One has to have an edge over the competition to be successful in any chosen field. Just like in search engine optimization, it is important to have a unique advantage which others in the same niche don’t have. Tools abound to provide turnkey solutions for webmasters and which are easy to use even for the non-techies. It is very seldom for the site admins and webmasters not to know about these tools and how to use them. But it wouldn’t be so bad if they go a little much further and try other nifty tools.

One of these tools is SEO for Firefox which provides additional data, aside from the obvious ones, necessary when you are really serious in topping the search engines. SEO for Firefox lets you see several information about websites while they are still in SERPs. So you don’t have to visit them in order to make analysis of them. This tool shows the following data: PR, age of domain name, links, .edu link, .edu page link, .gov link, page links, del.icio.us, Technorati, Alexa, cached, DMOZ, Bloglines, dir.yahoo.com, Whois, and whether a site’s link is found in Wikipedia. This tool links to the sources of information, allowing the user to click on it to dig deeper. This tool gives you so much data, but if you want, you can choose which data will appear on SERPs. These data appear at the bottom of each listed site in the SERPs.

Also, SEO for Firefox links to other research tools such as Keyword Research (SEO Book Keyword Research Tool), Google Trends which shows historical volume trends, Google Tracffic Estimator that shows top bid estimates and click volume estimates, and the Google Keyword Sandbox. These appear at the bottom of the search fields of Yahoo and Google.

What’s great with SEO for Firefox is that it does not stop at delivering the required info, it also continues to improve the quality of service it gives by giving accurate and reliable data. The tool can be upgraded continually. As a whole, using SEO for Firefox allows you to see the bigger picture of the competitive environment of a certain market, revealing possible marketing strategies for webmasters and SEO specialists. SEO for Firefox, however, works only for Firefox since it has to be installed as an add-on.

SEO for Firefox is a very useful tool that webmasters and SEO specialists can use for free. This is a truly great help for those who wanted to have top ranking websites. This is especially essential for those who are new in the market.