My top Google Chrome extensions to help with SEO…
Google Chrome has quickly become my favourite web browser simple because of its lightning load speeds and fantastic array of plugins available to help with SEO, design and general time consuming tasks.
Here are my top 11 Google Chrome extensions:
Chrome SEO
The Google Chrome SEO Extension. All the SEO Stats and Tools you need to make daily SEO easier. The MOST popular Chrome SEO Plugin!
Firebug
Firebug Lite provides the rich visual representation we are used to see in Firebug when it comes to HTML elements, DOM elements, and Box Model shading. It provides also some cool features like inspecting HTML elements with your mouse, and live editing CSS properties.
goo.gl URL Shortener
goo.gl url shortener is an extension which allows you to shorten the current website URL with the Google URL Shortener service.
IE Tab
Use Internet Explorer to display web pages in a Chrome tab. Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without leaving Chrome.
SearchPreview for Google
The extension previously known as GooglePreview. SearchPreview adds preview images (thumbnails) to your Google search results.
SEO Site Tools
Displays On-Page / External metrics, Social Media info, PR / numbering on Yahoo, Bing, Google SERPs, Extends WMT, YSE and GA with metrics and much more.
Web Developer
The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools.
SEO SERP
A simple tool to quickly check the position of a list of sites given a keyword.
MOZbar
The SEOmoz toolbar highlights many key areas include, mozrank, link metrics, nofollowed links, linkscape metrics and more.
View Page as Text
This is about as close as you can get to ‘Google goggles’ and it’s essential that you understand how the search engines will see your site.
NoFollow Spotter
The Nofollow Spotter is a simple extension that colours the nofollow links in the webpage in a red background with a red border. No settings needed.
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About the author: Dave Cain is an SEO with 10 years digital marketing experience. He can be followed on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ or you can subscribe to his RSS feed.
February 10, 2011
Excellent post. Extremely useful information specifically the link to the SEO wiki checker :)
February 25, 2011
Hi Dave, thanks for mentioning the Nofollow Spotter. Glad you like it.
Hoping to get some more SEO plugins online later on.