These buttons only work for the Google Toolbar. If you use Firefox, you may want to try my Firefox SEO Bookmarklets. You might also like our Firefox SEO Extensions, including the SEO Toolbar. Easy peasy 1 2 3sy to install. After you have Google Toolbar 4 just click any of the following links and the button is added to your toolbar in a flash. TouchGraph For some reason Touchgraph kills the IE Beta on my computer (but this worked fine on older versions of IE) - provides a visual representation of linkage neighborhood using the Google TouchGraph. Link Harvester - provides an XLS sheet of links pointing at domain using Link Harvester. WeBuildPages - links to all Jim Boykin's cool tools. Myriad Search - shows the top ranking sites in the major search engines using Myriad Search. Google Trends - Historical trends for search queries. SEO Book Keyword Research Tool - shows keyword suggestions using the SEO Book keyword research tool. Google Keyword Research Tool - Shows Google's prices and volumes for keywords. Digital Point Keyword Suggestion Tool - keyword suggestion tool compares Yahoo! Wordtracker side by side. Digital Point Keyword Ranking Tool - tracks your rankings in Google, Yahoo! Technorati: Links to Page - shows blog links pointing at a page using Technorati. Technorati: Links to Domain - shows blog links pointing at a site using Technorati. Ask Blog - The official blog about Ask. Google Blog - The official blog about Google. Google AdSense Blog - Blog about Google's contextual ad network. Google AdWords Blog - Blog about Google's advertising programs. Yahoo! Search Blog - Official blog about Yahoo! David Naylor - The spamblog. Gaping Void - Hugh Macleod's cartoon blog on ad agencies and the advertising world. Google Blogoscoped - Philipp Lessen's blog on Google, search and the web. Gray Hat News - Funny blog about search. JenSense - Jen Slegg's blog about contextual ads. Jeremy Zawodny - Jeremy is a well known blogger and Yahoo! Jim Boykin - Jim Boykin's blog about SEO. Link Building Blog - Blog by Patrick Gavin and Andy Hagans. Matt Cutts - Blog by a well known Google engineer. contextual backlink - Todd Friesen's blog about SEO. Performancing - Community blog about blogging (not really about SEO). SEO Book - Aaron Wall's blog. SEO Buzz Box - Aaron Pratt's blog about SEO and the web. SEO Bytes - SEO forum aggregator. SEO Moz - Rand Fishkin's blog. SER - Barry Schwartz's blog on search. SEW - Danny Sullivan's Search Engine Watch blog. Searchblog - John Battelle's blog. Search Engine Blog - Peter Da Vanzo's blog. Seth Godin - Seth Godin's blog on marketing. Shoemoney - Jeremy Shoemaker's blog about marketing, programming and the web. Stuntdubl - Todd Malicoat's blog. Threadwatch - the Threadwatch community blog. TopRank Blog - Lee Odden's blog on public relations, blogging and SEO. Traffick - Andrew Goodman's blog primarily focused on paid search. Valley Wag - Unofficial gossip rag for Silicon Valley. V7N - John Scott's marketing blog and forum. Web Guerrilla - Greg Boser's blog on search and internet marketing. Wolf Howl - Graywolf's blog on SEO, marketing and blogging. 1. All you need is a URL and and an Icon image. What that button does or what the site is about. 64 version of your icon - not needed but it looks nice to use. 4. if you do not have a feed then you do not need the feed part. 6. The search and send functions can work with your tools or internal site search. If your internal site search is not that good then just use Google site level search, as in the above example. 7. A favicon is the little icon you see in the browser address bar right before the address of the web page you are viewing. 8. How to get a favicon from another site (assuming you are making a button for them) - Most good sites have a file called favicon.ico in their root. If it does you can click on it and save it. 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