9 SEO FireFox Plugins I Can’t Live Without

Before I start, here is an overview of what I am going to talk about:

Plugin	Most useful feature	How often I use it
SEOQuake	Any page instant SEO analysis	A few times a day
SearchStatus	Google, Alexa, Compete Rank Toolbar	Multiple times a day
Google toolbar	Google search and suggestions	Multiple times a day
Rank Checker button	Instantly checks a site SE rankings	Once a week
User Agent Switcher	Change the user agent	Once a month
SEO for FireFox	Exhaustive SEO analysis within search results	A few times a day
Compete.com	Site traffic information	Once a week
Web Developer	Instant access to image and link information	Once a day
Page Age	Get the page age	Once a day

1. SEOQuake.

Most useful features:

• Get instant access to any information about the page you have opened: Google index, Yahoo! backlinks, Alexa Rank, archive age, Del.icio.us mentions, subpages, source, Whois, keyword density and many more.
• Integrate all the above data in your Google, Yahoo and MSN search results page. Sort the results by any of the parameters.

• Fully customizable: add/exclude any of the parameters; make the tool work faster by showing all the info only by request; add your own features.

2. SearchStatus
Most useful features:

• Google PageRank, Alexa Rank and Compete.com Rank toolbars for every page you visit.
• Highlight nofollow links, access any page matatags with one click, view the link report and robots.txt info.

3. Google toolbar
Most useful features:

• Search Google and see your search history and Google suggestions;
• Access your mail with one click.

4. SEOMoz Rank Checker button – allows you to check rankings of any page by one click (the tool was also described here).
5. User Agent Switcher – check your website with the user agent being Googlebot, for example.

6. SEO for FireFox:
Most useful features:

• an exhaustive SEO report on each page integrated within your search results page: Google PR, Google cache date, age, Del.icio.us mentions, Y! links, Y! .edu links, Y! .gov links, Y! page links, Compete.com Rank, Compete.com uniques, number of cached pages, Dmoz/Yahoo directory/Botw presence, Whois;
• an instant access to other great SEO research tools: keyword research, GoogleAdwords tool, traffic estimator, Google trends;
• export to CSV function.

7. Compete.com toolbar – the one I don’t use too often but I like the site profile feature.

8. Web Developer plugin has plenty of great features; I will mention only those I use most often.
Most useful features:

• shows image Alt text;
• Java disable option;
• shows image and link titles.

9. Page Age shows age for the page you are located at.


Resource Page : http://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-firefox-plugins/6564/