All the Chrome extensions for SEO you'll ever need? - Smart Insights Digital Marketing Advice

Like many I’ve switched to Chrome as my main browser this year for the speed and stability.

If you haven’t made the switch yet, there’s almost nothing to stop you now although I’m still missing the SEO Book plug-ins for Firefox, although SEO Quake is an adequate competitor.

I’ve found great interest in these new tools on my Advanced SEO course, so “due to popular demand” I’ve created a page of the ones I recommend. I’ve started with the simplest ones which marketers on the course might use, onto the more advanced ones for the SEOs.

1. PageRank Status

A simple tool for showing Google PageRank.

2. Nofollow checker

You probably don’t need this one if you have some of the other tools like SEO Quake.

3. Web Developer Toolbar – Chris Pederick

Chris developed the excellent developer toolbar for Firefox. The main value of this for SEO is checking for semantic markup of <h1>,<h2>,<h3> – through reviewing many site I find that developers love to plaster containers in sidebars with <Hx> failing to highlight the content that matters to Google. Also strips images and gives easy access to CSS.

4. SEOQuake

The best substitute for SEO Book Firefox tools? Overlays page backlink performance in the Google SERPs and adds a toolbar showing link profile for each site.

5. Chrome SEO

A different style of tool to the others with a useful panel giving access to other tools. If you prefer bookmarklets Dave Naylor’s SEO Playground is a good alternative.

6. SEO Site Tools

A complete Swiss Army Knife toolkit including many of the features above. The most valuable feature IMO is it’s integration with Google Webmaster Tools, Y! Site Explorer and Google Analytics where it overlays the power of links pulling data from SEOMoz via their API. Also overlays social bookmarking and sharing for a page in GA. Awesome!

Please tell me what I’m missing that I can’t get from all the above!

http://www.smartdogdigital.com Illiya Vjestica

Hi Dave,

I’ve just started using Chrome and was wondering what the best SEO plugins are for it. Thanks for putting this resources together, it has been very useful.
Illiya
Dave Chaffey

No problem Illiya – it’s been something I’ve been meaning to do for months – always good to share!
http://digitalytics.blogspot.com Lawrence

Hi Dave,

Great post! I wrote something similar a couple of months back looking at SEO and analytics extensions, so there’s a bit of overlap, but there some other extensions in there too that you may want to investigate.

Lawrence
http://www.moonklash.com Stuart Clark

Nice to see the best SEO tools in one place! I’m still a Firefox user at the moment but that may change. A lot of my favourite extensions have made it to chrome which will help ease the transition should I make the switch.

Dave Chaffey

Thanks @Stuart – yes I delayed for a while because of lack of support for SEO tools, but won’t be going back.

http://www.yellowzombie.co.uk Mark Bonnett

I like Dave Naylor’s SEO Playground tool, available for both Firefox and Chrome

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/idogpjlggcpcjnglglhgcdcdncfofkhl?hl=en