Yolink is a nice new tool that searches through the content linked from the current page (available to both FireFox and Google Chrome users). Basically, it works as follows:
(1) You find a page which links to some other pages (let’s call them “linked pages“)
(2) You open the tool in the sidebar and provide the search term;
(3) The tool will look for the provided term on the linked pages and show you the summarized content.
I found the tool especially useful for various SERPs research.
Let me show one example: let’s say my main keyword is [diabetic diets] and I want to research which (and how many) pages found for its core term [diets] mention [diabetes] or [diabetic]. My steps would be:
1. (With Yolink installed) I search Google for [diets];
2. I click the Yolink icon in the address bar to toggle the tool sidebar; In the sidebar I provide my second keyword [diabetic] and choose one of the options (exact match, “best” match, match one of the search terms, match all the search terms):
3. Now I can watch the tool generate snippets from the linked pages and highlight my search term:
- The listing number represents the link on the base page (which is Google SERPs in our case);
- If there are several extracts containing the search term within one listing, they will be marked with letters;
- When you hover over any listing in Yolink results, you will be able to see its number on the base page:
4. Now just scroll through results to see which pages contain your term and how they use it:
Isn’t it useful?
More things you can do with Yolink:
- Scan the current page links or text;
- Send results directly to Blogger, WordPress, Facebook or Twitter.
Do you see yourself using this tool? Please share your thoughts!
The tool was reviewed under SEJ policy.
That’s a nice post about a nice tool. Just gave it a quick go but looks pretty decent so far. Just installed it on ff and will test it during the next days a little more. But as you already mentioned it feels quite useful so far.
If you notice any bugs or want to share more useful features, please share. I’d like our readers to know everything :)
Thanks Ann; have downloaded and will give it a try…
yolink results can be sent,with the click of an icon,to Evernote and Google Docs.
Great post, thanks for the info. Just wanted to add, yolink works on Internet Explorer too.
Great tool. I’ve been using it for a few weeks now… Really does cut down search time. Love the integration with various social networking sites as well, plus Google Docs.
Many thanks for the heads up on this new SEO tool …. will try it out. Sounds like a very interesting implementation for this sort of research.
we download the toll and test it.
it works great in Firefox
we can say its a nice tool.
HI Ann,
You are superb but i must tell you one thing, it’s becoz of you my browser gets crash. You come up with so nice tools that i could not come out of the charm of using it.
Anyway I like ur post.