Top Firefox SEO Plugin Extensions

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Jun

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Most definitely the best SEO firefox plugin. This plugin has everything you need and was developed by  local South African Quirk Stars. Hands-down this excels above all the other plugins I have seen out there. You can check follow/nofollow links, take a look at the whois, or view the robots.txt file all from your Firefox browser. This plugin should be in every search engine marketer’s tool kit.

You can also:

  • Show your Google Pagerank, MozRank and Alexa Rank.
  • Show backlinks from Google, Yahoo and Yahoo site explorer.
  • Show indexed pages for Google Yahoo and the new Bing search engine
  • Display your page in the way back machine
  • Count all the links on your site including follow/nofollow, internal/external and secure links.
  • Highlight nofollow links to see who is not spreading the link love.

This plugin is compatible with all Firefox releases including  Firefox 3.5 (Release Candidate)

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Firebug

firebugThis plugin is great for SEO/developers who are looking to do back-end analysis of their sites. Firebug allows you to edit and manipulate the code of a site directly in the browser. This plugin works well for troubleshooting and debugging  small javascript errors or more complex errors.

You can also:

  • Inspect and edit HTML
  • Tweek CSS to your liking
  • View network activity for slow loading pages
  • Execute Javascript

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SEO for Firefox

This plugin comes in handy with useful information displayed within your Google search results. It has all the standard stuff including pageRank, Alexa ranking and site-age capabilities. While this plugin shows excellent resources, please know that in South Africa it can dramatically slow down your search. I recommend not having any other result manipulator filters or plugins installed at the same time as using this plugin.

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Other useful Firefox plugins

Though I do not use these plugins as much as the above three, these SEO plugins come in handy now and then.

  • yExplore allows you to easily access Yahoo Site Explorer.
  • SEOMoz Rank Checker If you have a SEOMoz Pro account then this has a variety of cool tools accessed directly from the plugin.
  • SEOQuake is very similar to SEO for Firefox and offers most of the same tools.

SEO extensions to avoid

As Google has ruled out that keyword density has anything to do with pageRank it is best to avoid extensions that measure keyword density. You are wasting your time trying to create dense keywords for better search results, rather stick to valuable relevant content.

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  • http://www.nizzleworkz.co.za/ Lisa

    Thanks for the list! Firebug is also one of my favourites

  • http://www.nizzleworkz.co.za Lisa

    Thanks for the list! Firebug is also one of my favourites

  • http://www.twitter.com/djonesuk Dave Jones

    Great article, although I think you have somewhat confused Page Rank with organic search results.
    Page Rank is a number between 0 and 10 that is determined by a patented method based on inbound links. Whilst you are correct taht keyword density has nothing to do with Page Rank, it does affect organic search results as these are based on both Page Rank and hypertext-matching analysis to determine which pages are relevant to the specific search being conducted.
    I wholeheartedly commend your advice to “stick to valuable relevant content” and would always follow that route myself. However I do find it annoying when my genuine sales copy and content is competing with keyword stuffed trash.

  • http://www.twitter.com/djonesuk Dave Jones

    Great article, although I think you have somewhat confused Page Rank with organic search results.
    Page Rank is a number between 0 and 10 that is determined by a patented method based on inbound links. Whilst you are correct taht keyword density has nothing to do with Page Rank, it does affect organic search results as these are based on both Page Rank and hypertext-matching analysis to determine which pages are relevant to the specific search being conducted.
    I wholeheartedly commend your advice to “stick to valuable relevant content” and would always follow that route myself. However I do find it annoying when my genuine sales copy and content is competing with keyword stuffed trash.

  • seocowboy

    @dave I thank you for that insight, I guess density does have a little to do with organic ranking, however I do not believe any density tool will give you more common sense knowledge needed to make the content enjoyable for the reader and friendly for the search engines. Google is smart, and Matt Cutts has announced that density is a very small factor.

    Ref: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-writing-useful-articles-that-readers-will-love/

  • seocowboy

    @dave I thank you for that insight, I guess density does have a little to do with organic ranking, however I do not believe any density tool will give you more common sense knowledge needed to make the content enjoyable for the reader and friendly for the search engines. Google is smart, and Matt Cutts has announced that density is a very small factor.

    Ref: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-writing-useful-articles-that-readers-will-love/

  • http://www.google.com/ KonstantinMiller

    Hi. I like the way you write. Will you post some more articles?

  • http://www.google.com KonstantinMiller

    Hi. I like the way you write. Will you post some more articles?

  • seocowboy

    @KonstantinMiller Thanks for the compliment, I will be doing at least one article a week :), so be sure to check back.

  • seocowboy

    @KonstantinMiller Thanks for the compliment, I will be doing at least one article a week :), so be sure to check back.