Installed Alexa Tool Bar - Sparky and Search Status Extension yet?
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Overview
Find out a little bit more about the Alexa Tool Bar - Sparky as well as Search Status Extension, if one has yet to know about these two (2) particular useful Firefox Add-on for fellow Blog Masters and Web Masters alike. Blog visitors or readers who wish to support their favorite sites are also recommended to install the Alexa Tool Bar - Sparky.
Alexa Tool Bar - Sparky
Alexa only records site visits and page views if the browser has Alexa Tool Bar installed, for fellow Blog Masters and Web Masters seeking to achieve a higher Alexa Traffic Ranking, why not let those visits and page views count?
Besides that, it is also very handy in knowing any particular site’s Alexa Traffic Ranking.
Download it here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5362
Search Status Extension
Appears to have more functions than the Alexa Tool Bar - Sparky, this one also shows the Page Rank of the site. One of the features is - able to highlight the no follow links, so one is able to know whether those dofollow sites are really indeed dofollow.
Download it here:
http://www.quirk.biz/download-searchstatus
Browser’s viewing space totally unaffected
Please note that the Alexa Tool Bar - Sparky and Search Status Extension are totally not tool bars that “jams up the browser” unlike most tool bars.
Legend - Red: Search Status Extension | Green: Alexa Tool Bar - Sparky
Does not consume much extra memory
From the following screenies, it appears that the memory consumption appears to be the same after the installation of Alexa Tool Bar - Sparky and Search Status Extension.
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Source
http://www.dotsauce.com/2007/12/30/5-essential-firefox-addons/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5362
http://www.quirk.biz/download-searchstatus
Deimos’s Thoughts
First, I would like to express my thanks to goldfries as it was him who introduced me to Search Status Extension via a reply in this particular article about Alexa Traffic Ranking.
Second, kudos to Saphrym for mentioning DotSauce’s linkie which allowed me to chance upon such an interesting screenie of Firefox.
Deimos Asks
So, fellow bloggers (who is eager to rise up the Alexa Traffic Ranking), have you heard of Alexa Tool Bar and Search Status Extension?
Installed it already? 
Site visitors and or readers (if any), would you be bothered to install this? 
Deimos’s Additional Reads
Deimos basically grew up with computers and software as he started using computers at the age of nine. However, he is a stringy mofo and only use those anti virus software which are freely obtainable off the internet. He does not use any web server software as he is a gamer, not a programmer. Some software tools such as GIMP did come in handy to manipulate images though. Filezilla would be a useful software to upload files and this is what he uses to upload files to his file server, while a local web hosting firm was engaged to host his files for his blog. Sometimes he blogs in Star Bucks via the wireless internet services provided there.
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Moolahking (2 comments)
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Hey..!! I want to be that cat..!!!
Nice Tools..But does it applicable using Mozilla?
Deimos Tel`Arin (817 comments)
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@Moolahking:
Did ya notice the Firefox logo resembles the cat curled up in there?
Do you mean the Mozilla browser?
For Search Status Extension or Sparky?
moolahking (2 comments)
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Oppsss.. Soory..
I mean does only applicable using Mozilla? How about IE?
Deimos Tel`Arin (817 comments)
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@Moolahking:
Oh! I think it is only applicable to Firefox or Mozilla.
Does not work with Internet Explorer I guess.
soundtrackgeek (6 comments)
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Woo, all these toolbars! I have 4 installed now, including Sparky. I think I need a larger monitor
Deimos Tel`Arin (817 comments)
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@soundtrackgeek:
I only have Sparky and Search Status Extension.
FLoReNcE (16 comments)
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Oh..i think the cat is the lucky one!!! I want to be that cat too.
Deimos Tel`Arin (817 comments)
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@FLoReNcE:
I think the cat is suffocating!
Wayne Liew (6 comments)
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I knew about all these but I only have the StumbleUpon toolbar installed. I don’t like tonnes of toolbars jamming my browser since the page I am viewing will be squeezed!
Trust me, get one article stumbled (mail me one great article of yours that you think is worth stumbling and hopefully, I can show you the traffic effect) and your Alexa ranking will go up wildly.
yung . (21 comments)
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Will installing this toolbar slowdowns your pc, cos my pc ram is really limited..
Deimos Tel`Arin (817 comments)
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Article updated.
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@Wayne Liew:
Installing Sparky and Search Status Extension does not jams up the browser.
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@yung .:
Looking at the memory used before and after installation, I say it would not slowdown the PC.
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Zath (4 comments)
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I’ve been using Search Status for quite a while now and think that’s definitely worth having for the features you mentioned about, plus it also works out some neat little SEO stuff like % keyword usage on the page.
Deimos Tel`Arin (817 comments)
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@Zath:
Hello there!
W00t! I did not realize such feature exist!
Guess I only use it to check the site’s Page Rank.
Did you have the Alexa Tool Bar - Sparky installed?
Zath (4 comments)
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I always thought that if you had Search Status you didn’t need another Alexa toolbar or extension since Search Status sends that info of sites you visit to Alexa anyway?
From reading the FAQs for Search Status, I think it does do the job of a separate Alexa toolbar/extension too.
Deimos Tel`Arin (817 comments)
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@Zath:
Yeah it does.
Guess I like seeing the rank numbers straight away without needing to hover my house over there.
Zath (4 comments)
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Try right clicking on the Alexa part of Search Status and selecting “Show as Text” and you’ll have the rank in numbers shown, is that what you mean?
Deimos Tel`Arin (817 comments)
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Duh!
Hell yeah!
I guess I can uninstall Sparky now.
Then again, maybe I’ll just leave it as that.
Jennie (4 comments)
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Hi Deimos! your blog page has lots of valuable information. I love it here! I rated you “10,” just so you know.
Best Regards!
p.s. I’m a newbie w/all these things with regards to blogging. But the information you have here all sounds interesting that I hope to be able to get around to doing. Do start off, I just downloaded the sparky. I hope it works out for our two month old blog. Appreciate you site.
Deimos Tel`Arin (817 comments)
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@Jennie:
Thanks for the support and feedback yo!
Djyano (3 comments)
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I’ve been using Search Status and Alexa Tool Bar - Sparky for quite long time already, but since I’ve update firefox 2 to firefox 3.
All my bookmarks and extensions were deleted. Haha, luckily i put your link in my blog and what a coincidence, this article provide Search Status and Alexa Tool Bar - Sparky link and i am able download them back.
Guess this will save my time
Good article, haha, maybe i will write a post on how to transfer your firefox 2 data to firefox 3