by Jim Carlton

As a person who frequents online classifieds specializing in the sale of cars, I found it frustrating and a waste of time that many of the sites on the first page of Googles search results had infrequent ad postings. New ads did not show up for days in a row. I asked a more tech savvy friend of mine for help and he showed me how Alexa and Google Pagerank could help me out.

I scrapped my old browser and downloaded Firefoxs latest version. Firefox provides faster browsing speeds than most browsers, allows you to view different sites in multiple tabs or windows and saves the sites you have open whenever you close the browser. Every time you access Firefox again, the same sites are displayed and saves you a lot of time. Next I downloaded the Google Pagerank and Alexa toolbars.

Alexa is one of the premier website ranking authority on the web. The toolbar once installed shows up as a graph and number in the lower right corner of your Firefox browser and as a bar alongside each of the search results in Google. The number indicates the websites daily global traffic ranking with a lower number representing higher traffic. The bar is longer for higher-ranking sites and also displays the ranking number upon moving your cursor over the bar. The more visitors a site has the better the ranking.

The Pagerank toolbar displays a score between zero and ten for each website, calculated using a variety of aspects like the traffic, high ranking sites that link to it, how long the website has been around for and the frequency of new content updates. Unlike Alexa, which awards a unique daily rating, several websites can achieve the same Pagerank, with ten being the best score attainable.

Now all you have to do is use the Alexa bar in the search results to evaluate which site had higher daily traffic and therefore, more frequently posted ads and a larger variety of cars. Used collectively with Pagerank I came up with a great bunch of sites, many from the second and third search result pages, which ranked well with both services. I have access to a larger number of cars and comparing prices across these sites I get fantastic deals every single time.

The use of these tools is not restricted to the search for great deals on cars alone. It can be used practically for all the things you search for on the internet. Its simple and once you get past installing and getting acquainted with these utilities you wont want to search the web in any other way.

About the Author:
Jim Carlton writes on discovering the web and saving cash on deals found on the internet. To purchase a Suzuki, Honda, Toyota for Sale visit Good Deal Hunting free classifieds.

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