SEO Quake is one of my favourite Firefox addons to help with SEO (will write down a page with all my favourites shortly). It’s a great way of checking your inbound links, Alexa Rank (which is incredibly important), keyword density (which is also incredibly important), directory listings, whois and all sorts of things I spend a large proportion of my day doing.
Anyway, I saw that this site had 4 backlinks from Google (which is great! Usually I use Yahoo Site Explorer to find backlinks, as it indexes a lot more a lot quicker - though not as quick as being on my RSS feed, thanks to SEO 2.0 for listing me as one of the 10 Must Read SEO, Online Marketing & Web Development Blogs), so - clicking on the link button, I tried to explore the links.
Instead I got this.
Has Google banned SEO Quake? I hope not, as I do love it (I will give a guide on how to use it effectively later!). Anybody else had this problem? I’ve managed to replicate it on two different computers. Hopefully it’s only a temporary thing.
Furthermore, I’m I right in assuming that Google in general don’t like these things, because it increases server load etc.?
on Nov 26th, 2008 at 11:36 am
We use SEOQuake a lot here, and usually after around 1 hours worth of usage we’ll find that Google flags up that we need to enter a Captcha to continue searching, or in some cases stop our use altogether.
It is because everytime you load a page you also end up asking Google for around 10 different pieces of data.
What we do now to limit the problem is only turn Quake on when needed, and turn off any features we don’t need to use Quake for (such as PR as the Google Toolbar gives that info anyway).