Top SEO Firefox Add-On Musts
The problem with SEO is that it is extremely time consuming. There are so many different variations and aspects of SEO that you have to take into consideration. Like if you are redoing a site, you have to worry about forwarding the pages so Google doesn’t get pist off. Or if you are creating a Title, where to put the words to best optimize. How many times you say a certain word because if it’s too little then Google may not think it is important enough, but if you use the word is too much of your content then google will think you are keyword stuffing. When building links to make sure that the site has a good Ranking and that the link is not a no follow link. I can go on for hours the amount of different things you have to worry about when doing Search Engine Optimization, but the point is as long as you are doing SEO for the right reasons, then you will be fine.
What do I mean by that? Well, a long time ago, before this entire Google scandal (If I may?) started to occur where people were trying to just get on the “top” of Google, website owners use to post links to actually get GOOD and USEFUL traffic to their website. For instance, they would post a link that was relevant to them so they could get traffic that would be interested in what their site was about. Now a days I see people who own a clothing store posting on someone who owns an ice cream shop because they think it’s relevant enough just to get a link. They don’t care who they get to their site at that point as long as their traffic number goes up. Well I personally don’t believe that’s the correct way to do SEO and that’s not how I get SEO. My goal is to increase my clients revenue, not just increase their rankings for their keywords.
Anyway, so since there is so much out there where do we find all this information? There are so many firefox add-on’s that I recently started to use that are very useful.
- Web Developer – This is an awesome tool because it helps you when you code. Since it’s best to code in DIV’s and it can sometimes be a little more tricky this is an awesome tool to help you code your sites correctly. It also allows you to do a bunch of other things, like disable javascript, css, etc. This tool doesn’t exactly affect SEO directly, but it will help make your page more user friendly for your users. It’s also my favorite tool
- SEO for Firefox – This handy tool is inline with both Google and Yahoo, which is really cool. It allows you to see the Google Search in an entire new light. When you search, now below all the websites you will see a bunch more information about the site such as Rank, Links, If they are on Twitter, If they are in the top directories like yahoo dir and dmoz, etc. Perfect way to find out what your competitors have over you. The only issue with this add on is that you have to make sure you shut it off when you are not using it. Otherwise, you can get penalized because they will think you are trying to draw to much information to quickly. This could potentially cause them to stop sending information to you. So just be careful, but otherwise great tool.
- Search Status – Handy little tool that is at the bottom of your page. It tells you the websites PageRank, Alexa Rankings, inbound links, pages index, etc. It also lets you see robots.txt, keywords, and their sitemap. Again, all these items you can obviously get yourself by going to the URL, but these tools are very good to quicken the process and find the tools needed to gain better ranks quicker. It’s a very cool tool to quickly find out the answers.
- Link Checker – This tool is awesome. In your tools drop down there is a link that says “Check Page Links”. You click that button while on the page you want to check the links for and it will go through check all the links and put green marks on the links that are not broken and put a red box over the links that are broken. Very handy tool for SEO because one of the things google looks at are broken links. If you have to many broken links google may penalize you for it.
There are many other add ons and SEO tools you can use to help ease the pressure. There are so many things you have to do, that sometimes it can get very tedious and cumbersome. These tools are quick, easy, and efficient ways to get the same exact job done. Why bust your hump to get these answers when they can just be given to you?
Tags: Firefox, Firefox Add ons, Link Checker, Search Engine Optimization, Search Status, SEO, SEO for Firefox, Web Design, Web Developer
