SEO, PHP and Javascript Web Dev

Recently I came across a post which explained this great tip to speed up your seo analysis, it was such a simple idea I was surprised I hadn’t come across it sooner - basically using a javascript bookmarklet to run a query on a search engine at the click of a bookmark.

For those that don’t know you can run small javascript programs in the URL bar of your browser like so:

javascript:alert("Hello World")

Basically, you type the above line into the URL bar of your browser and it will run the javascript for you. The javascript always has to follow the javascript: pseudoprotocol specifier (can’t believe I just managed to work that word into a sentence).

The protocol specifies that what follows in the URL is to be executed by the browsers Javascript interpreter.

Now, I know I am using some big words here, but basically type javascript: into your URL bar and follow it with some javascript. End of story.

When you save these URL ‘mini programs’ as a bookmark they are known as a bookmarklet and you basically launch the program by clicking on the bookmark instead of typing the code into the URL bar.

SEO Bookmarklet Examples

Now that you know what these are, here are some examples. All you need to do is save them as a new bookmark, this is probably easiest done by creating a bookmark and setting its destination as one of the sample examples below…

Inbound Links

javascript:location.href='http:/'
+'/www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=link%3A'
+document.domain

javascript:location.href='http:/'
+'/siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p='
+document.domain
+'&bwm=i&bwms=p&bwmf=u&fr=sfp&fr2=seo-rd-se'

javascript:location.href='http:/'
+'/search.live.com/results.aspx?q=link%3A'
+document.domain
+'&FORM=LVSP&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=Search' 

Saturation

javascript:location.href='http:/'
+'/www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A'
+document.domain

javascript:location.href='http:/'
+'/siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p='
+document.domain+'&bwm=p&bwmf=u'

javascript:location.href='http:/'
+'/search.live.com/results.aspx?q=site%3A'
+document.domain
+'&form=QBRE&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=Search' 

So to use them just browse to the page you want to know the inbound links/site saturation for and click on the corresponding bookmarklet.

Let me know if any of them don’t work quite for ya, I haven’t really exhaustively tested them or even tested them at all haha, but they should provide a useful starting point

Other Useful Bookmarklets

• Webconfs SEO Toolset
  
• Squarefree Bookmarklets

Update:

Well, since writing this post Greywolf has posted some bookmarklets that kick my ass haha. So I would seriously suggest going and checking them out because they are awesome.

Here are the bookmarklets again from above in a slightly nicer format for you:

• Google Backlinks
• Yahoo Backlinks
• MSN Backlinks

• Google Saturation
• Yahoo Saturation
• MSN Backlinks

Update 2

Here are a few more useful ones I thought of, for retrieving the google cache of a page, the pagerank for a page and finding all other domains hosted at a particular IP address…

Google Cache

PageRank Check

Sites on this IP

Update 3

And another, based on SEOMOZ page strength. That guy in the yellow shoes uses it so why not?

Page Strength

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1. 302 or to not 302, or to 301, or just nothing?
2. NOODP
3. What do search engine spiders see?
4. Using a Splash Page
5. Testing Adwords

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