SEO Link Analysis Firefox Extension
11 December 2007
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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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Wow, this plug-in is amazing. Great job.
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
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...
Very nice, although would be nice to be able to download into Excel as well.
Joost,
This ROCKS!
Or as we say in Dutch, Reetecool... :)
Dennis
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.
Still confused. Where do you go in Firefox to use this extension?
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
remember to click on to a page... nothing will happen in the overview area of the links section.
Did that but without positive result..I do some other plugins running maybe that's the problem ?
dave
hmm which version of ffox do you run?
Same here... "Pages with external links" is not the overview area.
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 :-)
could both of you send me a screenshot? joost at this domain
hehehehe ok tjeerd, glad to hear.
It's not flawless though - many links are displayed as "link not found", but a quick check learns the links are there...
Ok now I really need a screenshot, and the URL's :) all the issues I have encountered in which that occurred, I'd fixed :)
Email with screenshots sent.
Works super for me in Google and Yahoo. Thanks again Joost for your continued efforts on these handy tools :-)
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.
Thank you Joost. Great stuff. Works fine in german webmaster tools. Thank you very much ;-)
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 :-)
Email send :)
Works fine in webmaster tools, can't figure out how to run in Yahoo..
@Dave: you're using normal Yahoo search, and not the Yahoo SiteExplorer, big difference there ;)
I knew I was doing something wrong :d
thanks for that genius plugin!
Awesome extension Joost!
thnx for sharing
Very cool! Can you explain what the different colours and strike-throughs mean?
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.
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.
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!
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.
Great tool Joost! Still giving it a thorough test, but I like it!
Eric
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
Boo Hoo! I'm getting a download error on my Mac. :(
@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?
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 :-)
Hehe PromoMasters you can always try, at least you can pay in something else than dollars :P
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!
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!!
This is the great tool i was looking for!
Nice job!
Well, I was convinced with just the google webmasters tools script, and you've taken it a step further! Great work.
Joost - Looks good but getting an alert 'Error: matches has no properties' in YSE..?
wow great work. best regards tom
@Stephen: hmm, any chance of emailing me the URL for that one?
For those of you who got the "matches" error on Yahoo: install the newest version, 1.0.1 that should fix it!
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.
hmm Sebastian, good point, i'll check it out for a later version.
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.
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...
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
And another update to fix issues with Yahoo! SiteExplorer, the link now points to version 1.0.2 :)
@Sebastian: latest version removes that referer spam as well.
Thanks Joost - you're fast :)
Killer SEO app for my fave piece of open source software. Joost: may you forever outrank the name-pinching TV streaming app :)
Hi Joost
1.0.2 works beautifully - that's so impressive to get it sorted so quickly.
Many thanks
G
Awesome! Installed and looking at great data in less than 2 minutes. Great tool.
When you install a new version make sure to remove any old ones or you will have multiple showing up in your Addon screen.
@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.
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!
@nv1962: thx :)
Cool script joost, thanks.
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
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 :)
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!
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?
@WEBOSIS: yes. It's much improved since.
Amazing, a wonderful Tool! :)
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?
Hi Joost - great job - will save me some time in the future. Keep up the good work . Thanks a lot!
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.
@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 )
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?
Forget my last message : i found what i was looking for. Thank.
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
Thanks for this great extension! Well done :)
Hi Joost, Cool tool, this really saves me a lot of time increasing traffic on our Hochzeitskarten website. Groeten!
Thanks a lot, this plugin will save me a lot of time!
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
How do I get this to work? What am I supposed to do exactly?
Install it & run a link analysis on yahoo or in G webmaster tools.
New Year Greetings from Bangkok Joost
Many thanks for the tool. Works great here.
Danny
Love this script, I use it daily ;) Thanks Joost!
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
Jup Jim, it does do that sometimes.
You have made my life a lot easier.
Have a good one!
nice log
Thanks a lot for the extension, it's a great tool just what I was looking for!
Oh no, i missed this one.
Anyway thank you for your best effort on this.
Thanks for sharing
I get a Error has no matches message, im using 1.0.2 could you please fix it?
Great job. One of the must haves for SEO’ers
really good, hehe I forgot a bit of it...didnt know firfox was this good.
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
HEY - I Love this plugin for FF - thanks!
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
Same as Mr Financial Blog above,
The plugin isn't working for me, something is conflicting.
I'm starting to get an error now - couldn't tell you why.
It says "Error: matches has no properties" - hopefully this helps?
Great job, man! Thanks a lot.
Not working for me.
Hier mal eine Kommentar in deutsch: Super Arbeit und für die tägliche Arbeit bestens geeignet.
Still confuse on this one, can you describe it more complete???
Hi just installed this add on. Just wonder how does this work? Does this just highlight colours when you serach in Google/Yahoo?
I have done a search in both but couldnt see any highlights, not sure how to get this working.
Thanks
Can't see to get it to work either.