For those of you not in the know, SearchStatus is a specialised SEO plugin created with the needs of professional search marketers in mind. Using its vast array of features you can check everything from website source code to the link and traffic importance of a page, allowing you to analyse how any and every website in the world is performing.

So, without further ado, let’s get down to business – the full SearchStatus 1.31 changelog is as follows:

1. Show other domains on this IP: right-click ‘q’ on your SearchStatus toolbar, scroll down to ‘show other domains on ip’ and a new window will open with a list of all the domains linked to the current IP.

This feature comes in handy when checking if multiple domains are hosted on the same server. The host can suffer search engine penalties if interlinking sites are found to originate from the same IP address – particularly if this linking strategy is commercially motivated – so when doing SEO it’s important to take this into account.

2. Check rankings for HTTPS URLs:  to do this, go to options, privacy settings, and remove HTTPS from the excluded URLs field.

This feature is useful in instances that the user wants to check the ranking on a secure https URL:  for example, on a banking site or eCommerce payments portal.

3. Refresh a site’s ranking by left-clicking on the ranking bar: This is useful if you suspect the site ranking may be stale.

4. Show Alexa search keywords: right-click on the Alexa ranking bar and select show keywords. This will take you to an Alexa page with a list of the top keywords driving traffic to the current domain.

5. Option to hide the canonical button in the URL bar: go to options and untick the ‘show canonical link bar in URL’ button.

The canonical link button clashes with some browser themes, so the option to turn it off is useful if you run into issues.

Fixed:

• Slow startup times fixed on some installs
• Relative canonical URLs.
• Bug on closing Options dialog in some cases

To update your version go to Tools -> Add-ons -> Find Updates, or go to http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus to install the latest version.

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Happy SEO’ing!