Tuesday, March 24, 2009

SEO Add-ons - Firefox Addons for SEO purpose.

Hi All,

As my days affiliated to a SEO company are numbered. I wish to spread the tools that helped me with the SEO process till date.

Below is the list of Mozilla Firefox Add-ons that I have running on my copy of the browser.

If not all you have to try the ones marked (Must Have)

1. FEBE (Must Have)
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109
Description: FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences, passwords, cookies and just about everything else Firefox offers (it can even backup/restore your entire profile).

2. FireBug (Must Have)
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
Description: You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

3. Firefox Universal Uploader (fireuploader)
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4724
Description: This extension allows to upload/download files from your favorite websites using a simple interface.

4. FireFTP
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684
Description: FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers

5. FoxyTunes (Must Have)
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/219
Description: FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.

6. GA? Is Google Analytics Installed
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5631
Description: Checks to see if Google Analytics is installed on any given page.

7. IE Tab (Must Have)
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
Description: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox

8. InFormEnter
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/673
Description: InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted - no typing required.

9. Interclue
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4999
Description: Interclue tells you everything you need to know before you open yet another tab.

10. Mouse Gestures Redox (Must Have) (Must Have) (Must Have)
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/39
Description: Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage, without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard.

11. Popup ALT Attribute (Must Have)
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1933
Description: Popups alternate texts of images.

12. RankChecker (Must Have) (Must Have) (Must Have) (Must Have)
URL 1: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/
URL2: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/RankChecker.xpi (Direct Download)
Description: Allows you to easily check your website rankings in Google (US and international), Yahoo, and Microsoft Live search.
Video Overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X__ngJcrOYU

13. RSVP Reader
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2149
Description: A rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) tool that some research suggests may allow people to read text on the web up to 3.5 times faster.

14. SearchStatus (Must Have)
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/321
Description: Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete ranking and SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.

15. SeoQuake SEO extension
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3036
Description: Seoquake allows obtaining and investigating many important SEO parameters of the internet project under study on the fly, save them for future work, comparing them with the results, obtained for other, competitive, projects.

16. ShowIP
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/590
Description: Show the IP address(es) of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom services by IP (right mouse button) and hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft. Additionally you can copy the IP address to the clipboard.

17. Tab Mix Plus (Must Have)
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122
Description: Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager.

18. Web Developer
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
Description: Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

19. Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool (Must Have)
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1944
Description: You can see what what a page will look like when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser. It is also presumably, how search engines see your site. In addition, it can help determine if web pages are accessible to the vision impaired.

20. SEO for Firefox (Must Have) (Must Have) (Must Have)
URL1: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html
URL2: http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo4firefox.xpi
Description: SEO for Firefox pulls in many useful marketing data points to make it easy get a holistic view of the competitive landscape of a market directly in the search results.
Video Overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kc4NiQDkjQ

I hope some of these add-ons make your SEO process more effective.

Please leave any more SEO tools that you may have in the comments. :-)

3 comments:

Arunesh said...

try Counterpixel
CustomizeGoogle
Domain Details
Google Global
LinkChecker
Peers
SEOpen
Ubiquity
Wappalyser

Zia said...

Thanks!

http://zia.blogspot.com/search/label/firefox

SEO said...

Thanks For The Great Post!