One useful tool that I used frequently to improve my Busby SEO Test blog to be more search engine friendly is SEO Quake addon plugin. This plugin is a powerful tool for me to know exactly the important SEO information and parameters about my blog as well as my competitors. Using this plugin I can arrange my next planning on doing SEO to my blog to catch up the current leader for this SEO contest.

This plugin is a Firefox browser addons that can be download freely and used as a free tool for every one. Installing this plugin in to the browser is very handy and simple. After you have download the plugin, extract the file and let the your browser do the rest. After finishing the installation, there will be a small button on the lower right hand side of the FF browser as seen on the picture here.

You can turn this plugin ON and OFF by clicking the button. When in On state, the button is in colored display otherwise when is OFF state, it will be in grayed color. Whenever this plugin is ON state, while you are visiting or browsing a web page there will be additional page bar floating on the upper part of browser like this :

This bar is full of information about the SEO data of web page you are browsing on. The data is consist of page PR, number of page indexed by Google, numbers of inbound links to that page, numbers of inbound links to th domain page, numbers of page indexed by Windows Live, Alexa rank of the domain, age of website, numbers of Delicious links, whois the owner of the website, page source view, the robots.txt file, sitemap file, page link density and internal/external link on the page, respectively.

By taking into account all the data from this plugin, you can manage how and what to increase in your SEO efforts, by comparing your own Busby SEO Test page to your competitors pages. Just browse to your competitor’s page and find out where you are leading and where you are losing to. In addition, by clicking on each button or numbers on the bar, you will be brought to the respective of each information details.