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Applying Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques can have a significant impact on where your content displays in search results. When we search for keywords or phrases with Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and others we rarely have the time or patience to look beyond the first few pages. Having your content appear in the first few pages can bring in quite a bit of traffic and more interest than an article buried 30 or more pages down

I wanted to share a SEO tool I recently began to use. The Foxy SEO Tool Firefox Add-On provides an extensive listing of various SEO tools that you can access directly from your toolbar. Let me provide a few examples.

Once you download the Foxy SEO Tools Add-On and have the toolbar displayed, you can obtain in depth information about any webpage you want. Before using any of the tools, make sure you’re currently on the website you want this information for. I’ll highlight some of the tools below. Each tool can be accessed quick and easy from your toolbar in drop-down links.

Google – Google Backlinks, Google Cache, Google info, Google PageRank and more.

Yahoo! – Yahoo! Backlinks for This Page, Yahoo! Backlinks for this Site, Yahoo! Site Explorer for This Page, Yahoo! Site Explorer for This Site & more.

Others – Bing From Links, Ask Search & more.

Traffic – Alexa, Compete, Google Trends and Quantcast.

Profile – Safety tools (Google Safe Browsing, SiteAdvisor, Spam Blocklist & Web of Trust), Builtwith, Google AdPlanner, SEO moxLinkscape, and more.

Directories – About.com, DMOZ, Google Directory, Yahoo! Directory and others.

Social Media – See which pages are linked to sites such as Delicious, Digg, Google Blog, Google Groups, MySpace, Twitter, Technorati and others.

Network – These tools can be very handy in checking the performance speed and other information related to your site. Check your Performance with Network World Response, Page Loading Test and Ping Test. You can also do a DNS Check, GEO Location, IP Address, My IP information & more.

Miscellaneous – View various information such as CopyScape which shows if contents of a page has been copied anywhere on the net, look at older archived pages via the Internet Archive, Check the WhoIs information for your site and view the page from an anonymous Proxy.

Keyword - Keyword Research, Page Analysis, Domain Name Search, Google AdWords CPC, Google Trend Searches and More.

Tools – Check various web files related to your site, Validate your pages with W3C Standards, Search your text for duplicates and use the Spider Search Simulator to see how a spider sees your content.

Do you have any favorite SEO tools or maybe some tips you would like to provide? What do you think about Foxy SEO Tools?

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