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Using Firefox is becoming more the norm with many internet users.One of the best things that you can do with the browser is add plugins and tools to make life easier. I have listed below several great Firefox plugins for SEO:

SEOpen - 23 different metrics from back links on Yahoo and Google to Archived pages, whois and checking robots.txt.

SEO For Firefox -Aaron Wall’s clever and configurable tool with 13 different signals ranging from domain age and Page Rank to del.icio.us bookmark and .edu inbound links.

yExplore - Thomas’ handy tool offering easy right click access to Yahoo Site Explorer info.

The Google Analytics Reporting Suite brings Google Analytics to the desktop, with a host of features that help you understand how your website is performing and where you can improve. From tracking your visitors, referrals and campaigns to viewing your AdWords ROI metrics, the Google Analytics Reporting suite is a must-have for every web business.

I have just found this application online I have just installed it on my PC at work and my Apple Macbook Pro and it just rocks. Its quick and it holds all your different username and passwords and is just a smooth way of looking at you Google analytics for all your websites in one application.

Do you have a robots.txt file set up on your server?

Here’s what Google says in their Webmaster Guidelines:

Make use of the robots.txt file on your web server. This file tells crawlers which directories can or cannot be crawled. Make sure it’s current for your site so that you don’t accidentally block the Googlebot crawler.

Visit robotstxt.org to learn how to instruct robots when they visit your site.

Google has always strived to give the end user the best and most appropriate results for the end user and has managed this very successfully and will continue to do so. Google Analytics was launched to give webmasters the ability to track websites via a small piece of java code that Google will track for you and give you the most accurate stats it can for your websites. Well it has just got better.

You can now track multiple data points in one graph, track downloads, track specific pages and much much more. Google have released this in beta mode for all users, one thing you will need to do is remove the old urchin.js code and replace it with the new ga.js code.