I know I haven’t done many SEO posts lately, but one of my co-workers is leaving (who specializes in SEO) and I thought I’d pay him a little tribute. I spent a few minutes throwing up another tool into my vulnerability lab that detects the SEO Firefox plugin - Search Status. In particular it helps detect if they are attempting to find rel=nofollow put on links. That’s important for SEO folks because they know which pages will give them higher page rank if they put a link on the page.

Search Status has a function to enable highlighting of nofollow tags, which is highly useful for improving page rank (knowing where and where not to post if you are interested in backlinks on web-boards for instance). This will help ferret out those pesky SEO experts and either deliver them different content or change the links to remove the rel=nofollow modifications so they aren’t visible. A cute trick based off of Jeremiah’s CSS hack (which I also put back up online in the lab).

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