3 Great SEO Plug-ins for Firefox

When it comes to search engine marketing strategy, software tools are necessary to understand and monitor how you are doing in any key area online. One of the great things about using Firefox as your web browser is the wide range of add-ons available. Below is a list of 3 great add-ons to use for those interested in monitoring search engine marketing efforts.

3 Great SEO Plug-ins for Firefox

NOTE: This is not a complete review or exhaustive list of Firefox add-ons for search engine marketers, please continue the conversation by sharing your favorite tools in the comments section right after this post.

Rank Checker

Aaron Wall and the folks over at SEOBook have done a great job with a handy little tool, Rank Checker. It sits right in the corner of Firefox, and has a simple interface, allowing you to quickly and easily get important information on search engine ranking for your given keywords and domains.

Consider these search engine marketing tips as you explore its capabilities:

• Ability to exclude Google personalization search results (this can throw off numbers if you typically logged into a Google account while searching)
• Presets gives you the ability to save your search query settings (keywords, and etc.) for fast loading in the future. Load them up, hit the start button and you are done, a big time saver.
• Scheduled Tasks gives you the ability to access your presets on a scheduled basis.
• Export export your results to CSV for further analysis and manipulation.

Get Rank Checker here.

Search Status

Need a quick view of indexed pages or back links? Look no further than Search Status.

At a glance of the status bar (or where you configure it to reside), you can see PageRank, Alexa, and Compete ranks, and with a two clicks, this add-on can tell you indexed pages or back links for each of the big 3 search engines.

It will also quickly highlight no-follow links.

Learn more and download Search Status here.

SEO Quake

For search engine marketers, this add-on is what it sounds to be. Very robust and functional on the fly feature set. As will all these tools it has some overlap with others mentioned here. What I find useful that I don’t yet see in the others, is the tie to Yahoo SiteExplorer and Google Blogsearch.

In addition, the flexibility of toolbar options is great. You can have the seobar, which hovers on page, or the seo toolbar which is a standard toolbar. In either case the tool bars can be configured to auto-populate search information (Alexa, Google indexed pages, etc.) when the page loads, or on request, which I like as it has minimal impact on performance.

Get SEO Quake here.

Firefox is a great browser and one of the advantages is the availability of plug-ins. These plug-ins are also easy to disable at any point if you find your browser gets too cluttered, or you don’t need them. For search engine marketers, whether you are interested in understanding how your site is optimized, or what the competition is doing, you can’t go wrong with any of these search engine optimization plug-ins for Firefox.

Continuing the Conversation: Are you using Firefox? If so have you used add-ons? Which add-ons do you like? Which add-ons or tools do you like for monitoring search engine optimization? Chime in using the comments box below.

*Image Credits to Channy Yun

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