Having the ability to do on page seo analysis directly through Firefox without having to open external software is crucial to productivity and getting the job done in record time.
The following are some of the Firefox Plugins I use and recommend:
SearchStatus is a very convenient extension that has several tools in one. It displays Google PageRank, mozRank, Compete & Alexa Rankings in the browser’s status bar. With a right click of the mouse it gives you some more goodies such as back links, no follow links, keyword density, indexed pages, meta tags, robots.txt & sitemap.xml files.
HttpFox adds a nifty http analyzer right into your browser. This saves a ton of time figuring out a website’s redirects, checking for post & query string parameters, request/header responses and sent/received cookies. This is a must have to troubleshoot any webpage.
SEOBOOK & SEOQuake do basically the same thing. Many of my buddies use SEOQuake while others prefer SEOBOOK. To tell you the truth, I have both installed while having one or the other enabled at different times. Both extensions give you a litany of information when you search for something , such as: a website’s pagerank, Google cache date, domain age, edu/gov/dmoz/yahoo dir links, stumbles, diggs and more.
The Web Developer extension is crucial for any on page seo analysis, minimizing the time you spend going through code. With a few mouse clicks you can enable & disable javascript, meta redirects, cookies & css to let you see what the site architecture is made of. There are a ton of other features within this extension. I recommend installing it and using it with your next project.
What I love about Link Diagnosis is how it displays the data. It pulls links from Yahoo! and it sorts them by PageRank and it gives you the corresponding anchor texts and categorizes them as a follow or no follow link. It gives you a count of anchor texts, a pagerank distribution bar chart and the type of links in a pie chart. Although this plugin is not a one stop solution for inbound link analysis, it is certainly one of the many I use.
So there you go, that’s my list of favorite firefox extensions for SEO. Let me know if you know of any other extensions that we should have covered in this post.
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