Website maintenance can be one of the most frustrating things about SEO. If you find yourself dealing with the same problem over and over again, odds are there’s a quick fix for it somewhere on the Internet. Seo Tools for Firefox is my list of websites that will solve these problems for you so you’ll never have to go looking for answers again.
I’m a huge fan of Firefox. It’s fast, free, and open source software that gives you a degree of privacy and control over your online life. I use it for many things, from searching to my newsfeeds. After upgrading from my aging Lenny to a brand new Fedora 26 recently, I have been discovering some great enhancements within Firefox itself as well as two must-have add-ons – Seo Tools and Web Developer Toolbar.
SEOquake
SEOquake is a free SEO extension by Semrush which helps you accelerate your SEO efforts on the fly. SEOquake provides you with key SEO metrics for a specific page, along with other useful tools such as the SEO Audit tool, the Keyword Density report, Internal/External link analysis, and even social metrics.
With SEOquake installed on your Firefox, you can:
- Get an SEO overview of any page at a glance
- Discover your SERP competitors’ strengths and weaknesses
- Analyze a webpage’s external and internal links
- Get detailed information about your backlinks and much more.
Mangools SEO Extension
Mangools SEO extension allows you to speed up your SEO right in your browser.
With this free extension added to your Firefox, you can see all the key SEO metrics, popularity trends, backlinks, and on-page SEO insights of any domain or URL.
Foxy SEO Tool
Foxy SEO Tool is an exclusive add-on to Firefox which provides quick and easy access to a multitude of search engine functions and web traffic analysis sites such as Alexa, Compete, and Semrush.
With this tool, you can check your website’s listing in important directories, references in Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, and find shortcuts to useful network functions and social media sites.
Link Redirect Trace
Link Redirect Trace lets you perform advanced and comprehensive analysis of links, redirects, and canonical URLs.
Here are some of the things you can use this Firefox add-on for:
- Check for problems with your site’s on-page SEO
- Check for problems with your site’s off-page SEO (incoming links)
- Perform competitor research
- Check your affiliate links
- Understand the full redirect chain
- Check your links after a website migration or redesign
- Check if a shortened URL points to a dangerous website
- Trace a hacker website redirect
- Track links from advertising and affiliate networks.
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.
HTML Validator
Fixing errors in your main site is a must for SEO. This enables the search engines to crawl your site easily and also let’s the search engines know that you site is not full of bugs. The Html validator will show you where the errors are and this will in turn help you easily fix them
Firebug
This was my very first Firefox add-on and it’s still my favorite. This plugin completely changed the way I built and tweaked websites. Firebug allows you to inspect and edit the HTML and CSS of the page your working on directly in your web browser all in real-time. No more fudging padding over one pixel at a time, uploading to your server, refreshing your page and hoping it worked. Simply work on the source code for a web page directly in Firebug until it’s perfect and then copy the code into the real file.
This doesn’t sound particularly useful as an SEO tool yet though right? Where it really comes into play is when you are working on your on-page SEO. You can edit your XHTML structure or content directly in the browser and tweak the visible effects of, for instance, changing some text on a page to an <h1> tag. Once you are happy you can push your edits and not sweat the outcome.
Web Developer Toolbar
The Web Developer Extension adds a menu and toolbar to Firefox that gives you many tools to analyze and manipulate information on a web page. Quick access to view source, validation and outlining of page elements and headlines are a few of its core features. It also allows you to toggle on and off the JavaScript and CSS on a page. Disabling the styling and hiding images gives you a great view when looking over the structure of a page and seeing a website as a search engine would see a site. I use this often to show clients what their website looks like to a search spider to show that their flash menu or image only site isn’t cutting it.
Link Research SEO Toolbar
Link Research SEO Toolbar lets you view all the advanced SEO metrics for every page you visit on Firefox.
Here are some of the things you can do with this extension:
- See the power and trust of a domain or page
- Discover great places to get links from
- See how successful a page is on social media
- Understand user engagement
- See the strongest pages by Keyword Ranking
- Spot drastic changes in the number of links
- See how many backlinks a page has.
Keywords Everywhere
Keywords Everywhere add-on for Firefox is a free keyword research tool that shows you useful keyword search volume, CPC, and competition data on 15+ websites, including Google Search Console, Google Analytics, UberSuggest, Majestic, Moz Open Site Explorer, AnswerthePublic, YouTube, Amazon, eBay, Bing, Etsy and more.
This browser extension saves you the hassle of copying data from various websites and using the Keyword Planner tool in Google Ads to see relevant search volume and CPC data.
Conclusion
Seo Tools for Firefox is a collection of web tools that help increase your SEO knowledge and performance. It is organized into two main categories: Knowledge and Tools. The Knowledge section contains detailed guides on Google, Yahoo, Bing, and many other topics. The Tools section contains various Firefox plugins that make analyzing web pages easier. This section also includes a Chrome browser extension to analyze web pages with Google Webmaster Tools in mind.