Marie-Claire Jenkins wrote a positive review about www.seo-browser.com recently in the Search Engine Journal.
She also reviews similar tools, DomainTools and SpiderView offered by LinkVendor. Both are different but I still use SEO-Browser on a daily basis.
In Advanced Mode, SEO-Browser will show links that have “no follow” tags. Let’s look at an example.
Recently, Chris Boggs wrote an article called “SEO Tools — Worth the Time and Money?” on SearchEngineWatch that included a link to www.seo-browser.com.
While I was reading the article I wondered if this page on SEW was an actual link or if they had used a “no follow” tag to prevent passing on any link love. The former being ideal.
Using SEO-Browser it is easy to see that the link is real and that all the love is being passed on to our humble tool. [Thanks Chris!]
Here is how you check.
1. Copy the URL of the page you want to look at. In this case, http://searchenginewatch.com/3635712.
2. Go to SEO-Browser and paste the URL into the Address field, then click Parse.
3. Click on Advanced Mode.
4. In the details section you will see a section called “# of Links” and beside that the number of links with a “no follow” tag. By the way, 29 links that are not followed is quite a few and concerned me at first.
5. Click on the number “29″ and a small embedded window will pop-up showing all the links. Here you will see that the link to SEO-Browser.com is not on the list. Excellent.
6. If you click on the number beside External you will see that there is a link to SEO-Browser on that list. This is good.
7. But there is another way to tell if a link has a “no follow” tag. If you scroll down the page in SEO-Browser, you will see some links are red. All red links have “no follow” tags; all blue links are actual links.
SEO-Browser is mentioned in this article by Dustin Ruge: SEO Consultant Firm Announces The Top 5 SEO Resources For 2009
Interesting article and comments posted by Untraditional Media on SEO-Browser.
See: http://www.untraditionalmedia.com/web-tips-and-info/how-search-engines-see-your-web-design/
In our opinion, search engines see everything on a page, not just what is above the fold.
While we at Anduro use SEOBrowser every day we also have many users outside of our organizaztion. Someone contacted us recently and asked us to walk them through how to use the tool.
So I marked up a Print Screen of the website she was concerned about and thought I would share it here on the SEOBrowser Blog:
So the first thing I see is that they have a single Long Tail keyword in the title tag - ‘Real Estate Services Northwestern Houston.’ The site does work for this term, but not for any of the shorter more commonly searched terms such as ‘Houston Real Estate.’
Secondly, I can see that they don’t have any website tracking software such as Google Analytics. They may have a website tracking service from their hosting service. However, we prefer that our customers use something a little more robust.
I notice that they don’t have a Robots.txt file.
Finally, they have a 302 redirect from BrendaWhite.com to BrendaWhite.com/home.asp. A 302 redirect is a temporary redirect and a 301 is a permanent redirect. Search engines prefer the 301 redirect. Here is an excellent graphical explanation: 301 vs 302 redirects.
Matt Olah