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<\/p>\nSearch engine optimisation (SEO) is much easier to tackle with the right browser extensions. The great news is that there are many SEO add-ons available for a variety of browsers to help gauge SEO effectiveness.<\/p>\n
There are add-ons for most every SEO tasks from measuring rankings, analysing traffic and website performance to identifying competitors and keywords, and more. Read on to find out which browser add-ons to use for the most common SEO tasks and what insights each can provide to help you with your search engine optimisation efforts.<\/p>\n
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This is a popular tool that provides a wealth of marketing data directly in the search results. After you\u2019ve installed it, you\u2019ll get an overview of the authority of a website including: Page Rank, number of domain and page links, whether they\u2019re listed in recognised directories like Dmoz, the age of the site and estimated traffic stats.<\/p>\n
Excellent for:<\/strong> Competitor research to help you understand how authoritative a site is as well as spotting opportunities for your own websites.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> Yes<\/p>\n Price: <\/strong>Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.seobook.com\/seo-toolbar<\/p>\n This add-on gives you access to a variety of useful tools. For example, it will show you an overview of Page Rank, Alexa and Compete Rank, highlight on page NoFollow links, view Meta tags, other domains on the same IP, Whois data and more.<\/p>\n Excellent for: <\/strong>Quickly checking important site elements and finding out what your site could be missing.<\/p>\n Account required: <\/strong>No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox and SeaMonkey<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.quirk.biz\/searchstatus\/<\/a><\/p>\n Other good tools for search marketing that you might want to try are:<\/p>\n This extension allows you to check your website rankings in Google (US and international), Bing and Yahoo Search.<\/p>\n Excellent for: <\/strong>Finding out where your website ranks in the search results.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> Yes<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox<\/p>\n Link: <\/strong>https:\/\/tools.seobook.com\/firefox\/rank-checker\/<\/p>\n This add-on allows you to see how Google search results look in specific countries as if you were in that location. So, if you want to see how Google organic search results appear in any location around the world, this extension is spot on. If you\u2019re running an AdWords campaign and are targeting potential customers in different countries, you will also be able to see how your ads look in those other locations.<\/p>\n Excellent for:<\/strong> Seeing how your site rankings and ads appear in different locations around the world.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox and Chrome<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.redflymarketing.com\/internet-marketing-tools\/google-global\/<\/a><\/p>\n Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page, or even just admire the beautiful code on other websites. For many this add-on has become an indispensable part of website design, development and maintenance.<\/p>\n Excellent for: <\/strong>Debugging websites.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Price: <\/strong>Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/firebug\/<\/a><\/p>\n With this browser add-on you get loads of tools right in your browser that are useful for development work as well as for getting an idea of the structure of a website. Among the most useful tools are HMTL and CSS validation tests, accessibility tests, script and image blocking features, quick links for viewing the source code as well as layout information displays such as code structure and block sizes.<\/p>\n Excellent for:<\/strong> Testing and quality-checking your web pages.<\/p>\n Account required: <\/strong>No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox, Chrome, Opera<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/chrispederick.com\/work\/web-developer\/<\/a><\/p>\n Here are some other add-ons you might want to try:<\/p>\n This tool is an effective debugger for HTTP header data. It helps debug web applications, see which kind of web server the remote site is using and also the cookies sent by the remote site.<\/p>\n Excellent for:<\/strong> Viewing the HTTP headers of a page while browsing.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox, Seamonkey<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/live-http-headers\/?src=search<\/a><\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking to get more link data than Google Webmaster Tools can provide, you might want to install this browser add-on. You will have access to extra information including the anchor text used on the link and whether the link is nofollow.<\/p>\n Excellent for:<\/strong> Doing a quick link analysis of a website.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/yoast.com\/tools\/seo\/link-analysis\/<\/a><\/p>\n Two other good add-ons that you can use for analysing backlinks are Majestic Backlink Analyzer<\/a> and Check My Links<\/a>. They are both free and compatible with Chrome.<\/p>\n A great tool for SEO that allows you to create custom searches by search engine, country or city, see how difficult it is to rank for a specific keywords, view social metrics for Twitter, Facebook and more.<\/p>\n Excellent for:<\/strong> Accessing important SEO metrics at a glance as you surf the web.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox and Chrome<\/p>\n Link: <\/strong>https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/mozbar\/eakacpaijcpapndcfffdgphdiccmpknp<\/a><\/p>\n SEOquake is quite nice as it gives you access to tons of SEO parameters including Google index, Alexa Rank, nofollow links, and keyword densities. It allows you to do a full page analysis and also to download SERP results into Excel.<\/p>\n Excellent for:<\/strong> Getting valuable SEO information about any webpage and stats about websites directly in the search result pages<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox, Chrome and Opera<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/seoquake\/akdgnmcogleenhbclghghlkkdndkjdjc<\/a><\/p>\n Another good choice is SEO Book\u2019s SEO Toolbar, a popular add-on that is free and compatible with Firefox.<\/p>\n A simple tool that shows you nofollow links as well as nofollow and nonindex meta tags on web pages. It supports search engine specific meta tags: googlebot (Google), bingbot (Bing), slurp (Yahoo) and msnbot (Bing). Best of all, it also works offline.<\/p>\n Excellent for:<\/strong> Finding links with rel=”nofollow” attribute and links on pages with nofollow or noindex robots meta tag.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility: <\/strong>Chrome<\/p>\n Link: <\/strong>https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/nofollow\/dfogidghaigoomjdeacndafapdijmiid?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n Great Firefox add-on that allows you to select a block of text and get details on the number of sentences, paragraphs, words as well as keyword density.<\/p>\n Excellent for:<\/strong> Getting an overview of a web page\u2019s content.<\/p>\n Account required: <\/strong>No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/word-count-tool\/?src=search<\/a><\/p>\n This is an interesting tool that allows you to quickly check the position of multiple sites for a particular keyword. It basically shows you the rankings for a specific query.<\/p>\n Excellent for: <\/strong>Keeping track of the progress of optimising your site without having to check everything through Google searches.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility: <\/strong>Chrome<\/p>\n Link: <\/strong>https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/seo-serp-workbench\/ehbgolklgacemnfnmkkpgekngaaggjjl<\/a><\/p>\n Great for keeping an eye on what technologies your competitors are using, from content management systems and ecommerce platforms to analytics tools and more.<\/p>\n Excellent for: <\/strong>Detecting the technologies that your competitors are using on their sites.<\/p>\n Account required: <\/strong>No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Chrome<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/wappalyzer\/gppongmhjkpfnbhagpmjfkannfbllamg?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n Yahoo!\u2019s page performance tool will analyse the page you are on for speed and give it a grade. It will give you many suggestions as to where you can improve the speed of the page looking at content, cookies, CSS, images, Javascript and the server.<\/p>\n Excellent for: <\/strong>Finding new ways to improve your site\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility: <\/strong>Chrome<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/yslow\/ninejjcohidippngpapiilnmkgllmakh<\/a><\/p>\n This add-on allows you to see your earnings at a glance without having to log in to your Adsense account multiple times a day. It updates stats automatically and you will be able to see things like clicks and earnings directly in your browser\u2019s status bar.<\/p>\n Excellent for: <\/strong>Anyone who needs to check their stats often to see if they have gotten any more clicks.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/code.mincus.com\/3\/adsense-notifier\/<\/a><\/p>\n A good tool if you\u2019re undecided about using Adsense on your site as it gives you the chance to test things out visually. You will be able to see what ads may appear on your web pages if you do decide to add Adsense to your website.<\/p>\n Excellent for:<\/strong> Seeing what Google ads may show on any web page and making an informed decision.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox, Internet Explorer<\/p>\n Link: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.yellowpipe.com\/yis\/tools\/adsense-preview\/<\/a><\/p>\n This awesome add-on allows you to generate secure passwords and it will then save all your usernames and passwords so that you can autologin to your favourite sites with just one click. It will save everything from usernames and passwords to credit card and shopping profiles.<\/p>\n Excellent for: Generating strong passwords, saving and organising your login information for all your sites so you can access them securely from any device.<\/p>\n Account required:<\/strong> No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility:<\/strong> Firefox<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/lastpass-password-manager\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n An alternative to LastPass is 1Password, which works in a similar way but it\u2019s also compatible with Chrome, Safari and Opera.<\/p>\n A reliable browser extension that helps you do your keyword research and competitive tracking for SEO and PPC as you browse the web. You can use it to get keyword ideas both from the search results pages as well as from the site pages that you visit.<\/p>\n Excellent for:<\/strong> Researching keywords and finding new keyword opportunities.<\/p>\n Account required: <\/strong>No<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n Compatibility: <\/strong>Firefox and Internet Explorer<\/p>\n Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/labs.keywordspy.com\/plugin\/?n=<\/a><\/p>\n Two good alternatives to KeywordSpy are:<\/p>\n Scout<\/a> – Free, available for Chrome This cool add-on helps you to block all those annoying ads, banners that pop up when you browse the web. All you need to do is to install it and add some filters so that next time a webpage loads, Adblock will disable the elements matching your filters.<\/p>\nQuirk \u2013 Search Status<\/h4>\n
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\nCheck rankings<\/h3>\n
SEO Book \u2013 Rank Checker<\/h4>\n
RedFly – Google global Firefox and Chrome extension<\/h4>\n
\nWebsite development<\/h3>\n
Firebug<\/h4>\n
Web developer<\/h3>\n
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\nHTTP Headers<\/h3>\n
Live HTTP Headers<\/h4>\n
\nBacklink analysis<\/h3>\n
SEO Link Analysis<\/h4>\n
\nSEO Toolbars<\/h3>\n
MozBar<\/h4>\n
SEOquake<\/h4>\n
\nOn-page analysis<\/h3>\n
NoFollow<\/h4>\n
Word Count Tool<\/h4>\n
\nCompetitor analysis<\/h3>\n
SEO SERP Workbench<\/h4>\n
Wappalyzer<\/h4>\n
\nWebsite performance<\/h3>\n
YSlow<\/h4>\n
\nAdSense<\/h3>\n
mincus.code – Adsense Notifier<\/h4>\n
Yellowpipe – Google Adsense Preview Tool<\/h4>\n
\nPassword manager<\/h3>\n
LastPass Password Manager<\/h4>\n
\nKeyword analysis<\/h3>\n
KeywordSpy<\/h4>\n
\nWordpot<\/a> – The Keyword Finder \u2013 Free, available for Firefox<\/p>\n
\nBlock ads<\/h3>\n
Adblock<\/h4>\n