I use lots of SEO Tools and my favorite ones are the ones in Firefox. What I cant stand are the SEO tools that come loaded with ads and unrelated crap the builder is stuffing it with. For this reason I have a small program called livePR that gives me the pagerank of web sites. It stopped working a few days ago and after some digging I found out google had changed the location of its toolbar.

You now have to query it via:

The old query URL is:

http://toolbarqueries.google.com/search?client=navclient-auto&features=Rank&ch=8f3b58e04&q=info:[URLHERE]

The new query URL is:

http://toolbarqueries.google.com/tbr?client=navclient-auto&features=Rank&ch=8f3b58e04&q=info:[URLHERE]

Small change but it breaks my simple program. I had to find the plugin here: C:\Users\Joel\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\n87di648.default\extensions\{8061ddcf-3632-4287-8d8a-133e219ae838}\chrome\livepr

Yours will be different, the key is it is under users> your user name> AppData>Roaming>Mozilla>Firefox>Profiles…. Then you will need to look under all the folders with the extensions in them with the numbers. You will find under the chrome\livepr. It may be faster just to search for livepr. Then you will see a .jar file which is compressed. You will have to uncompress it and located this file:

liveOverlay.js ( open and save a back up as liveoverlayold.js)

Around line 241 there is a querry change it to:

var querystring = “http://”+datacenter+”/tbr?client=navclient-auto&ch=”+gch+”&features=”+feat+”&q=”+reqgre+”&num=100&filter=0″;

Then save the file and recopy it back into the .jar compressed folder. You may have shut down firefox to do this since it appears to lock up the file.

Swoosty SEO Tools 2.0 Pagerank fix

Swoosty is another tool I run in firefox. I found it in the same main firefox folder folder as an xpi file called 23ad39a3-36e7-4d8e-92d2-ba116ee32c45. XPI files are zip files and can be opened with winrar. Once I opened it and decompressed it into its own folder I found this file in the content folder: swoostyseotools.js.

Around line 362 I found the query and changed it to:

querystring += “toolbarqueries.google.com/tbr?client=navclient-auto&ch=” +
this.mGoogleCH + “&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&features=Rank” +
( this.mGoogleRankOnly ? “” : “:FVN” ) + “&q=” + reqgre;

 

Once again you will have to save this file and then close firefox and add it back into the xpi via winrar. Works like a champ.

 

 

Good Luck!

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