Mozilla released Firefox 3 this week to much fanfare, with the organization claiming more than 8 million downloads on the first day (to be confirmed by Guinness, no less).
Bottom line, the latest version of Firefox is nothing short of fantastic. Besides boasting improved performance (a drawback of v2), Firefox features one-click bookmarking, a “smart” location bar that learns as you use it, and a full zoom that lets you expand any part of a web page. In all, Mozilla claims over 15,000 improvements over Firefox 2.
Now, the jury is still out in the 6S office whether Firefox 3 has now established itself as the market’s superior browser. But we do agree that cool new SEO add-ons and Google’s Firefox toolbar could very well make Firefox 3 the new SEO browser of choice – and give IE7 more than a run for its money.
Here’s how to add Firefox 3 to your SEO arsenal. First:
1. If you haven’t already done so, download Firefox 3.
2. Install the Google Toolbar for Firefox. With this toolbar, you can add custom buttons for your favourite sites, send web pages by e-mail, text, or blog, and create bookmarks you can access from any computer.
Next, install these SEO add-ons:
1. SEO Book.com’s SEO for Firefox. This excellent tool adds all kinds of data to traditional search result lists, giving you an overview of why a page is ranking where it is.
2. SEOmoz’s SEO ToolBox is a collection of free SEO tools, including inclusion and backlink checks, and indexed pages and page rank reports.
June 23, 2008
