Comments on: Sponsored Post: SEO Toolbar Review http://www.webthingsconsidered.com/2007/01/08/sponsored-post-seo-toolbar-review/ Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:47:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: hawth http://www.webthingsconsidered.com/2007/01/08/sponsored-post-seo-toolbar-review/comment-page-1/#comment-202 hawth Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:44:13 +0000 http://www.webthingsconsidered.com/?p=195#comment-202 SEO for Firefox is really stiff competition. I barley touch IE. SEO for Firefox is really stiff competition. I barley touch IE.

]]> By: Ryan J. http://www.webthingsconsidered.com/2007/01/08/sponsored-post-seo-toolbar-review/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Ryan J. Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:38:31 +0000 http://www.webthingsconsidered.com/?p=195#comment-200 True, the toolbar is for IE and it isn't explicitly stated on the download page, but when is the last time you installed a firefox plugin from an .exe file? I use SEO Inc.'s toolbar quite often. Though you don't mention these, what I find the most useful about SEO Inc.'s toolbar is the ability to configure and tailor search engine results via the Menu >> Options >> Search Engine Query String Builder. This allows me to tailor searches in google, msn, and yahoo based on various criteria such as number of results returned, filetypes, cache dates, etc. This is extremely useful in specific browsing and I use it quite often. Also, you don't even mention how dynamic search engines are and how the displayed HTML of searches, and hence, how the toolbar scrapes the engine can change. Built into their toolbar is the ability to simply click "Update" via the Menu option. So, say Yahoo! changes the way total number of results is displayed, using this feature you don't have to update the software, just the config file with one click. Also, they have a link to "Free SEO Tools" from the Menu button, which, though aren't original, they are very useful and packaged together neatly. Though it's not explicitly part of the toolbar, it's obvious they decided to have the two used in conjunction with each other (with the link from the Menu button and all). Lastly, you may have access to certain features/tools in your FF plugins, but is that really the point of the review? Are they <i>useless</i> because you can access them from a comparable plugin/toolbar? Following that logic, is Microsoft Office 2007's "Save" feature useless because I can save documents in Open Office? Of course not.... As far as IE toolbars go, this is at the top of my list. Who knows, maybe SEO Inc. will develop a plugin for FF in the future. True, the toolbar is for IE and it isn’t explicitly stated on the download page, but when is the last time you installed a firefox plugin from an .exe file? I use SEO Inc.’s toolbar quite often. Though you don’t mention these, what I find the most useful about SEO Inc.’s toolbar is the ability to configure and tailor search engine results via the Menu >> Options >> Search Engine Query String Builder. This allows me to tailor searches in google, msn, and yahoo based on various criteria such as number of results returned, filetypes, cache dates, etc. This is extremely useful in specific browsing and I use it quite often. Also, you don’t even mention how dynamic search engines are and how the displayed HTML of searches, and hence, how the toolbar scrapes the engine can change. Built into their toolbar is the ability to simply click “Update” via the Menu option. So, say Yahoo! changes the way total number of results is displayed, using this feature you don’t have to update the software, just the config file with one click. Also, they have a link to “Free SEO Tools” from the Menu button, which, though aren’t original, they are very useful and packaged together neatly. Though it’s not explicitly part of the toolbar, it’s obvious they decided to have the two used in conjunction with each other (with the link from the Menu button and all).

Lastly, you may have access to certain features/tools in your FF plugins, but is that really the point of the review? Are they useless because you can access them from a comparable plugin/toolbar? Following that logic, is Microsoft Office 2007′s “Save” feature useless because I can save documents in Open Office? Of course not…. As far as IE toolbars go, this is at the top of my list. Who knows, maybe SEO Inc. will develop a plugin for FF in the future.

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