What does this step by Google indicate?

[There are two things.]

First, link or blog networks are on Google’s radar now.

Second, links still matter.

If you conduct a search on Google, you can easy find hundreds of reviews that recommend BMR as one of the best SEO tools. Now that the de-indexing has happened many of the reviewers feel sorry about it.

Here’s what Steve (of SteveScottSite) has to say –

Lis (of Lis Sower Butts) says this –

There are high speculations that Google will de-index many other link networks. But what we know for sure is that BMR’s blog network has been de-indexed already. The owner of this link network has honestly shared the details of this de-indexing on their site. In addition, BMR also offers a tutorial for its customers to help the latter remove backlinks to a particular site.

If You’re Building Links via Link Networks…
Obviously, not everyone out there is utilizing link networks to build backlinks. But there are definitely those that rely on link networks massively. Though it’s not entirely bad to use such networks, the best idea is to not depend on just one link network for building backlinks for your niche sites. There are still multiple blog networks that are going strong. However, you need to use your brains and take every step with caution so that you can prevent (unexpected) penalties.

Don’t freak out. Google will always continue to do things it wants to do. The biggest piece of advice that you can use is to diversify your link building efforts as much as possible. If you’re using several sources to build links, it won’t destroy everything in case one of those networks gets hit.

Building a diverse backlinks profile is all about finding more opportunities, analyzing them and leveraging those that look credible.

A truly diverse backlinks profile may include -

Text links
Image links
Country code domain links
Do-follow links
No-follow links
Links from .net, .org, .edu sites

You May Still Use Some of Those Networks!
The de-indexing of BMR is a special case actually. What you must note in this case is that BMR is built around a network of sites that are owned by the same link building service. [These sites belong to just one owner]. On the other hand, there are other link networks that thrive around a community. They have a network of sites that belong to different individuals like you and me. That’s why you really need to rack your brains before making a SEO decision.

Getting the point? Please feel free to share your own opinions and thoughts by casting your vote in the poll below.

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What Twitter User Really Sends You Traffic & Your Most Popular Posts on Twitter

Want to find out who is really sending the most traffic to your website via Twitter? Look no further than the t.co domain in your Traffic Sources. When you click on this, you will see the specific t.co links that have led visitors to your website.

Copy the Referral Path listed, then paste it into your browser after http://t.co so you can go to the post or page that it references. In another tab (if you don’t have this already), install the Topsy Trackbacks bookmarklet on your bookmarks toolbar. Then go to the tab with your post and click on the Topsy bookmarklet. You will now see most of the tweets for your page in Topsy.

When you get to the All posts about this link section, scroll to the bottom and click on the more link until you’ve pulled most of the tweets for your post (which could take a while, depending on how many times the page has been tweeted). Then use your browser’s Find on Page (CTRL + F) and paste in the Referral Path again. It should take you to one (or more) tweets with the t.co link that you pulled from Google Analytics. The first person who tweeted it is the source of your Twitter traffic!

In my case, it was Dave Larson of TweetSmarter that I had to thank for the most traffic from Twitter for my post on how to start a blog on WordPress.

Going back to your Referral Paths from t.co, you can also use this to see which posts on your site get the most Twitter traffic. Simply click on the Secondary dimension dropdown and select Landing Page under Traffic Sources.

This will show you the posts each t.co link references.

Pages with Traffic from Image Search

Curious what posts or pages on your website get the most traffic from Google Images search? Find out by clicking on the google.com domain in your traffic sources and then click on the /imgres Referral Path. Next, use the Secondary dimension dropdown and, again, select Landing Page under Traffic Sources.

Be sure to check out the images on those pages to see if you can use similar images for future posts / pages on your site for more image related traffic!

Guest Posts, Comments, or Crowdsourcing

When you’re looking at your Traffic Sources, it’s easy to tell which source is related to your guest posting, commenting, or sites you contribute answers to for crowdsourced posts. If you do multiple activities on one site, then you need to click on that site’s domain and drill down to the Referral Paths to see which activity gets the best results from that site.

By drilling down on my own referral traffic from Social Media Examiner, I could see that it comes from a variety of things, including one guest post, making their top blog list, a crowdsourced post, and a link left to one of my posts in the forums.

LinkedIn Shares, Groups, Answers, or Company Pages

If you are active on LinkedIn and take advantage of different things such as sharing your posts on your profile, LinkedIn groups, LinkedIn Answers, or on your company page, then you will probably want to know which of those activities bring the most traffic to your website. Click on linkedin.com in your Traffic Sources to see the following.

Here, I can see that the most traffic comes from shares within groups (/news), followed by status updates (/home, /profile/view, and /share), more group shares (/groupItem), and Answers (/groupAnswers).

Most Popular Posts on StumbleUpon

It’s tough to find things on StumbleUpon sometimes, including which posts from your own sites are the most popular on their network. If you want to see which posts on your site get the most StumbleUpon traffic, click on stumbleupon.com in your Traffic Sources, then click on the refer.php Referral Path. Next, use the Secondary dimension dropdown and, again, select Landing Page under Traffic Sources.

Now you can see which posts have driven the most StumbleUpon traffic over the last year. This is great to reference when you are determining what new content you want to create and how it will fare on the SU network. Going forward, with the latest changes to the SU networks, you will just look at any links starting with /su/ in the Referral Paths.

If you enjoyed this post be sure to check out basic Google analytics tips.

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Learn What Technology Any Website Uses

There are three ways to find out technology a particular website is using. First off, you can visit the BuiltWith.com homepage and enter the domain name in the search box. Next, you can just enter http://builtwith.com/domain.com into your browser and change domain.com to the domain of the site you wish to view. Or you can download the Chrome Extension and click on the extension to see a popup with the website’s technology profile.

On the website’s profile page, you will find the following information (when applicable).

• Server Information – This doesn’t tell you where a site is hosted, but tells you the type of web server the site is hosted on.
• Content Management Systems – This will tell you if the website is using WordPress, Joomla, or a similar CMS.
• Ecommerce – This will tell you if the website is using an Ecommerce system like E-junkie or other shopping cart software.
• Frameworks – This will tell you the programming framework of the website. For WordPress, it will commonly be PHP.
• Advertising – This will tell you what advertising systems are being used on a website such as Google AdSense and some affiliate networks.
• Analytics and Tracking – This will tell you if a site uses Google Analytics, StatCoutner, or similar analytics system. Aweber’s mailing list code sometimes pops up into this area too.
• JavaScript Libraries – This will tell you about the different JavaScript coding libraries called in the website’s coding.
• Audio / Video – This will tell you about any technology such as Vimeo, YouTube, or other media found on the website.
• Widgets – This will tell you about different widgets and add-ons a website is using, including social sharing buttons. It will pull information about some WordPress plugins, but most will just be lumped under WordPress Plugins.
• Aggregation Functionality – This will tell you about the RSS and pingback functionality of a site, including whether it uses Feedburner.
• Document Information & Encoding – This will tell you more about the website’s coding, like if it uses HTML, CSS, etc.

View Trends About Website Technology

While you are viewing a website’s technology profile you can click on the link for any technology listed to see more data about its usage. Alternatively, you can visit theTechnology Trends page and see the top technology used across the Internet. For example, if you clicked on WordPress, you would see the following.

Trending Usage‘

This chart shows you if a particular piece of technology is increasing or decreasing in popularity. In this case, usage of WordPress is definitely increasing.

Industries

Find out what industries use a particular piece of technology the most. This pie chart shows that, aside from the Other category, WordPress seems to be used equally amongst different niches.

Similar Coverage

See what website technology is similar to the application you are viewing. In this case, the next most popular technology similar to WordPress is Joomla.

Top Sites

Want to see the biggest sites using a particular piece of technology? Click on the Top Sites list on the application page.

Get a Glimpse of a Website’s Search Engine Optimization

If you want to check out a website’s SEO information, click on the SEO Profile tab. This will give you a little analysis of basic SEO elements such as your title tag, meta description, H1 heading tag, common keywords (as shown in the pie chart above), image ALT tags, website speed, and social bookmarking stats on Facebook & Delicious. It also gives you an overall score plus a score of where your website ranks compared to others. Apparently 57% is a good score if 97% of other websites score below that!

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There are many SEO tips that are not only good for search engines but they are very helpful for people looking for and perusing through your website. Here are nine SEO tips you can do to help search engines and visitors love your site.

1. Keywords and Research

If you choose the right keywords for your homepage and your internal pages, blog posts, etc., you will be helping visitors find what they are searching for easier. The best way to do this is to think of a keyword that fits your page, then a 2 – 3 word phrase that fits including that keyword. It’s really as simple as that.

Keyword Resources

• Google Adwords Keywords Tool
• Google Insights (plus ideas on how to use Insights)
• Microsoft Advertising Intelligence plugin for Excel (plus how to use it)
• Popular Searches
• Anchor text

2. Titles

The title tag is important because it is the heading for search engine listings and it is usually the anchor text when people bookmark your homepage, blog post, or single page on your website. The easiest way to create a title for your page is to include the keyword phrase you thought of during keyword research and include it in the up to 70 character description of your page.

Title Resources

• Title tag best practices
• Creating Killer headlines
• All in One or Platinum SEO for WordPress

3. Meta Descriptions

The meta description is essentially your sales pitch for your page when it comes up in search engines. It is also usually the description that is picked up when people bookmark your site socially. To create a good meta description, create a short sentence or two under 155 characters that includes the main keyword phrase for your page.

Meta Descriptions Resources

• Ultimate guide to meta descriptions
• Meta description best practices

4. Header Tags

Header tags break up your page into easily digestible sections to help readability. Think of your page’s content in outline form – the header tags break up each main section of your text. Header tags should include keyword phrases you would like your page to rank for.

Also, note that the text right after your header tag can play a significant role. For example, I had an H3 header in one of my recent posts that said Most Valuable Guides (not the best keywords, but bear with me). In search results, without any other optimization, link building, etc., search engines pick up that phrase as follows:

So needless to say, header tags are valuable and need to be optimized as well as careful consideration given to the first sentence after the header tag as well.

5. Images

<img src="seo-optimized-image.jpg" alt="A SEO Optimized Image" title="A SEO Optimized Image" />

To get the most out of your keywords and help break up text for visitors with something eye catching, be sure to include an image in your post with keywords in the filename, alt text, and title.

Where does the alt tag come into play outside of SEO? If you were visually impaired and using a screen reader, the alt text would be read to you by your program.

Image Resources

• SEO optimizing images.
• Creative Commons and Flickr image search
• Image copyright laws
• SEO friendly images WordPress plugin

6. Internal Linking

Once people get on your site, you want them to stick around and find more relevant content. Using internal linking will help them learn more about what your site has to offer, especially if you are using the right anchor text as a guide.

Internal Linking Resources

• Never use nofollow on internal links
• SEO Smart Links WordPress plugin

7. Link Building

So what benefit does link building have to offer potential visitors without mentioning any SEO benefits? When I am seeking out link building opportunities, I find that pages already offering their visitors resources for a particular topic. Link building is simply offering another site’s visitors more resources to choose from for more options.

Link Building Resources

• Top 100+ link building resources.
• Link building for beginners.

8. Social Media

Social networking allows you to really connect with your website’s audience, which helps you learn more about their needs and create content, product, and services that will really appeal to them.

In link building, even though Twitter, for example, only gives you nofollow links, someone who sees your link through Twitter may like it so much that they link to it in their blog or elsewhere on their website, which essentially means that nofollow social media link turned into a dofollow one.

Also, it’s not just the social networking you do – it’s the social sharing you make possible. Installing buttons or widgets to make your site more socially sharable makes it easier for your visitors to tell the world about you!

Social Media Resources

• Top social media blogs
• Social media snapshot series: your hub, content, network, and impact, plus creating a dashboard on a spreadsheet.
• Add This, Add to Any, and WordPress plugins

9. Guest Blogging

Last but not least is the ever popular guest blogging. If you have expertise that others would benefit from, then guest blogging will help you share that knowledge with an even wider audience. If your visitors are also bloggers, you can even help them by guest blogging on their site, sending some of your visitors in their direction. The benefits to doing both of these (the right way) are really exponential in helping establish yourself as an authority in your industry.

Guest Blogging Resources

• My Blog Guest
• How guest blogging gets subscribers, links, and even a better Google ranking
• A comprehensive guest blogging guide

Your Thoughts on Search Optimization for Visitors

What ways do you optimize for SEO with your visitors in mind, and what tools and resources would you suggest to help other website and blog owners to do the same?Similar Posts:

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Chrome Seo for modern search engine optimizers, search engine marketers and webmasters. Now more than ever seo is tied directly to the live web and real-time actions. Blog farms and scrapers, gave way to mass social spam and vote rigging. Brokering links was safe, then unsafe for Google whitehat seo, and everything in between. Page rank was abandoned even though its still with us. No-follow links and page sculpting turned out to be a shame, even with proof of concept.

Now oddly like once before we must track the structure and wider statistics. Serp rank, page rank, site rankings and social authority all now weigh against the new real-time focus. Links are still important but reputation global impact and social reach are just as much a search ranking factor in modern search analysis.

Google’s chrome browser has been with us now for many month but only recently opened the extension arsenal to the world. Social tools, blog extensions, seo plugins and more can all be found. That was half the problem. With so many changes happening every day in the world of search more than the same old tools were needed. With so many old idea once again seeing the light of viable search marketing use, the old tools were sorely needed.

After weeks of trolling the Google extensions directory I was able to round up a multi-layer seo toolkit of chrome extensions. Combine they can take a large chunk of dismay in your conversion to chrome, the extensions we need to assess our clients sites, links and reputation are now includable. The list includes three sections of focus, seo data, site research and technical helpers for the search marketers and seo’s trade.

The SEO ranking and Analysis Section:

Chrome SEO

The Google Chrome SEO extension provides easy access to Search Engine Optimization Tools that can help you with Competitive Analysis, Keyword Research, Backlink Checks and other daily SEO tasks. [link]

Current functions list:

• Pages Indexed on: Bing, Google, Yahoo
• Backlinks as reported by : Alexa, Bing, Google, MajesticSeo, Yahoo
• Current Traffic and Rankings as reported by : Alexa, Compete, Google PageRank, Quantcast, SEMRush, Technorati
• Social Bookmark counts on : Delicious, Digg, Dmoz, StumbleUpon,
• Cached Versions of the website from : Archive.org, CoralCDN, Google, WebCite
• Domain Details such as : DNS, IP Address, Server Location, Whois details

Kuber PageRank Checker

This handy SEO tool shows you the Google PageRank of webpages beside the address box. If the PageRank of the page in current tab is not available, the tool shows the PageRank of the domain instead, prefixed with ‘S’. The PageRank value is cached locally, so it doesn’t have to hit the server every time you switch tab. Moreover, click the icon Alexa rank of the site is displayed in dropdown, as well as links-in number and WHOIS check link. [link] Developer website

META SEO inspector

Meta data is not just the usual HTML meta tags, but the XFN tags, various microformats, the recently introduced canonical attribute, the no-follow links and so on.

This extension is mainly aimed at web developers that need to verify the description tag of their site to follow the Webmasters’ Google Guidelines, SEO, or even to who is curious about page contents that are usually not visible, but can reveal interesting site properties.

Alerts are showed when the meta data is not within certain ranges, for example when the description tag is too short, or too long.

There are links to info-sites ( mainly SEO-oriented ) pointing to the exact page about the site you are watching. [link] Developer website

PageRank

The ‘Fastest’ and very light weight. It shows Google page rank on toolbar. [link] Developer website

SEO

This Chrome SEO plugin implements the SEO Playground Tool (Bookmarklet) by David Naylor. Making it easier to use in Chrome. [link] Developer website

SeoQuake Lite

Display the Google PageRank and Alexa rank of any webpages, in your browser (right-bottom). It’s similar the SearchStatus for FireFox but it works in Chrome. SeoQuake Lite is FAST and SIMPLE [link] Developer website

SeoQuake

Inclusion of parameters in SERPs: After submission of the query into the search engine user is presented with SERP with search results. SeoQuake shows values of the parameters for search results under each result shown on SERP.

SeoQuake is a Chrome extension, which allows user to view a large number of SE parameters on the fly. Displays the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and other SEO parameters of any webpage, highlights nofollow links.

SeoQuake is Chrome SEO extension aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization (SEO) and internet promotion of web sites. SeoQuake allows it’s users to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters of the internet project under study on the fly, save them for future work, compare them with the results, obtained for other, competitive, projects.

Beginner web masters and seos will find SeoQuake useful for estimating effectiveness and competitive ability of their SEO efforts. In the hands of professional SeoQuake will become a powerful and indispensable tool for analyzing optimization and promotion level of internet web-projects. [link] Developer website

Full list of SEO parameters:

• Google PageRank
• Google Index
• Yahoo links
• Yahoo linkdomain
• Bing index
• Alexa Rank
• Webarchive age
• Delicious index
• Whois link
• Page source
• SEMRush rank
• Nofollow links

SEO SERP

A simple tool to quickly check the position of a list of sites given a keyword. For example, on the sample image you can see Wikipedia ranking #3 and Amazon ranking 16 for the keyword "lcd".

Countries available:
com, brazil, india, japan, uk, germany, spain, france, italy, netherland [link] Developer website

SEO Status Pagerank/Alexa Toolbar

SEO Status is lightweight. It will check the Google Pagerank (PR) & Alexa rank for every page. Using this may increase your Alexa.

The PageRank and Alexa rank do not rely on a third-party website to gather its data, but retrieves it from Google and Alexa directly. When the button is clicked, it shows more data such as an Alexa traffic graph, ranking number, and useful tools for the avid webmaster. [link] Developer website

When you click the extension icon it will show the additional information:

• Alexa rank number
• Google PR and PR bar
• Backlinks link
• Whois link
• Domain availabiliy for other TLDs

The Section of Google Chrome Research and Metrics Tools

Analytics Helper

Detects if Google Analytics script is installed on page. Displays a notification in the omnibar if a Google Analytics UA code is detected in the web page, if no UA script is found, the icon is not shown either. Hover over the notification icon to see list of UA codes detected. [link]

BuiltWith Technology Profiler

Find out what the website you are visiting is built with using this extension.

BuiltWith is a web site profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page. BuiltWith’s goal is to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies pages are using which may help them to decide what technologies to implement themselves.

The BuiltWith Chrome Extension lets you find out what a website is built with by a simple click on the builtwith icon!

BuiltWith technology tracking includes widgets (snap preview), analytics (Google, Nielsen), frameworks (.NET, Java), publishing (WordPress, Blogger), advertising (DoubleClick, AdSense), CDNs (Amazon S3, Limelight), standards (XHTML,RSS), hosting software (Apache, IIS, CentOS, Debian). [link]

Chrome Flags

Chrome Flags displays a country flag indicating about the physical location of the websites you’re visiting. The extension also provides access to detailed information regarding the website’s servers, owners, traffic and trustworthiness.

During visiting a web page you’ll notice a flag icon on the address bar. That flag tells you where the server you’re visiting is actually hosted. [link]

If you click on the flag, a popup menu provides quick links to additional details:

• IP address.
• Who owns it (whois)
• Web analytic information from Google Trends, Quantcast, Compete and Alexa.
• McAfee Site Advisor.
• Users opinion from WOT – Web Of Trust

DNS.l4x.org Resolver

With the ‘DNS.l4x.org Resolver’ extension you can handily look-up DNS records of the page you’re viewing. The extension can show you IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, mail-servers (MX), aliases (CNAME) and nameservers (NS). The addresses are retrieved and link to https://dns.l4x.org, where further information, like whois excerpts and screenshots can be found. The small badge next to the icon informs you in a blink of an eye of the number of found records. As an extra feature, the extension will also show you your externally visible IP address.

Privacy: The extension will securely contact https://dns.l4x.org (Run privately by the author of this extension) if you open the popup to retrieve the necessary data. No personal data is collected, and the IP addresses of the requests will not be linked to the retrieved domain names. If you want the small badge with the number of records, you have to activate it under the options dialog as it sends a request for _each_ new domain you’re visiting. Results are cached. [link] Developer website

Domain Details

Shows server’s IP address, country flag, software, headers, and provides links to whois reports [link] Developer website

Domain Details provides the following information on the site you are visiting:

• Server IP Address
• Server’s Location. Based on a Geo IP database in the extension, does not poll an external service.
• Server Software. Shows icons for common servers.
• View server response headers within the extension
• Domain Whois Links
• Additional links to useful domain information

SitezMeter

SitezMeter displays traffic charts from Google Trends, Alexa and Compete side by side, as well as ranks. [link] Developer website

This browser companion provides users with extensive information about web sites traffic – instantly find out how popular a web site is, its rank, and how fast it is growing.

With SitezMeter you can quickly compare traffic of up to 3 websites.

SitezMeter is a handy tool to webmaster, web site owner and SEO/SEM specialists.

HostTitle

An extension that appends the hostname of the site to the title bar. [link] Developer website

Site Information Tool

Shows information about the current page (PageRank, Alexa rank, IP info, server response headers, whois and other SEO parameters) Site Information Tool button allows one to explore the most valuable information about the current opened page. [link] Developer website

Site Information Tool includes:

• Rankings information (Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete.com rank, Quantcast rank, Technorati rank)
• IP address information (IP, network name & range, country)
• Linking information (indexed pages count, inbound links count, etc.)
• Server response headers
• Page information (title, meta tags, size)
• This page in social networks (del.icio.us, digg.com)
• Domain whois information (domain nameservers, registrant & owner information)
• Feed subscribers count
• List of top performing keywords in Google
• Competitors list

Social Graph Analyzer

Discover profile pages whose owner is similar to the page you’re currently browsing. Try Twitter, FriendFeed, Facbook or similar site to start analysis. [links] Developer website

WOT (web of Trust)

Web of Trust is a safe browsing tool, which warns you about risky sites that cheat customers, deliver malware or send spam. [link] Developer website

WOT’s safe browsing tool warns you about risky sites that can’t be trusted: Online shops that cheat customers; download sites that deliver malware; sites that send spam; and those with inappropriate content for kids.
Millions of members of the WOT community rate websites based on their experiences, giving you an extra layer of protection when browsing or searching the Web. The WOT add-on provides reputation ratings to search results when you use Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Wikipedia and other popular sites. Your Gmail, Yahoo! mail and Hotmail account is also protected.

Technical and Helper Tools Section:

Chromeleon User-Agent Spoofer

Chromeleon is a navigator.userAgent and navigator.vendor spoofing extension. This allows Chrome users to access sites that intentionally or unintentionally serve incompatible content or block Chrome. The extension allows you to set a specific filtering list, so Chromeleon will automatically switch user-agent strings based on the domain or URL you specify. Also, it will use and auto-update a list of sites known to use incorrect user-agent sniffing (which can be disabled.)

Chromeleon does not modify HTTP headers because the Chrome Extensions API doesn’t yet have a way to change them. Sites that sniff user-agent strings at the network level will see through the spoofing. Fortunately, most sites just detect the user-agent at the JavaScript level. [link] Developer website

iMacros for Chrome

iMacros was designed to automate the most repetitious tasks on the web. If there’s an activity you have to do repeatedly, just record it in iMacros. The next time you need to do it, the entire macro will run at the click of a button!

With iMacros, you can quickly and easily fill out web forms, remember passwords, create a webmail notifier, and more. You can keep the macros on your computer for your own use, use them within bookmark sync / Xmarks or share them with others by embedding them on your homepage, blog, company Intranet or any social bookmarking service as bookmarklet. [link] Developer website

Popular uses are as web macro recorder, form filler on steroids and highly-secure password manager (256-bit AES encryption). Web developers use iMacros for web regression testing, performance testing and web transaction monitoring. It can also be combined with Google Speed Tracer, Firebug and other web development and test tools. XPath support is included.

iMacros can be combined with Greasemonkey style content scripts and the macros can be started via the command line e. g. via the Windows task scheduler, batch files or a Linux crown job. You can combine iMacros with ad-blocking extensions like AdBlock, FlashBlock and AdThwart to speed up the web browsing.

Macros recorded with iMacros for Chrome can be replayed in iMacros for IE and iMacros for Firefox without changes! All iMacros versions combined have millions of active users, making it the most popular web browser automation tool.

Search Center

Quick Search of common sites & search engines without having to re-type your search every time. Remembers your last search, or what text you have selected. Can add custom sites from the options page. [link] Developer website

Session Manager

With Session Manager you can quickly save your current browser state and reload it whenever necessary.
You can manage multiple sessions, rename or remove them from the session library.
Each session remembers the state of the browser at its creation time, i.e the opened tabs and windows.
Once a session is opened, the browser is restored to its state. [link]

Some common usage:

• Create sessions for daily routines: Pages you open on morning, noon and evening
• Group pages of common interest such as News, Financial and Social Networks.
• Save the pages found during a research session that you’d like to revisit later.

Shareaholic

Share, save, research or email any web page with your friends right from the page you are on using Twitter, Facebook, GMail, and many more! This extension adds a button to your browser toolbar. Click the share icon whenever you want to share, save, or e-mail the page you’re visiting. Add an optional personal note and send to your friends. Share directly to your favorite services by customizing Shareaholic settings. Shareaholic currently supports over 100 services with weekly updates and additions. [link] Developer website

A sample of the supported services:

WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal, Posterous, Soup.io, Tumblr, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Delicious, Google Bookmarks, StumbleUpon, Dwellicious, Bebo, Mister Wong, Evernote, Netvibes, Stumpedia, Twine, Amazon Wish List, Connotea, Diigo, Folkd, Simpy, Box.net, Google Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Share Button, AOL Mail, Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird, Mail, Buzzster, Digg, Yahoo Buzz, Reddit, Google Reader, Techmeme, YC Hacker News, ShareThis, Shareholic, SmakNews, Tipd, Care2, Current, Fark, Khabbr, Mixx, NewsTrust, NowPublic, Propeller, Slashdot, Sphinn, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Orkut, Plurk, Identi.ca, Mozillaca, FriendFeed, Hyves, LinkedIn, Netlog, Plaxo, Tweetie, Hub.tm, Hubspot, Bit.ly, Is.gd, j.mp, TinyURL, Goo.gl, Tr.im, Clicky.me, Su.pr, Instapaper, PrintFriendly, Read It Later, Yammer, Google Translate, Box.ne

As you can see, there are many old familiar seo tools, some with slight changes other nearly the same. Many of the newer metrics and trust based tools have been getting some buzz of late and are a very large part of the new world of management in both reputation and rankings. As the extensions are being made faster than any individual can find them all, by all means comment us if we missed something great. The more tools at our combined disposal, the better our entire industry will fair.

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An SEO minded roundup of Google Chrome Extensions Blogged by Mich (@MichDe) De L’Orme

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