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Jun

2008

SEO Plugins for Firefox

Written by Steve Burge

I'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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Your Comments (20)

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.

ILJ

June 21, 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

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

David Towers

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!

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!!!

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.

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.

Toma Grubb

June 22, 2008

Forgot to add the name it is LinkAlarm

Herbert-Jan van Dinther

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.

Anthony Olsen

June 23, 2008

Hmm turns out YSlow is an addon to firebug ... here is the link: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

Herbert-Jan van Dinther

June 23, 2008

Hi Steve, The plugins does not work on Firefox anymore, but the website is great for International analysis: http://oyoy.eu/

ILJ

June 23, 2008

@Hummerbie.

is the link u posted ur site?Great information there. smilies/wink.gif

Herbert-Jan van Dinther

June 23, 2008

@ILJ

No, said to say, but it is not my site...
I write on [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/

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.

agung

July 12, 2008

search status firefox SEO toolbar

one link added

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.

Maria Reyes-McDavis

October 10, 2008

Great list of plugins SEO plugins for Firefox :-)

Maria

moritz

February 14, 2009

i like this tool a lot

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/9022

its called foxyrank and i use it to see if a webpage is locked in the robots.txt

Filme Gucken

December 16, 2009

I can suggest SeoBook, SEO Link Anaysis, SenSEO, and SeoQuake. Those make me happy!!
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Filme Gucken

December 16, 2009

Hey Steve
Thanks for the list.
I would like to add Searchstatus, Seo Link Analysis, SenSeo and Pagespeed (very awesome plugin) plugins

roman75

January 12, 2010

Good Firebug (which is must have for every web developer and SEO) extension that shows all links on the current page in one list with all link information such as nofollow, text, title, etc.

http://www.softwarecocktail.co...inkreport/