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Besides using such obvious Firefox add-ons and toolbars like those for StumbleUpon, Delicious and Browzmi (the StumbleUpon, Twitter & Mixx combination on steroids) what does a holistic SEO 2.0 aficionado like Tad Chef use daily or very often? Here are the top 10 Firefox extensions for search, website optimization and SEO I use:
googlebar
The original googlebar for Firefox without the call mothership function thus not to mix up with the Google toolbar
Customize Google
Allows me to nuke all that unnecessary and distracting Google Ads in search results among a plethora of other options.
Search Status
This one makes me see who kills which links by nofollow attribute and to take a look at Penis-length, sorry PageRank of sites etc.
SEOpen
This toolbar is just basically a set of short cuts to online tools but nonetheless very useful.
Rank Checker
Aaron Wall’s Rank Checker helps me obsessing about rankings in Google when I feel like SEO 1.0
SeoQuake
This extension is both a toolbar and a search results enhancement. I use mainly the latter for SEO research determining who my competition is and how strong
Linkdiagnosis
One of the best backlink checkers on the planet, especially due to its design gets even better with the extension.
Social Media for Firefox
You can quickly check how popular a web page is in the most popular social media.
CSSViewer
For SEO and website optimization indispensable but also very useful for average web development tasks.
Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool
Take a look at the bare naked website as if you’re blind or a search engine bot, maginificent for all 3 design, usability and SEO.
Any other suggestions? I recently disabled or uninstalled more than half of my Firefox extensions due to them slowing or breaking my Firefox installation so please suggest only the best of the best.
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Interesting to see the slightly different view that Yellowpipe Viewer gives to seo-browser.com.
Thanks and agree 100% on Link Diagnosis
Thanks for the list. I was just about to write a blog post very similar to this, so you saved me the time. Now I just have to think of something else exciting and relevant to write about :-).
Hey Tad
One tool I think you should check out is WASP. Fantastic tool for checking analytics installations and crawling sites.
Great list! You also might wanne try the plugin called ‘Seo for firefox’ (google it and you will find a link).
It’s adds some very useful information to google search results!
I cant live without Shareaholic, Firebug and (maybe obvious?!) Gresemonkey.
this is very helpful. Linkdiagnosis is very useful. thanks for the list.
Thanks for the tips…
P.S.
As a sidenote:
MozBackup allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc. for Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Flock, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite, Spicebird and Netscape profiles.
SEO Quake is definitely the best out of the lot. I really like the webdeveloper tool for checking code and H tags etc.
for web development, i recommend firebug too.
I’ve been using SEO for Firefox (by Aaron Wall) and Customize Google - both of which are very useful.
For webdev, I use Web Developer Toolbar and a couple of other extensions for color picking and widths. I’ve read a lot about Firebug and YSlow (for site loading optimization), but never got around to using them.
Some good add ons here, I personally use a bunch of these and they do help an awful lot.
It seems all webmasters use firefox! Do you agree with me?
Thanks for the this list. I hadn’t heard of half of them but will be checking them out/
Thanks for the plugins. I found a few that I wasn’t using yet that will prove beneficial.