Posted 16 July 2008 08:39am by Graham Charlton with 9 comments

One benefit of using Firefox is that it has a community of third party developers designing some very useful (and free) add-ons for the browser's users.

We've taken a look at some SEO-related examples....

SEO for Firefox

This tool from SEO Book adds further information to Google and Yahoo search results by telling you how and why particular websites are ranking.

Among the information listed is Page Rank, links from .edu sites, links from Yahoo Directory, domain age, and more. A useful tool.

MetaTags

This SEO add-on provides a side bar menu showing information about the web page you have visited.

The data shown includes a web page’s meta data, links, keyword frequency and more.

SeoQuake

Like SEO Book's add-on, SeoQuake makes research easier by providing information such as Page Rank, number of links, links from social media sites etc. Users can have the SEO information they want to view displayed in a toolbar.
yExplore

This provides quick and easy access to Yahoo Site Explorer. Right click on a web page and select yExplore, and Site Explorer for that URL will be opened in a new tab.

KGen

This keyword generator allows you to see which keywords are strong on any webpage you visit, Ideal for checking out what your competitors are doing.

SearchStatus

Like SeoQuake, this displays the Page Rank, Alexa and Compete rankings, but SearchStatus also displays keyword and no follow highlighting.  

Link Evaluator

This tool automatically follows the links on a web pages, assessing the response of each URL.

Flagfox

This displays a flag in the browser status bar to indicate which country a website's server is based in, as well as other location and web server information.

RankQuest SEO Toolbar

This performs a lot of the above SEO tasks in one toolbar. Includes keyword finder, link popularity tool, Page Rank, AdWords generator and more, with more than 30 SEO tools.

X-Ray

X-Ray looks beneath the surface of web pages, allowing you to see the tags without viewing the sourcecode.

Related research:
SEO Roundtable Briefing - May 2008

Related articles:
How the new TLDs could impact your search rankings
Google's Flash indexing - good or bad for SEO?  

Graham Charlton is Senior Reporter at Econsultancy. Follow him on Twitter or connect via Linkedin

Reader comments (9):

  1. Richard Hartigan

    9:16AM on 17th July 2008

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    It would be good to know how these tools are applied by search marketers and agencies alike. I have so many tools in play but none of them I feel I can rely on for useful insight. The majority are too US focussed for the UK market.

    The best free tool on the market for SEO's is fiddlertool (www.fiddlertool.com). This tool logs all the HTTP traffic between a computer and the internet so you can check that pages are performing as efficiently as possible for SEO. It's particularly useful for verifying any redirects activity.

  2. Lana

    4:52PM on 14th December 2008

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    Zapoznaj sie z regulaminem

     PR: wait... I: wait... L: wait... LD: wait... I: wait...wait... I: wait... L: wait... C: wait... SD: wait...
  3. Lana

    4:52PM on 14th December 2008

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    Zapoznaj sie z regulaminem

     PR: wait... I: wait... L: wait... LD: wait... I: wait...wait... I: wait... L: wait... C: wait... SD: wait...
  4. Technology Blog

    1:24PM on 3rd March 2009

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    I've used most of the extensions but i've never heard about "SEO Quake". Will check it out

    Another good one is a Web developer toolbar. Comes in handy

  5. Ross Kendall

    1:41PM on 20th March 2009

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    Another useful extension is called 'Search Status'

    "Display the Google PageRank, Alexa rank, Compete ranking and SEOmoz Linkscape mozRank anywhere in your browser, along with fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more."

  6. k madhav

    11:01AM on 20th April 2009

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    yes, this is very helpful addons for seo. most of addons are new for me. Seoquake  i am using. Data Recovery. http://www.stellarinfo.com

  7. Asif

    10:59AM on 22nd April 2009

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    A nice eddtions.

     

  8. Jonathan

    6:18PM on 1st June 2009

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