The Mozilla Firefox web browser is the most popular browser on the market, far ahead of all the competition. It is also an e SEO tool, with plenty of features to improve your site’s ranking. Mozilla offers alternative methods for extension installation that are not present in Google Chrome or Internet Explorer. Here are my top extensions that I use everyday.
SEO is one of the best, but sometimes difficult parts of a website, and the technical requirements to make your project successful. Today I want to introduce five Firefox extensions that can improve your SEO regardless of where you work – regardless of what kind of website – regardless of your budget.
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.
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.
SEO Toolbar by SEOmoz
SEO Toolbar by SEOmoz is again a very popular SEO tool to verify SEO factors like Domain Authority, Page, Mozrank, the domains and URL’s SERP overlay with in-depth links metics and linking to the page.
The analyze option which gives you detailed page elements which then verifies for factors like meta description, title tag and header tags. Page attributes verifies for webpage load times, Meta robots.
And yes! If you are premium member, you can access more features. The open site explorer gives information on linking domains, inbound links, advanced reports and anchor text. To get more out of this, you need to be a paid member of SEOmoz.
SenSEO
Sensational SEO, commonly known as SenSEO does not require restarting after the installation is complete.
It verifies for the webpage essential elements like checks forMeta description, title and Meta keywords, also includes more features like verifying the domain, URL path, headlines, page load time and micro data. Once the installation is over, the SenSEO search icon can be seen in the search bar.
SEO & Website Analysis
This tool comes from the people from woorank.com and gives in-depth analysis with 50 plus SEO factors. When the installation is over, a “W” icon can be seen in the bottom right corner when clicked gives the woorank out of 100 and generates the in depth report.
The report verification of the site and gives the particulars on errors to be fixed and top importance which needs to be acted upon and also checks for number of SEO parameters like links, content, authority, keywords and backlinks.
Affilorama SEO Tool
Affilorama SEO tool is an easy to use toolbar which gives analysis on Alexa Traffic, PageRank, and Backlinks for the site in Yahoo and Google, indexing info and on-page detail info like Meta keywords, Meta description, title, link scanner which colorizes the external links in the website and info on domain.
The tool when downloaded can be seen in the right corner of your Firefox browser’s address bar. To get more option, just right click on the link which is next to Alexa.
Rank CheckerRank Checker is a tool that checks keywords how they are ranking in the major search engines. You simply type in the keyword or keyphrase according to the domain it is you would like to see results on, and instead of viewing results in the search engine it gives you the results all in one place. You can then export the results to csv if you wish for later use. |
LinkDiagnosis Firefox Extension
This plugin allow users to see Google PR and anchor text of every backlink, most popular anchor texts and charts with breakdown of pagerank and link types.
Conclusion
We all know Mozilla Firefox is the king of open-source browsers. It has its shortcomings, but as far as web browsers go, it’s probably at the top of your list. I won’t be telling you to switch to Chrome or even Internet Explorer because that would be foolish; we’re talking about the best browser out there — Mozilla Firefox — and today, we’re going to dig into why this browser is considered to be the best and how you can use it for SEO purposes!