SEO Toolbar Updates

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New in 1.1.25 ... 1.2.3 ...

• Updated internal rank checker for Google SERP changes
• Added ahrefs link data to toolbar. This data includes unique linking domains pointing into a website & the unique linking domains pointing into a specific web page.
  • ahref's includes both a propreitary link database (like Majestic SEO & OpenSiteExplorer) and a competitive research tool (like SEMRush).
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• Added support for Firefox 10 through 34

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SEO Toolbar Installation Issues

Left Aligned With No Buttons

Having issues getting the SEO Toolbar to work? The most common issue users run into is a need to restore defaults (as sometimes they are not set up on install, or during updates). If you have this problem it will look something like the following image (with all the lines left aligned and no buttons displayed)

To fix that issue (by restoreing default sets) you need to click up top in Firefox (above the address bar), then click on customize.

That will open up a window which has a button at the bottom named "restore default set." Click on that and the toolbar should work.

Toolbar Too Wide?

Does your toolbar run long horizontally? once you go into the customize option (pictured above) you can decrease its width 2 ways

1. At the bottom of the customize menu make sure it is set to "icons" rather than "text and icons."
2. If there are particular buttons you do not use much you can remove them from the toolbar.

The other issue some people have is that they accidentally turn it off and forget how to turn it back on. The on/off options are in the dropdown menu that appears when you click on the SEO Book logo.

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Past Updates

 

New in 1.1.22 ... 1.1.24...

• Added support for Firefox 9
• Added support for Firefox 8
• Added Blekko link data buttons to toolbar (to replace Yahoo!)
• Removed references to the discontinued Yahoo! Site Explorer

New in 1.1.13 ... 1.1.21 ...

• Updated Yahoo! link data
• Added support for Firefox 5 (still works on later versions of FF4, but no longer supports FF3.6 or FF 4.0.1)
• Added support for Firefox 6 & 7

New in 1.1.4 to 1.1.12 ...

• Added Blekko Hostrank
• Updated internal Rank Checker
  
• Fixed Archive.org site-age data grabber
  
• Fixed "view source in tab" behavior
  
• and many minor changes

New in 1.1 to 1.1.3 ...

• link data from SEOmoz's Open Site Explorer added
• directory links consolidated into a drop down menu called "dir" (to free up space to display more link data)
• PageRank drop down now...
  • automatically pulls in the Google cache date
  • also links to a quick link to the Bing cache date

New in 1.0.18 ...

• Updated internal Rank Checker with new features & for Google's new search results.
• Modified other Google data grabbers to fit new search result format
• Speed & coding improvements

New in 1.0.11 ... 1.0.17...

• Updates to Delicious & StumbleUpon integration
• Internal Rank Checker pulls from Bing API
• Link to Business.com listings search added
• Majestic SEO button added to active toolbar (in the past it was only available under the Information button or when comparing sites).
• View source button moved from toolbar to become an option in the "Competition" menu.

New in 1.0.8 ... 1.0.10 ...

• Now compatible with Firefox 3.5.
• Updated internal Rank Checker to allow up to 100 characters in URLs and keywords.
• Fixed minor issue with view-source button.

New in 1.0.7

• Fixed issue with some URLs that had spaces in them.
• Fixed issue with not pulling in all BOTW listings.

New in 1.0.6

• Fixed "show ppc urls" function. Some users complained that urls are encoded non properly when there are UTF characters in them.
• Added Google Ad Planner to competitive research tools list. Please note: if you see the 500 Internal error at Google, sign up for Ad Planner.
• Added SEO Community RSS feed to new installs. If you want to see this feed in your toolbar you can either manually add it, or uninstall and reinstall the toolbar.

New in 1.0.4 & 1.0.5

• Fixed issue with on/off working globally, rather than just on toolbar buttons.
• Fixed a minor PageRank bug for some URLs that have a query string in them.

New in 1.0.3

• Updated the SEO Toolbar's internal Rank Checker
• Fixed bug where Yahoo! Search was not showing results in Yahoo! US for some users.
• Fixed some internal optimization issues
• Added delete warning (delete keyword, delete preset, delete schedule)
• Changed "clear preset" dialog
• When loading, old positions are loaded
• Main window size is persistent
• Fixed broken scheduler (well, the scheduler was actually working, but it had one interesting "feature" (can't remember why): it wasn't updating keyword positions if they were already checked the same day).
• The Google Adwords Keyword Tool now receives URLs & keywords (in the past these did not pre-populate on this particular tool)
• Added competitive research oriented "Show PPC links" near each PPC listing (and links to the Adwords Keyword Tool & SEM Rush). You can turn this feature on or off under the toolbar's "competition" tab.
  
• Added affiliate links to BOTW and SEM Rush (to help subsidize the future costs of building and maintaining this tool, without making it any uglier, more intrusive, or less functional).

New in version 1.0.2...

• The biggest user complaint with the first version of the SEO Toolbar was horizontal toolbar size/width. To help fix this issue the toolbar now defaults to showing logos only (rather than logos and text) and we replaced the fairly wide "SEO Toolbar" logo with one for "SEO Book" which saves the width of 3 characters.
• Under the site info button we added website homepage PageRank. In the past we only showed page PageRank, but now we show both.
• The site info button wasn't working when moved to foreign toolbars, but it does now.
• We created this updates page :) and an advanced SEO Toolbar tips page.

General Usage Walkthrough Video

Basic Usage Tips

More usage tips on the download and overview page.

Advanced Usage Tips

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Installation Issues

Having issues getting the SEO Toolbar to work? The most common issue users run into is a need to restore defaults (as sometimes they are not set up on install). To do that you need to click up top in Firefox (above the address bar), then click on customize. That will open up a window which has a button at the bottom named "restore default set." Click on that and the toolbar should work.

The other issue some people have is that they accidentally turn it off and forget how to turn it back on. The on/off options are in the dropdown menu that appears when you click on the SEO Book logo.

Other Useful Related Firefox Extensions and Goodies:

• SEO for Firefox offers data similar to the SEO Toolbar, but in directly inline with the search results on Google and Yahoo! Search.
• Rank Checker is well worth a look for tracking your rankings.
• View a list of related useful extensions on our SEO extension page.

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