkok Joost
Many thanks for the tool. Works great here.
Danny
design bristol Feb 4th, 2008 at 11:10
Love this script, I use it daily ;) Thanks Joost!
jim Feb 20th, 2008 at 20:43
I was doing a lot of yahoo site explorer searches with the seo-link-analysis add-on installed, and suddenly stopped getting any page rank results returned in google toolbar. I had to reset my i.p. address to get it back. I am pretty sure that Google cut me off due to multiple calls for page rank from site explorer
Joost de Valk Feb 20th, 2008 at 20:44
Jup Jim, it does do that sometimes.
Live On Music Mar 3rd, 2008 at 00:29
You have made my life a lot easier.
Have a good one!
çeviri Mar 8th, 2008 at 02:45
nice log
Anders Møller Mar 11th, 2008 at 22:28
Thanks a lot for the extension, it's a great tool just what I was looking for!
Search engine tips Apr 5th, 2008 at 20:30
Oh no, i missed this one.
Anyway thank you for your best effort on this.
Quantic Apr 16th, 2008 at 20:11
Thanks for sharing
waltraud huree Apr 28th, 2008 at 01:51
I get a Error has no matches message, im using 1.0.2 could you please fix it?
Jurgen May 20th, 2008 at 21:20
Great job. One of the must haves for SEO’ers
James May 21st, 2008 at 03:19
really good, hehe I forgot a bit of it...didnt know firfox was this good.
Financial Blog May 21st, 2008 at 16:50
Hi Joost,
This has stopped working for me again - I just don't get any info on siteexplorer - any ideas why, or any known conflicts with other extensions?
Thanks
Morten May 23rd, 2008 at 19:07
HEY - I Love this plugin for FF - thanks!
James May 26th, 2008 at 18:18
Really informative article, it helped me a lot, had to come back a few times and readi it again. keep up the good work, thanks
Nick May 26th, 2008 at 18:36
Same as Mr Financial Blog above,
The plugin isn't working for me, something is conflicting.
Financial Blog May 27th, 2008 at 10:22
I'm starting to get an error now - couldn't tell you why.
It says "Error: matches has no properties" - hopefully this helps?
seonyár Jun 9th, 2008 at 16:14
Great job, man! Thanks a lot.
Jeremy Jun 30th, 2008 at 18:10
Not working for me.
Eifelportal Sep 6th, 2008 at 07:42
Hier mal eine Kommentar in deutsch: Super Arbeit und für die tägliche Arbeit bestens geeignet.