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20
2008
SEO Plugins for Firefox
Written by Steve Burge   
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Firefox logoI'm sure most of you have heard the trick question for webdesigners: "which browser do you use?".

(The correct answer is "all of them", because designers need to check their work in every major browser.)

SEO people will give you a different answer: "Firefox".

It so many great plugins available that it really is the best browser to use. In honor of Firefox 3's huge launch, here's a rundown of the best plugins available for SEO work:


  • Google Global. Check results in international versions of Google.
  • Header Spy: Show if your site is producing the right header information (301, 404 etc.)
  • KGen: Shows which keywords are strong on a particular page.
  • MetaTags: A side bar menu showing a page’s meta data.
  • No Script: I use this to test how a site will work with all its fancy spider-blocking scripts removed.
  • Rank Checker: Bulk check a large number of keyword rankings from the browser.
  • SEO Quake: Shows large amounts of SEO data for each page.
  • SEO for Firefox: Shows similar data to SEO Quake but in the search results for easy comparisons.
  • Web Developer: Great for finding out why a site runs slowly.
  • yExplore: Easy access to Yahoo Site Explorer info.

Are there any other really useful plugins that I've missed?

 

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#1 Al Hatch 2008-06-20 09:22
How could you forget the Swiss Army knife of plugins for developers?
Firebug www.getfirebug.com/releases/
It enables you to make live changes to any code on a page and witness the results instantly.
Great for tweaking things a few pixels left and right, or to check for bugs.
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#2 ILJ 2008-06-20 22:05
Nice topic Steve, just on time.
there is google toolbar to check google PR as well.
but sometimes there is browser refresh problem for me .
once i gt shocked my site listed as PR8 when the back page is on wiki. lol

http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/index.html
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#3 ILJ 2008-06-21 12:40
I am not sure if any of this links or my bad day was it.
i got spyware installed and took 3 hrs to clean that off.

IF u come across , use this to remove. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
and pls post the link that give the spyware. must not tolerate this act :sad:
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#4 David Towers 2008-06-22 10:30
Good list Steve! I thought of doing a similar post last week but didn't get round to it! The only one you missed off is the Google PR toolbar! :-)

Just a note by the way, if you do go ahead and install all of these plugins your browser will slow down quite a bit!!!
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#5 Anthony Olsen 2008-06-22 16:44
YSlow is a nother useful tool. Its similar to the net feature on firebug and helps you pick up any scripts or elements that are slowing page load down.
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#6 Toma Grubb 2008-06-22 17:52
I have a couple to add.

LinkChecker 0.6.2 Check the validity of links on any webpage

Bookmarks Link Checker 0.6.8.4

I also like a tool that is not browser dependent but does a great job of showing exactly where and what the broken link is. It cost a penny per page, The down side is it is slow on large sites. some sites can take more than a day or two to process but when it does the report shows the page with the 400, 403, 404, 504, and 904 codes flagged on the page for easy identification and correction.
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#7 Toma Grubb 2008-06-22 17:54
Forgot to add the name it is LinkAlarm (linkalarm.com)
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#8 Herbert-Jan van Dinther 2008-06-23 02:33
Great List Steve, allthough Kgen and MetaTags are not for FirFox 3.0 :-(

Here is another one for you list as webedeveloper: www.totalvalidator.com/tool/extension.html.
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#9 Anthony Olsen 2008-06-23 02:35
Hmm turns out YSlow is an addon to firebug ... here is the link: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
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#10 Herbert-Jan van Dinther 2008-06-23 03:15
Hi Steve, The plugins does not work on Firefox anymore, but the website is great for International analysis: oyoy.eu/
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