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Bookmarklets for Successful SEO Research

Bookmarklets are JavaScript applications contained within a bookmark.

Able to be saved and used as a normal bookmark, allowing the same quick access to important and useful tools. To use a bookmarklet, just click the bookmarklet, and it applies filters to the page you're viewing, open prompts for searches, or a host of other helpful features.

Appearing as be normal links, they are actually dynamic scripts, able to perform a variety of tasks, depending on the bookmarklet you use, the page you're visiting, and even what specific text is selected on the page.

SEO Bookmarklets

To save these Bookmarklets, simply drag directly from this page to your bookmarks toolbar or folder.

• Backlinks:
  • Google: Backlinks - Google external links to page
  • Yahoo: Site Explorer - Yahoo Site Explorer - External and internal links to page
• LinkDomain
  • Yahoo: linkdomain - Internal links to active site: Yahoo
  • MSN linkfromdomain - View outbound links from site
• Site Search:
  • Google Site:Search - Shows pages indexed by Google
  • Yahoo - Shows pages indexed by Yahoo! Search
• Alexa Info - Displays Alexa information on the site
• Clear Cookies - Clears the cookies for the current page.
• Co.mments - Helps you stay on top of the conversation by keeping you updated of new comments. Just bookmark, track and follow.
• Disable CSS - View page without CSS, reapply CSS by clicking again.
• Google: CACHE - Shows the Google cache for the current page.
• int/ext links - Colors internal links red, external blue, in-page links orange.
• Keyword Density - by Webconf, counts and displays usage percent of words on page.
• Reverse IP DNS Check Tool - This tool will find other domain names hosted on your IP.
• Robots.txt - Displays the Robots.txt file for the active site.
• SEOmoz Page Strength tool - Membership to seomoz required. Provides 14 factors that may influence a page's ability to perform in the major engines.
• Spider Simulator - by Webconf, displays how the page is seen by the Search Engines.
• Tecnorati - Real-time search for user-generated media (including weblogs) by tag or keyword. Also provides popularity indexes.
• TinyURL - Creates a tiny URL for/from the active web page that will not break in email postings (or Twitter, or anywhere else you don't want a long URL..) and never expires.
• Uber Site Compare - Allows you to compare data from two sites. Yours and competition?
• UpDirectory - Moves up one directory level at a time.
• Validate W3C CSS - Validates code of linked or imported style sheets.
• Validate W3C Markup - Validates HTML code.
• Verify Links - Check that links on page are not broken.
• View Meta - Display the meta tags on the active page.
• WhoIs - Provides domain name registration information - registrant information, DNS, and expiration dates from DomainTools.
• WayBack Machine - Shows cached view of the current page at various points in time.