Firefox gets all the cool toys
- SEO for Firefox - The best. Gives you all sorts of info about each listing. Invaluable.
- Google Preview - Get a Snaps.com-like screenshot of websites inline with your search
- GoogleEnhancer – Adds item numbers and favicons to Google search results
These add-ons make browsing much easier when you’re doing some SEO research. There are no cool Safari SEO Plugins (ask Google, it’s true), but I wasn’t satisfied…so I made my own (kinda).
I am pleased to announce the best Safari SEO plugin alternative.
The SEO User Stylesheet
This user stylesheet can be used by all browsers: Safari, Firefox, Opera and IE
I’ve added the top search engines to this stylesheet so that whenever you do a search on any major search engine, the search results will be numbered, including the paid advertising.
Internet Explorer users: the items marked with the asterisk (*) will not work in Internet Explorer. Do yourself a favor and get a good browser.
Search engines included in the stylesheet:
- MSN/Live
- Yahoo!
- AOL Search
- Netscape.com
- Ask.com *
- AltaVista *
- Snap.com *
- AlltheWeb.com *
- Gigablast.com *
In order to use this stylesheet, you must add seo-stylesheet.css as your browser’s user stylesheet. Here are links that will help you set it up:
Set up a style sheet in:
- Safari user stylesheet setup
- Internet Explorer user stylesheet setup
- Firefox user stylesheet setup
- Opera user stylesheet setup
You can create a .css file using the code below, or download the SEO Stylesheet here.
The SEO stylesheet code:
/*
From http://yoast.com/user-stylesheet-nofollows/
The following styles will show you which links do not pass
PageRank juice.
*/
/* Nofollow links */
a[rel~=nofollow] {
background-color: pink!important;
color: black !important;
font-weight: normal !important;
text-decoration: underline !important;
}
/* Nofollow images */
a[rel~=nofollow] img {
border-bottom: 3px solid pink !important;
}
/*
From http://katzwebdesign.wordpress.com/?p=333
The following styles will number the search engine results for
easier SEO searching.
*/
#gsr li, /* Google */
#sw_page li, /* MSN Live */
#ysch #results li, /* Yahoo! */
.results .MSL li, /* AOL Search */
#grid .w .expander li /* Netscape.com */
{
list-style: decimal inside!important;
}
#grid .w .expander li span.map_venname /* Netscape.com */
{ color:white; text-indent:-1.5em; }
#results, /* AltaVista */
#teoma-results, /* Ask.com */
#webResults, /* AlltheWeb.com Paid */
.resultWell, /* AlltheWeb.com Organic */
#mainframe #results2, /* Snap.com Organic */
#mainframe .sponsored-results, /* Snap.com Paid */
#mainframe #search-col2, /* Snap.com Paid */
td.feed table.results /* Gigablast.com */
{
counter-reset: section;
}
#results a.res:before, /* AltaVista */
#teoma-results a.L4:before, /* Ask.com */
#webResults p.result:before, /* AlltheWeb.com Paid */
.resultWell p.result:before, /* AlltheWeb.com Organic */
#mainframe #results2 h3.result_title:before, /* Snap.com Organic */
#mainframe .sponsored-results h3.result_title:before, /* Snap.com Paid */
#mainframe #search-col2 h3.result_title:before, /* Snap.com Paid */
.feed table.results table.result .result-title:before /* Gigablast.com */
{
content: counter(section) ". ";
counter-increment: section;
}
Search engine screenshots using the SEO Stylesheet
Hope you enjoy! Leave feedback, issues, and suggestions below.
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This is brilliant work — I am looking forward to trying it out in Safari and Firefox. The nofollow attribute selectors are a great idea. Thanks for sharing this.
@Jeff – Glad you found it helpful. Are there any other search engines you’d like to see supported?
I think you covered all of the ones that I would ever use.. From time to time I will also check things out with xoost.com, but that is more of a social-media-type mashup of the major engines. In fact, I don’t even know if it’s out of beta testing yet..
This is a great idea.
CSS’s user style sheet features are radically underutilized, mostly because no one really understand the technology. It will take some browser evolution for something like this to actually become feasible for wider audiences and judging by how little UI support browsers give us for alternate style sheets, I don’t see that happening any time soon.
That said, again, great work, I like this a lot even if I can’t see an immediate killer application for it.
@Meitar – It’s hard enough trying to let people know how to use browser tabbed windows, let alone user stylesheets!
I have my Google results set to show me 100 results at a time; I had resorted to viewing Google without a style sheet to find out what listing number I was looking at. So this saved me the hassle.
Nice setup. Thanks for taking the time to make it. What are the chances of getting it to work in Chrome? (yeah I use chrome because its so much faster then IE or FF, just limited on functionality)
@youfoundjake – Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, Google Chrome does not currently support user stylesheets. This surprised me. I expect Google will include this feature in the future.
I have just recently downloaded Google Chrome, I wasn’t really in to all the hype of the release, but after using it, I have found it to be ideal and quick.
thanks a lot
Great work. Thanks, i’ll try it out
Very nice post, thanks!!!
Thanks for the article, just downloaded the latest seo extension for firefox “SEO for FIREFOX” and I must admit it would be really impressive if it worked properly. I wish the SERP would just supply the tools and tell us what they are thinking
There is a nice seo plugin for opera which does the css changes to nofollow or noindex and it also shows the alexa rank and google pr.
Just visit my site and search for “Opera SEO plugin”.
dude u r right about firefox being better than safari for SEO
Great work. Thanks, i’ll try it out
And great Bllog!
Alex