The SEO Site Tools Chrome Extension gets you more traffic from Google with Rank Watch, Keyword Suggest, and related search results. It’s a free seo extension for google chrome that allows you to monitor the rank of your websites over time, perform keyword research and find related search results – at a glance! You can create a desktop widget that allows you to check the rank of multiple websites instead of just one. To do this, simply click on the icon in your toolbar, click “Add to desktop”, select which websites you want displayed and click “Add to Chrome”.
Here are my favouritr tools..
Rank checking
Use these extensions to monitor rankings in the SERPs.
SEO Search Simulator by Nightwatch
Emulates Google searches from any location and checks if a particular URL ranks in the top 100 results. Very useful for seeing how rankings vary for a query in different parts of the world.
SERPTrends SEO Extension
Tracks your Google, Bing, and Yahoo searches. Then, if you perform the same search again over time, it shows ranking movements directly in the SERPs.
Buzzsumo
Whether you love or hate Facebook, it’s still a popular site that can drive a lot of traffic.
As you are surfing the web, you’ll naturally end up reading some articles. Some of them will be on your competitor’s site and you may be wondering if the article did well or not.
Using the Buzzsumo extension, you can see how many social shares a given article has as well as their backlinks.
You can even see all the most popular articles from that website based on social sharing and backlink count.
This will give you a good idea about the type of content you need to start producing.
Meta SEO Inspector
Errors can really kill your traffic.
The smallest things like your meta tags can have a big impact on your rankings, so you’ll want to make sure they are fully optimized.
Using Meta SEO Inspector, you can quickly see if your meta tags are set up correctly.
As you can see from the screenshot above, it reports errors.
With that example, I quickly learned that one of my pages doesn’t have an open graph meta tag. That means that when people share that page on the social web, it may not show up correctly, meaning I won’t get as much social media traffic.
Check My Links
Similar to the Redirect Path extension as you are spending more time doing technical SEO and analyzing your competition, the more link data you have the better.
And external links aren’t the only ones that can help boost your rankings.
Knowing data on internal links is important as well.
Check My Links will give you all of the internal links numbers you need when browsing any page on your site (or your competition’s).
And not only will you see an overview, but you can also get details on the whole page as this extension highlights each link.
Pagespeed Insights
Load time doesn’t just impact conversions, it also impacts your rankings.
With nearly 60% of the searches being done from mobile devices, your load time is now more important than ever.
Through the Pagespeed Insights extension, you can quickly see what you need to do to improve your load time on any page on your site.
And if you see a score you don’t like, just click “need more” and it will take you to a detailed report that will give you feedback like this:
When you find a lot of errors, you’ll want to fix them as over time it will boost your rankings.
Yes, this is SEOmoz, so you might expect this to be top of the list. However, SEOmoz has done an exceptional job with this tool. Before becoming a Pro Member I used it daily and now that I’m a pro member it’s always on it. Note: I’m not just saying this to get my blog post boosted to the main blog (wink wink), but it really is the best tool out there and an essential for tool any aspiring SEO.
SEO Site Tools is an all inclusive powerhouse of SEO information. It includes 6 main sections:
- External Page Data
- Page Elements
- Social Media
- Page Terms / Tools
- Server / Domain Info
- Suggestions
Some of the unique features and enhancements include highlighting your domains in Google search, trend data in Google webmaster tools, and Social Media stats in Google Analytics. A close second to MOZbar, this tool is an absolute must.
I don’t know if I’m the first to break news of this tool. But even if you hate Chrome, this tool makes it all worth it. It’s basic, it’s simple, but it has already completely changed the way I work. As the name says you can leave a note… that’s right, anywhere. On any page, on any site… leave… close your browser and come back 2 days later. I just left a note on my home page with new keywords I want to target and a note on my Fantasy Football page with all the players I need to drop (sorry Randy Moss).
Get down and dirty with your code or your competitors code. You’ll be able to find the tweaks and tags that can boost your rankings. Not for the beginner but an absolute must for the OCD expert.
Another holdover from Firefox, IE Tab allows you to browse the web as if you were using IE. I use this extension at least twice a day to confirm page appearance, double check a ranking, or if Chrome is having an issue with loading a page.
I’ve found this tool to be slightly buggy. However, the usefulness is there and I’m sure they’ll iron out the issues soon. Basically what it does is it allows you to check your search rankings per term. Quick and simple, definitely saves time for those of us that occasionally get addicted to checking rank.
Shorten URLs on the fly, add them to history, integrate with social media… do I really need to explain this further? It’s a time saver.
No more CTRL+ALT+PRTSCN, this simple tool by Google let’s you highlight the section of the page you want, highlight the visible area, or highlight the whole page (can’t do that with PRTSCN – that I know of). After you select, annotate, highlight, mark it up however you’d like and then email it to that lazy coworker who can’t find the broken link or misspelled keyword. It’s like slapping them… nicely.
Let’s face it, there’s a lot of information out there for SEO, it’s a highly dynamic industry and you need to be on top of your game to stay in it. Google reader is the essential tool
SEO Minion
SEO is all about the long game.
If you just spend 10 minutes a day making improvements, it can have a huge impact on your traffic a year down the road.
An easy way to get work done each day is through SEO Minion.
One task that I have my team constantly look at through SEO Minion is broken links.
You’ll want to fix any on your website. In addition, you can use it to find broken links on other websites and then hit them up to replace the broken link to one from your site.
Another way to grow your SEO traffic is by translating your content into other languages.
This extension also breaks down hreflang data, which is needed when you are targeting other regions and languages.
You’ll be given data on your on-page SEO.
Link Redirect Trace
Uncovers all URLs in a redirect chain, including 301’s, 302’s and JavaScript redirects. Very useful for finding (and regaining) lost “link juice,” amongst other things.
Other similar extensions: Redirect Path, Ahrefs SEO Toolbar
Google Lighthouse
Audits your page and suggests improvements related to performance, accessibility, developer best practices, and of course, SEO.
AMP Validator
Checks if a page has an AMP version (Accelerated Mobile Page). The tool then runs the AMP validator to see if the page passes or fails.
OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer
Unveils the structured metadata present on any web page. It currently supports Microdata, RDF/XML, RDFa, JSON-LD, Turtle, and POSH.
Other similar extensions: Structured Data Testing Tool
Conclusion
The Seo Site Tools Chrome Extension is a browser extension that will help you improve your site. This tool takes the output from other tools and allows you to filter and manipulate it. It has a list of 50+ tools that it pulls data from. For each tool there are a number of parameters that can be applied to the data.