The science of Search Engine Optimization has increasingly starting to look like an art form, thanks to its daily shapeshifting. This doesn’t surprise much, seeing that the internet is living a life of its own and it looks like the humans need to catch up with it constantly. This is why SEO experts and all who want to become one need all the help they can get, and this is where various browser extensions come into play. Here are some of the most efficient and generally useful gadgets to help you climb your way to SEO heights.
Here are some of the most efficient and generally useful gadgets to help you climb your way to SEO heights.
1. SEO Site Tools
This tool will very quickly become your base for understanding SEO of your website(s) because it offers information which is vital for further improvement of your SEO work. This extension is divided into six interest sections that include Social Media, External Page Data, Server and Domain Info and a few other useful features like following the trend of your data in Google webmaster tools. This is definitely one of the Chrome extensions that you will benefit from greatly.
2. Page Speed Insights
The loading time of your website can easily make or break both your ranking and your website visits. This is why it’s important to keep your server’s response in an optimal condition and this tool is very useful in this domain. Google’s Page Speed Insights will not only find and isolate issues that cause your loading time to be slower, but it will also provide you with steps you can take to overcome them. This extension is easy to use and it will easily become indispensable.
3. MozBar
This is another tool that is much praised among SEO internet images, and for all good reasons. If you take a look at what it has to offer – comprehensible SEO metrics, understanding of the ranking difficulties you might encounter for a certain keyword, complete view of social media metrics, it’s not hard to understand why this extension has a good reputation in its niche.
4. Page Analytics by Google
This extension bodes well for everyone looking for some insight into the behavior and tendencies of their users. This tool will enable you to find out how exactly your customers/users are behaving on your website, as well as what catches their attention the most. You get precise data about how many active users are currently on the website, the number of (unique) page views, as well as that are most clicked areas on your website, so that you can optimize them even more.
5. URL Shortener
Here you can pretty much see everything in the title. Shortening URLs can be exceedingly helpful, and will save you a lot of time. After you’ve used this Chrome extension, you can integrate shortened URLs with your social media channels and pretty much anything else that comes to your mind.
6. Majestic Backlink Analyzer
Even though it has a slightly overbearing name, this tool will do plenty for your backlink intel. You can never give too much attention to backlinks and their state, whether on your own website or even your competitor’s site. A significant perk of this tool is that it has its own metrics, so it doesn’t depend on third-party information. Metrics that you have at your disposal (if you become a paying member) are anchor text, backlinks, and summary.
7. Note AnyWhere
This is a particularly nifty extension for all of us that have a lot of information on our mind and something inadvertently slips through the cracks. What this tool does is allow you to leave your notes and reminders on any site, and every next time you open that website, your notes will pop up as well. Incredibly useful and very easy to use.
8. Ninja Outreach Lite
Ninja Outreach Lite is dedicated to probably the most important branch of SEO – link building and outreach. You will find over four million influencers that you can get in touch with Ninja database. Thanks to this tool, you’ll easily gather information about people that are most influential in your niche, and you’ll get access to all the crucial details you need to know about these people.
9. IE Tab
This is a tool widely used by many web developers because it offers a clear insight into how a website looks like and performs through the “eyes” of Internet Explorer rendering engine. This extension is also good for checking ranking, as well as loading page speed. If you are looking for even more privacy and new ways to take a closer, anonymous look at how you and your competitors’ websites look like, then pure VPN will give you some basic information about using VPN as a very productive resource for your SEO work.
10. SEO SERP
With this extension, a simple approach will get you far. In case you have the need to check your website’s ranking for a certain keyword, you can do so simply through this tool. SEO SERP will give you a clear list of websites for whatever keyword you enter, and you’ll know exactly where you stand.
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Adam Ferraresi’s biggest passions in life are everything concerning the World Wide Web and writing. This 23-year-old web developer is stationed in Dallas, TX where he spends his time working and often writing interesting articles for wefollowtech.com. Besides being a tech aficionado, Adam spends his free time listening to music and playing basketball.
