"When You Absolutely . . . Positively
Must Get Byzantine on Your Competitors
Use SEOQuake and SEO Elite - A Killer Combo"

Two of the best-kept secrets in Internet marketing is SEOQuake and SeoElite. Taken together, these two software are the killer bees of the SEO world!

SEOQuake is a plugin for Mozilla Firefox that allows user to view a large number of Search Engine information on the fly. The best part is that this plugin is for FREE! Here is a screen capture of what it looks like:



The developers at SEOQuake really took the time to think out all the stats required to annihilate the competition. Standard information such as Google Pagerank and Alexa traffic rank, which most SEO professionals should recognize, are placed in prominent positions on the bar. Less used, but equally important is the Wayback Machine and the Whois buttons which gives vital information about the age of a site and how many times the website changed owners. This is a must-have feature for professionals who buy and sell websites. The coup de grace is the Yahoo! Links and Linksdomain button, which is not even documented very well by Yahoo!. The Links Button tells you how many backlinks are linking to a homepage. While the Linksdomain tells you how many site are linking to the entire website. This is very important because this gives you an idea how much competition is in your niche. Plus it gives you insight as to how aggressive and skilled a Webmaster is in optimizing his website. The one weakness is the fact that it doesn’t tell you the anchor text that the backlinks are attached to. The anchor text is very important because this is what is counted by the search engines to rank a webpage on the search engine results page. For this you, will need the heavy artillery, SeoElite.

SeoElite picks up where SEOQuake leaves off. Whereas SEOQuake finds all the backlinks that Yahoo! indexes (this is a probably a good strategy because Yahoo! indexes the most backlinks) SeoElite finds the backlinks for all the other major search engines such as Google, MSN, and Alta Vista. The one very powerful difference with SeoElite is that this software can discern the anchor text used to link back to a webpage.

SeoElite can also track your position over time for a given set of keyword. What is really great is that you can run your results right next to your competitors so as to compare your progress as time goes on. Of course, if you were so inclined, you can spy on your competitor’s progress to one-up him on his SEO strategy.


This is among a few of the many powerful features of SeoElite. You should definitely check out this software if for nothing other than to watch Brad Callan’s (the developer for this software) video demos of SeoElite which is an education on SEO in and of itself.

We hope you enjoyed this article. Keep searching and keep optimizing!
Brad Masterson
Editor-in-Chief
Search-Engine-Optimized-DC.com


The editors at Search Engine Optimized DC want to extend thanks to Lars Vage of Pandia.com for his research on the linking syntax for Yahoo!.