There are so many free Firefox plugins and extensions for SEO enthusiasts that it almost becomes overwhelming and difficult to choose the “right” tools to use in your SEO efforts. Add to it the personal preferences which makes this job even more confusing. So, my idea is to help you in choosing those “right” Firefox extensions for SEO.
Top 10 SEO add-ons for Firefox
1. SEOpen
SEOpen add-on lets you place a toolbar in Firefox to quickly analyze everything from Google backlinks to PageRank check and more. All features are available by right-clicking on an open area of a web page, or by using the included toolbar.
2. Firebug
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
3. User Agent Switcher
User Agent Switcher Firefox extension allows you to visit Web sites as Googlebot. This is a great way to check for search engine cloaking. It adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of the browser. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
4. Web Developer Toolbar
Web Developer Toolbaradds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is one of the most useful add-ons for your SEO and web development. It allows you to easily manage cache, cookies, referrers, JavaScript, CSS, and much more.
5. SearchStatus
Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete ranking and SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.
6. SEOQuake
SEOQuake is one of the most advanced Firefox add-ons for SEO. It displays the parameters for search results and even includes the findings into the search engine result pages. You can then set these parameters to display by ascending or descending order; so you can search for any keyword in Google or Yahoo! and then set the order to show the highest PR’s or any other parameters.
7. Live HTTP headers
With Live HTTP headers extension, you can view all http requests issued by the Web page loaded in the browser. Just use Alt-l to open and close the extension in the sidebar.
8. SEO for FireFox
SEO for Firefox provides an exhaustive SEO report on each page integrated within your search results page: Google PR, Google cache date, age, Del.icio.us mentions, Y! links, Y! .edu links, Y! .gov links, Y! page links, Compete.com Rank, Compete.com uniques, number of cached pages, Dmoz/Yahoo directory/Botw presence, Whois etc
9. RankQuest SEO Toolbar
RankQuest SEO Toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Alexa Rank and Page Rank provided by Alexa and Google respectively ensures the popularity of the site.
10. Google Toolbar
Enhance Google search, receive warnings about web pages that may be unsafe, subscribe to feeds with one click, see your search history and Google suggestions and access your mail with one click.
Other Useful Firefox Extensions for SEO
11. Link Diagnosis
LinkDiagnosis is one of the best backlink checkers on the web, especially due to its design and it gets even better with the Firefox extension.
12. Social Media for Firefox
Social Media for Firefox is the the ultimate time saver to building powerful social media accounts. You can quickly check how popular a web page is in the most popular social media. Shows the number of Diggs, Reddit Votes, Stumble Thumbs and or Reviews, and Del.icio.us tags, Tweets, Sphinns, Mixx, and Tip’d votes so you can quickly see how popular certain content is. Also scans said social sites to show you what content hasn’t been submitted to other social news sites so you can be the first to add it.
So, what you think about the list? Do you use any of these? Have I missed out any other important add-on?
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May 1st, 2009 at 3:01 am
@raju very good lising of all plugins i have some of these installed but now i am installing all thanx for the giving direct install option.
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Raju Reply:
May 1st, 2009 at 9:13 am
@Nilesh,
am glad you liked it
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May 1st, 2009 at 7:00 am
Great list of top 10 much have firefox extensions for SEO. I am already using some of these. I would also suggest NoDoFollow https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5687. Nice If you want to check which websites/blogs are dofollow or no.
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Raju Reply:
May 1st, 2009 at 9:11 am
@Salwa,
Ya thanks, its a nice plugin.
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May 1st, 2009 at 10:18 pm
I was not aware about this plug in,”SEOpen”, i will definitely give it a try.
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May 1st, 2009 at 11:13 pm
If I use all these add-ons then my browser will take ages to load on my machine.
Nice list.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 1:50 am
Well, you have listed firebug as top 2nd must have plugin for SEO. I really don’t understand what firebug has to do with SEO. Its for editing the pages, and similar work….
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May 2nd, 2009 at 6:27 am
@Pavan,
Is it really you who is asking this question? Website loading time is one of the most important factors to improve SERP. Read this – http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-firebug-firefox-addon/8898/
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May 2nd, 2009 at 6:14 am
Great List for better SEO… thanks for it Raju
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May 2nd, 2009 at 8:24 am
@Raju
Nice and very informative article buddy.It will really help people like me to maintain the website properly.Hey,why dont you help me to decide a theme for my website
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May 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
@Ricky,
I would love to, but it is one of the toughest things to do… personal likings+requirements+options=headache
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May 2nd, 2009 at 11:25 am
@Raju
Yeah you are right.I am struggling to find out the theme of my choice.It is really difficult and time consuming task.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 4:56 pm
I am using many plugins that you have listed here. Thanks for the last one “Social Media for Firefox”
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May 2nd, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Well i a big fan of Google Chrome because of its awesome speed,and three in one address bar, but i heard too much about Firefox and its feature from my other friends. Currently i also use Flock browser as it is the most most sexy browser i have seen but as i am using vista so speed is another issue for that browser.Flock works on Mozilla platform so i enjoy all the feature of Firefox. Your list is awesome as you listed some very nice SEO plugins,I think you forget to add Zemanta plugin which is very friendly for writing blog posts and emails.
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Raju Reply:
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:08 pm
@Himanshu,
Zemanta has nothing to do with SEO if I am right
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May 2nd, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Nice list of SEO add-ons I don’t even know single of them
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May 2nd, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Oh , obviously ,Zemanta has nothing to do with SEO, i am very sorry to discuss it here, actually that is blogger friendly plugin and it helps for link building and image suggestion.
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May 3rd, 2009 at 10:02 am
Thanks for the Super duper Stuff ..before this i used only 2-3 pluggins…….
And Yahh!! Congrats…. TechPP featured in Chip Magzines this month issue……Its amazing my fav tech source is getting bigger and bigger………
Cheers !!!!
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May 3rd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Great list. I use Firebug and Web Developer Toolbar for Web development and they are fantastic. I’d recommend ColorZilla and MeasureIt as well.
Cheers.
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May 4th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
I have some of them already…like firebug, link diagnosis etc. I also like the nodofollow plugin.
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May 4th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Great post… dude.
I use only 2-3 plugins from the listed above. WIll check the rest of them…
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May 5th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Hey, I personally use Search Status which was mentioned in your list. I also use FoxyProxy and a few other non-seo related plugins. I found Search Status to be of extremely high quality. Good Post!
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May 5th, 2009 at 3:47 am
The only one of them I use is search status! I think I will need to look into more of these.
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May 9th, 2009 at 10:39 am
YOu have some really good extensions listed here. link diagnosis is really nice!
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June 15th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
i use SEO and pagerank and they mainly serve my purpose. I am not developer and would appreciate if you can write something about keywords too (until i am missing something here).
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September 22nd, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Great List for better SEO… thanks for it
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