Firefox SEO Extensions 0
Firefox SEO extensions can help you dramatically if you do SEO on a regular basis. For years many of us have been manually doing research by hand for the details we can gather on competing sites in SERP’s. You go to yahoo to check backlinks, you check indexed pages in google, you check Alexa ranking, you check domain age. You might even snoop around to see if the site has a sitemap or robots.txt file. It’s a time consuming ordeal – isn’t it?
Believe it or not, there’s a free extension for firefox that can do all these thing and more! It’s called “SEO Quake”. Once you install it, it has 2 “modes”. One is “toolbar” mode, and it can display all the SEO attributes about a site in a toolbar at the top of Firefox. The other is a “SERP” mode, where it can append the google results and tell you all the SEO attributes of search results as you research your competitors like this:
See how it appends each search result with pagerank, backlinks, alexa ranking, etc? You just have to be careful when you setup this plugin to have it get results “on demand” (only when you tell it to), or you can get your IP banned from search engines for too many lookups.
If you don’t want something that heavy duty, I’ll give an honorable mention to the SEO Firefox extension Search Status. It puts a very simple tool in the status bar of firefox which shows the pagerank and alexa rankings of sites you browse. This is very handy as well.
What Firefox SEO extensions do you use?