Jun 20 2008
SEO Plugins for Firefox Print
Friday, 20 June 2008

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?

Comments (16)Add Comment
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written by Al Hatch, June 20, 2008
How could you forget the Swiss Army knife of plugins for developers?
Firebug http://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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written by ILJ, June 20, 2008
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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written by ILJ, June 21, 2008
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 smilies/angry.gif
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written by Good Web Practices, June 22, 2008
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! smilies/smiley.gif

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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written by Anthony Olsen, June 22, 2008
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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written by Toma Grubb, June 22, 2008
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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written by Toma Grubb, June 22, 2008
Forgot to add the name it is LinkAlarm
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written by Hummerbie, June 23, 2008
Great List Steve, allthough Kgen and MetaTags are not for FirFox 3.0 :-(

Here is another one for you list as webedeveloper: http://www.totalvalidator.com/tool/extension.html.
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written by Anthony Olsen, June 23, 2008
Hmm turns out YSlow is an addon to firebug ... here is the link: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
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written by Hummerbie, June 23, 2008
Hi Steve, The plugins does not work on Firefox anymore, but the website is great for International analysis: http://oyoy.eu/
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written by ILJ, June 23, 2008
@Hummerbie.


is the link u posted ur site?Great information there. smilies/wink.gif
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written by Hummerbie, June 23, 2008
@ILJ

No, said to say, but it is not my site...
I write on[url= www.pathos-seo.com] [url]www.pathos-seo.com en www.hummerbie.com, of which the Blogs are both mentioned here before by Steve in his Post
http://www.alledia.com/blog/jo...t-to-read/
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written by Stephen Moseley, June 27, 2008
I'll second (or third) the addition of YSlow. It love how it breaks down size by component. I know you can see this in firebug, but YSlow has been a great addition when I'm trying to do some speed optimization.
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written by agung, July 12, 2008
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written by Ricardo brosnan, July 15, 2008
As a SEO specialist i personally use this tool and i also recommend this to others as it has many useful features too but the plug ins that is being discussed here are not alive right now. In spite of all these the firefox is an excellent software to use.
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written by Maria Reyes-McDavis, October 10, 2008
Great list of plugins SEO plugins for Firefox :-)

Maria

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