Irish SEO Tool Add on For FireFox

Everyone who works in online marketing or is developing their own web site will have various SEO and FireFox add on’s and software tools that they use. For the next while I am going to list some of my favorite and sometimes not so favorite tools.

RedFly Marketing are one of the few Irish companies that have developed a FireFox plugin. I use it simply because it is easier to use than entering the text details myself. (&gl=country code – at the end of the search string)

Their FireFox plugin allows you to easily see the search results in other geographic locations. If you are in Ireland and search using Google, as most people do, then you will be getting results that are influenced by the Irish index. If you can think of Google as huge databases it will help. They have a database for just Irish results so you can click on “pages from Ireland” and this will give you only pages from Ireland.

If you use Google.com in Ireland the results are influenced by your geographic location, therefore the website at the top in Google.com in Ireland is often not the same website that is at the top if the same search is done in the UK or the US for example.

If you are only competing in Ireland and have no care what happens to your website outside of Ireland this may be of no interest to you, however if you sell online this is unlikely to be the case. For example if you search for “B&B Kerry” the same website is at no1 in the US, UK, and Ireland – however the no 2 and beyond change – this information I am sure is very important to the website that is no1, and for the rest who are trying to get that spot.

This plugin is easy to use, just go to the RedFly site and download and install using FireFox. You will be prompted to restart FireFox, do so. Once installed you only have to right click on the screen and go to “Search Google Global” and chose the geographical location to see the different search results.

So the next time your search engine optimisation team tell you just to do a search on Google.com – well they might just have a surprise.