Is There Any Software That Will Show Me...

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I'm trying to find an application, preferably free, that will show me the meta info for Title, Description and Keywords of the top ten results from the first page of Google, Yahoo or Bing.

I've found several antiquated SEO programs that are either no longer supported, or they simply no longer work, but so far have failed to find anything that suits my needs that works properly.

A Firefox extension would be ideal for my needs, unfortunately the only one I've found was from 2004 (no longer in development) and in Japanese.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Mark
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  • Profile picture of the author Nour Saber
    Hey MisterE

    Here is a pretty cool plugin for firefox that give you a lot of information about google results and the websites on the first page (i guess its what are you looking for).

    It gives you each domain pagerank, number of backlinks , authority ..etc its called SEO Quake and here is the downloade page :

    hxxps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3036/

    (repleace xx with tt because iam new in here and not allowed to post links).

    Enjoy .

    Hope that helped.
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  • Profile picture of the author JayVance
    Also for firefox, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1668/ Shows only meta information for sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author MisterE
      Nour, Jay,

      I've tried both of these and they do have their pluses, what I'm really hoping to find is an app. that will parse the info from the first page of results.

      What I have been doing is C&P from the source code for each search result.
      Needless to say it's slow and cumbersome.

      Thank you much for the fast replies!
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  • Profile picture of the author JayVance
    You are welcome, sorry, don't know an app off the top of my head that will do that. I'm going to guess it will be hard to find one for free.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mohammad Afaq
    If you feel like doing some manual labor you can check the source of a page my pressing Ctrl + U once you are on the webpage. From there you should be able to find the tags (if you know some HTML).
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  • Profile picture of the author Fazal Mayar
    Try Seo Quake , it's a mozilla firefox add on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ken
    MisterE, Have you tried Quirk Search Status.

    SearchStatus | Firefox SEO Toolbar Extension
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    • Profile picture of the author MisterE
      My thanks again to all who have responded to my question.

      I still haven't found anything that does what I'm hoping to find.

      A little background as to why I'm still thinking that such a tool exists.
      I'm a War Room member and I was lucky enough to download a program by another War Room member that is able to parse a search results page for each website and pull out all the text from each page, It's a really slick piece of software that I use almost daily now. I was just hoping to find a similar app. that would just parse and return some of the meta details, Title, Description and Keywords (I'm experimenting)

      I do, and have used SEO Quake for some time now unfortunately it only shows the Meta for a single page at a time.

      And Search Status is one of the first extensions I ever installed, I use it more than any other add-on.

      Anyway I'll keep looking and if I do find something I'll update my thread.

      I may just have it coded myself.
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  • Profile picture of the author Martin Avis
    Your software suggestion sounded useful so I coded it up for members of my membership site. You can access the script here: KickstartPLR: Meta Hacker without needing to join my site.

    It is a quick and dirty solution, so if you have any suggestions for improvements (or find any bugs) please let me know.

    Martin
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    • Profile picture of the author peter.max
      Originally Posted by Martin.Avis View Post

      Your software suggestion sounded useful so I coded it up for members of my membership site. You can access the script here: KickstartPLR: Meta Hacker without needing to join my site.

      It is a quick and dirty solution, so if you have any suggestions for improvements (or find any bugs) please let me know.

      Martin
      Great little app. You should share it in the War Room as well. I see you are a member

      Thanks for sharing

      Peter
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    • Profile picture of the author dv8domainsDotCom
      Originally Posted by Martin.Avis View Post

      Your software suggestion sounded useful so I coded it up for members of my membership site. You can access the script here: KickstartPLR: Meta Hacker without needing to join my site.

      It is a quick and dirty solution, so if you have any suggestions for improvements (or find any bugs) please let me know.

      Martin
      Simply... Oh, my gawd! I find this incredibly useful! Thank you for coding/sharing.

      Suggestions:
      Bold results: maybe helpful if you could parse output and bold (or otherwise highlight) the phrase searched in the results to make easier to locate in the output.
      Density/Percentage? : results can be extracted and this done separately of course, but on-page parsing would be totally awesome Per word and/or phrase cumulative.

      Just some ideas I had.

      Bugs:
      Didn't find a reason for it, but seems to think that the DOCTYPE header is a title?? (URL BankRate.com as example? on my screen title shows as the DOCTYPE header info (prior to HTML declaration). Not a game-breaker by any means, and I still think this web app is slick

      Thanks again!
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      • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
        Outwit might be useful in doing this.
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      • Profile picture of the author Martin Avis
        Originally Posted by dv8domainsDotCom View Post

        Simply... Oh, my gawd! I find this incredibly useful! Thank you for coding/sharing.

        Suggestions:
        Bold results: maybe helpful if you could parse output and bold (or otherwise highlight) the phrase searched in the results to make easier to locate in the output.
        Density/Percentage? : results can be extracted and this done separately of course, but on-page parsing would be totally awesome Per word and/or phrase cumulative.

        Just some ideas I had.

        Bugs:
        Didn't find a reason for it, but seems to think that the DOCTYPE header is a title?? (URL BankRate.com as example? on my screen title shows as the DOCTYPE header info (prior to HTML declaration). Not a game-breaker by any means, and I still think this web app is slick

        Thanks again!
        That's odd. Can you let me have the keyword you used to get the strange results?

        Martin

        Edit: I found the problem and fixed it.
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        • Profile picture of the author MisterE
          Martin!...... ONE WORD!!!.... Well, maybe three.
          PERFECT! PERFECT! PERFECT!

          Thank You so very much!

          Highest regards,
          Mark

          I will definitely check out the chrome extensions as well.
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          • Profile picture of the author mcmahanusa
            Martin,

            Kudos to you for your creativity, expertise, and generosity. You just solved a problem I didn't even realize I had.

            Thank you.

            Ben

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  • Profile picture of the author ScottR
    I prefer SEO for Firefox (from Aaron Wall). A really great little tool. Though I use SEQuake too.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Originally Posted by MisterE View Post

    I'm trying to find an application, preferably free, that will show me the meta info for Title, Description and Keywords of the top ten results from the first page of Google, Yahoo or Bing.

    I've found several antiquated SEO programs that are either no longer supported, or they simply no longer work, but so far have failed to find anything that suits my needs that works properly.

    A Firefox extension would be ideal for my needs, unfortunately the only one I've found was from 2004 (no longer in development) and in Japanese.

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    Mark
    Do ANY big search engines use that meta info defined in the site anymore? Google doesn't.

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Gosse
    THis one grabs the keywords only

    Free Keyword Research Tool OS X, Windows, Linux
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