The Google Toolbar
Introduction: The Google toolbar can be downloaded from the Google website.
It sits at the top of your screen. The toolbar has lots of little icons to access different services and websites from Google. It also allows Google to do some valuable research by checking on all the people who use it. By this means they can get a good idea from the tool bar of what consumers are using and most popular searches. In turn this will enable them to improve their search engine.
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Set up:
This is simple you can download this little tool bar for free at http://toolbar.google.com/index_xp.html and this will take you straight to the download page. The tool bar will upgrade itself so you will always be using the most up to date version.
Here are the main functions of the Google tool bar:
• Accessing Google’s advertising tools: This takes you to Google’s home page with just a click of your mouse. You can access Google’s advertising tools from here. The main ones are Google Adwords and Google Adsense. These come in very handy when you want to check on your Google Adwords campaigns.
• Google search You can also access the Google search machine directly from here by either typing in a URL, key phrase or keyword. This is a real time saver as it allows you to search without going to Google’s website. Of course it brings more customers for Google as well.
• Page Rank: the small gauge in the middle of the toolbar allows you to check on your page rank. You can also check on competition.
• Pop-up Blocker: now here’s a neat little tool that blocks those annoying pop ups. You can also turn it off if you need pop ups from a particular web site. Added to this it will even tell you how many Pop-ups it has blocked.
• Blog this: This gives you direct access to Google’s special blog site http://blogger.com (blogspot) so there is no excuse not to blog your way to more traffic and Google will gain more customers this way.
• Autofill: automatically populates those tiresome long-winded forms for you. This really saves you time.
• Caches your searches so that you can return to a useful search.
• Translating icon: now here’s a neat little tool. This will allow you to translate foreign websites, a great help for those of us who research the web.
• Auto Link: Lost and need to know your way around? With a click of your mouse you can create a link form a web page to a map for any location in the US.
• Spell check: This will help you correct any spelling errors in discussion groups, web-based mail and web–based forms
• Highlighting Search Terms: this helps you find your relevant information easily when searching, by highlighting your search terms on a page.
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So how does this tool bar help me improve my Page Rank?
Checking and monitoring Page Rank: You can check your Page Rank and also those of your competitors. You can also check the ranks of your proposed link partners.
Backwards link: you can check what sites are linking into a certain site. You can also check your own links.
Word Find Button: This helps you find certain keywords on a page. This is a big help for optimizing your pages.
This is a very useful little tool for you and Google. You get to save time and Google gets more customers. This is a win win partnership and is yet another way you can get free help from Google.
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