9 SEO FireFox Plugins I Can’t Live Without
Yes, I know there are much more great FireFox plugins but I am sharing only those I am using myself and find really useful.
Before I start, here is an overview of what I am going to talk about:
| Plugin | Most useful feature | How often I use it |
| SEOQuake | Any page instant SEO analysis | A few times a day |
| SearchStatus | Google, Alexa, Compete Rank Toolbar | Multiple times a day |
| Google toolbar | Google search and suggestions | Multiple times a day |
| Rank Checker button | Instantly checks a site SE rankings | Once a week |
| User Agent Switcher | Change the user agent | Once a month |
| SEO for FireFox | Exhaustive SEO analysis within search results | A few times a day |
| Compete.com | Site traffic information | Once a week |
| Web Developer | Instant access to image and link information | Once a day |
| Page Age | Get the page age | Once a day |
1. SEOQuake
Most useful features:
- Get instant access to any information about the page you have opened: Google index, Yahoo! backlinks, Alexa Rank, archive age, Del.icio.us mentions, subpages, source, Whois, keyword density and many more.
- Integrate all the above data in your Google, Yahoo and MSN search results page. Sort the results by any of the parameters.
- Fully customizable: add/exclude any of the parameters; make the tool work faster by showing all the info only by request; add your own features.
2. SearchStatus
Most useful features:
- Google PageRank, Alexa Rank and Compete.com Rank toolbars for every page you visit.
- Highlight nofollow links, access any page matatags with one click, view the link report and robots.txt info.
Most useful features:
- Search Google and see your search history and Google suggestions;
- Access your mail with one click.
4. SEOMoz Rank Checker button - allows you to check rankings of any page by one click (the tool was also described here).
5. User Agent Switcher - check your website with the user agent being Googlebot, for example.
Most useful features:
- an exhaustive SEO report on each page integrated within your search results page: Google PR, Google cache date, age, Del.icio.us mentions, Y! links, Y! .edu links, Y! .gov links, Y! page links, Compete.com Rank, Compete.com uniques, number of cached pages, Dmoz/Yahoo directory/Botw presence, Whois;
- an instant access to other great SEO research tools: keyword research, GoogleAdwords tool, traffic estimator, Google trends;
- export to CSV function.
7. Compete.com toolbar - the one I don’t use too often but I like the site profile feature.
8. Web Developer plugin has plenty of great features; I will mention only those I use most often.
Most useful features:
- shows image Alt text;
- Java disable option;
- shows image and link titles.
9. Page Age shows age for the page you are located at.
Source: Search Engine Journal
