Personally I dislike toolbars for the most part because I don’t feel they add enough value versus the amount of space that they take on my browser. I just never really got into the Google and Yahoo toolbars. There just wasn’t enough good features to keep me interested and saying “This toolbar is an invaluable part of my web surfing experience”. I am an online marketing guy and I use The SEO toolbar from SEO Book. This is the one I like the most, but there are several other worthy SEO toolbars out there. Below are my top 5 SEO toolbars. If you have a favorite not on the list, please feel free to comment with your suggestions.
- The SEO Toolbar – This is the toolbar from SEO Book. The thing I like about this toolbar is that it isn’t cluttered and provides extremely useful information relevant to search engine optimization. The information included is page rank, Yahoo domain backlinks, Yahoo page backlinks, number of directory links, site age, and estimated visitors. They also have many other advanced features that you can use off of the toolbar. It also helps that this toolbar is free. (Firefox Only)
- SEOmoz Toolbar- This toolbar is cool because they include their popular Page Authority and Domain Authority metrics. They also include number of linking sites and easily highlight no-followed links on a page. (Firefox and Chrome)
- SEO Quake – They offer several different parameter options. Besides the common metrics like number of links and page rank, they offer Digg index, Delicious Index, Google Trends, Quantcast Rank, Alexa Rank, and Technorati index. (Firefox, Chrome, and Safari)
- SEMToolBar – This toolbar was created by Bruce Clay. It has all the standard statistics but also includes the Google cached date, page, and text date of a webpage. This is also one of the few that support Internet Explorer. (Internet Explorer and Firefox)
- AdMax SEO Toolbar- Admax offers the standard metrics but also includes some link building and keyword tools. The coolest feature is that it offers a Mobile Mode. I don’t know of any others that do that. (Firefox)
Feel free to comment on your experiences and help our readers make an informed selection.
