If you’re anyway serious about using search engine optimisation (SEO) to promote your website then you will no doubt be doing things like:

• checking how many pages Google has indexed
• having a laugh at (did I really say that!) how many backlinks Google is showing
• what are the meta tags on various pages

When I first started out in SEO over 6 years ago, I was using Internet Explorer and having to do all of these things manually – a real chore!

Well, fear not!  There’s a cool called Search Status from Quirk.biz.  Once it has installed, you’ll have a whole range of options available at the (right) click of your mouse:

• meta tags
• sitemaps
• indexed pages
• backlinks
• robots.txt files
• and lots more!

Click on the logo to go to the download page, install it into your Firefox browser (you ARE using Firefox?!!) – and off you go.  Checkout your own site – and even more fun, check out all of the competition’s sites!

Enjoy!