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Search Engine Optimization, or SEO is the process of structuring your web page so that search engines can reach, read and index your page in a higher ranking and finally bring more organic traffic to you.
So, who should perform SEO for our websites, the web designers or the bloggers? Obviously, SEO should be done by web designers as well as the bloggers. Why i said so? Web designers should design the page structure so that the page can easily be read and indexed by search engine while the bloggers should make sure the articles contain keywords that can really generate traffic.
As a blogger, you are encouraged to use Wordpress as your blogging platform. Why? Because Wordpress has a lot of awesome plugins for SEO purpose and it is well-structure for SEO purpose.
Today, we are going to look into 15+ Useful Firefox SEO tools and extensions for bloggers. Web designers who run blog may also need these tools.
1. SEO for Firefox
SEO for Firefox is definitely the most powerful Firefox SEO plugin. This plugin pulls useful marketing data points and integrate into your search results. For example, it pulls the PR, delicious save counts, Technorati links, Alexa rank, WhoIs information and etc. You can selectively turn it on and off by using the icon at Firefox status bar.
2. SeoQuake
SeoQuake is a program that integrated in Firefox so that users can view a large number of search engine parameters on the fly. It consists of SeoToolbar, Seobar, and output of requested parameters on Search Engine Result Pages.
3. SEO Link Analysis
SEO Link Analysis enriches the link data in Google Webmaster Tools & Yahoo! Site Explorer by showing the PageRank of the linking page, the anchor text and whether the link is followed, nofollowed or no longer exists.
4. Rank Checker
Rank Checker is another tool from SeoBook. This tool can track and record search engine ranking for a page in Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search. The results are saved in the PC, so users no need to worry about the privacy issue.
5. LinkDiagnosis Firefox Extension
This plugin allow users to see Google PR and anchor text of every backlink, most popular anchor texts and charts with breakdown of pagerank and link types.
6. Smart PageRank
Smart PageRank is a small, simple yet powerful Firefox extension that gain you quick access to Alexa Rank, Google PR, value, WhoIs and backlinks’ PR of the current page that you are viewing.
7. RankQuest SEO Toolbar
The Rankquest SEO Toolbar provides you quick access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Example of the tools are Validation tools, Content tools, Meta tools, Popularity tools, Search Engine tools and SEM tools.
8. Quirk Search Status
SearchStatus is a toolbar extension for Firefox and Mozilla that allows you to see how any and every website in the world is performing. It provide a lot of useful information such as Google PR, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, mozRank, WhoIs, quick link to robos.txt and sitemap.xml, and etc. You can easily access these information from the Searc Status icon at the status bar.
9. HTML Validator
I had covered this plugin from my previous post about useful Firefox plugins for Web designers and developers. So, why i am saying this plugin is useful for SEO? It is because errors in the HTML structure will affects your page ranking and this tool can helps you to validate those errors. Basically, you should ask your designers to perform validation using this tool before he passes the themes to you.
10. SEOpen
Provides some basic tools to help with search engine optimization. Including google backlinks, yahoo backlinks, PageRank check, http header viewer, and more. All features are available by right-clicking on an open area of a web page, or by using the included toolbar.
11. Google Global Firefox Extension
Google Global Firefox Extension lets users to view organic and paid Google search results as they appear in almost any location on Earth. You can access this tool from the content menu or toolbar.
12. Foxy SEO Tool
Foxy SEO Tool is a free, open source Firefox add-on that offers tools for search engine optimization (SEO), web traffic and page analysis, for webmasters and web professionals.
13. Socialphile
Socialphile Firefox Extension assists users with comfortable searching based on ranking of each search result at social news websites. It allows users to submit search result directly to social news websites. Currently, Socialphile only supports Digg.com, but the developers will add more social news websites in the future.
14. KGen
KGen allows you to get the most important keywords of a webpage. It’s really usefull to analyze the SEO strategy of your competitors or simply know what’s the main subject of a webpage.
15. Niche Watch Tool
Niche Watch Tool gives you backlinks number, indexed pages, keyword occurences on the page, page rank, all in anchor, all in title and all in text rank for both domain and webpage information.
16. User Agent Switcher
User Agent Switcher is a useful Firefox plugin which able to switch the user agent of the browser. Users can use this tool to pretend themselves to be a search engine and see what search engine sees the webpage.
Kgen is very useful
Thanks
Many thanks man, thanks for compiling this list.
A good one to add to the list is the do/nofollow plugin. It’s a simple that shows which links are followed by search engine spiders. Very useful for PR sculpting and link building.
Excellent list, most I knew but a few new ones to me also. One I would suggest adding is Social Media for Firefox extension by 97th floor. It allows you to see how many votes the page you’re on has on digg/stumble/reddit/delicious/twitter/spinn/mix and to submit to any of those with a click.
See:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7888
and
http://www.97thfloor.com/social-media-for-firefox/
The Web Developer Toolbar is a good one as well, and does validation as well. It’s my favorite toolbar, and I made the Twitter Toolbar.
thanks i willy these now with my uk weeds site.
Nice list! I use most of these but see a couple of new ones to try.
I’m a new fan of Google Global Firefox Extension, especially for quick-checking results in many Spanish-speaking countries.
Firefox rocks
Thanks for the great list I love firefox because of the great plugins available. I already use SEO for firefox. I will be adding some of the others and retweeting this list for sure.
Great list! can’t wait to see your Firefox SMO-social media Extensions list…check out this collection:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/smo
Great list!
thanks!
we added this to our mozilla SEO addon Collection check it out:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/seo
useful post, thanks
a very nice resource. keep it up with the updates.
Very nice list but I only use tools from SEO Book and they’re just perfect. Can’t imagine doing competitive research without them.
Thanks!
I have got this seo tool, it really good.
10x for the list!
add : Web Developer Toolbar
useful seo tools, thanks for the list..
i just love to read anything and everything about SEO. nice post.
thanks
Thanks you too much dude, i am waiting to it’s new version now!
Dude, you forgot the best plugin of all; Firebug!!!
Hmm…. How to you link firebug with SEO? Some of my friends told me Firebug is for SEO too, but i personally think it is more suitable for designers/developers.
I just wanted to say thanks, you guys rock!
Cool list. I have just now posted a list of Firefox collections plugins, do check out and see if you can add to that.
has anyone tried foxyrank already?
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/statistics/addon/9022
thanks for making this list, I was aware of some of these already but your list has added a few more to my own. Thanks again for taking the time to help me.
Hi Kaplang,
You are welcome. I hope these tools will help you in SEO.
it really good.
Thank you for the list of Firefox SEO tools.
I am hoping you could help me. I have spent the last few months looking for a really simple tool. I was hoping you would know of one that could help me.
I have a list of urls that we have added a link to, we have the anchor text, and we have the links that the anchor text is pointing to.
Every program that I have tried requires that we add a SINGLE DOMAIN and then it verifies that the link is pointing back.
I would like to upload a list of different domains that different links are pointing to.
Thus, I would add a csv containing the link where the url is, the anchor text and the url the link is pointing to and the software would verify that this is correct.
Thanks.
Great. I did know some of it but theres a lot of new ones. Hope to try one of the new ones and ill give you feedback.
Thanks.
thanks for sharing fire fox seo tools, i have found this addon for firefox useful for webdesigners http://karmatics.com/aardvark/
Great list!Thanks
Thanks for the great list I use Seoquake the most but will try the others!
Great collection of SEO tools! Will prove really useful in the future! Thanks for compiling the list!
Really great list. I only knew about SEO for Firefox and the Rank Checker. Will definitely try all these.
Thanks
Great post! I have used Seo Quake since it first came out and It’s one of my stand by tools
This is great list thanks I use SEOQuake everyday a fantastic tool
Thanks
I am going to try LinkDiagnosis Firefox Extension this plugin looks good might save a lot of time and let me find easy comp to beat
This is great list thanks,
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Thanks for post. Congratulations.
thanks i willy these now with my uk weeds site.
Thanks for more information about SEO tools.The process of getting your website to the top of the search engines. Its also good to know about this SEO tool.Thank you.
FireLinkReport to view all links on a page (Firebug is required)
WebRank Toolbar
A toolbar that will give you the rank(Google Pagerank, Alexa, Compete and Quantcast) of the website currently being viewed and pages indexed in various search engines(Google, Bing and Yahoo). It is a great tool for SEOs and website analyzers.
WebRank Toolbar Link – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/52177/