Top 10 Firefox Add-ons I cannot live without

POSTED BY admin on Jun 17 under Blogging Tips, Link Popularity, Social Network, Traffic building

There are hundreds of extensions available on Firefox, but I’m including only those extensions that I find useful as a Seo blogger. And if you don’t have Firefox, you can download it from Mozilla Firefox official site for free.

Google Toolbar - Google Toolbar for Firefox gives you many facilities including:
- Google Search Box
- Access your G-mail account with a click
- Google News with single Click
- Google Page Rank
- Google Cached Snapshot of the page
- Back links for a webpage on Google
- Spell Checking on a form you filled in
- Language Translator
- Youtube Search
- Weather Report
- Google Map
- Search History
- Google Suggestions
SearchStatus 1.25 - SearchStatus extension shows the following information about a page in our Status bar
- Google Page Rank
- Alexa Ranking
- Compete Ranking
- Meta Tags
- Keywords Density
- Highlight Keywords
- Shows Whois Infomation
- Robot.txt file
- Index pages on Google, Yahoo & MSN
- Back links in Google, Yahoo & MSN
Check page Links - LinkChecker 0.6.2 was developed by Kevin Freitas and is still working on it to improve it further. LinkChecker is the best tool available today to find the broken or dead link on a webpage.
Seo for Firefox - Aaron Wall from SeoBook.com has created a great tool for seo and internet marketing experts. This seo tool for firefox from Aaron have lots of valuable features including:
- Google Page Rank
- Google Last cached Date
- Domain age
- Links from Del.icio.us
- Yahoo Links
- Links from .edu sites
- .gov links
- Yahoo links for a particular page
- Edu links for a specific page
- Technorati shows links for a domain from blogs
- Alexa Ranking for a site
- No of Cached pages in Google
- Supplemental Results
- No of links from Dmoz open directory Project
- Bloglines links
- Links from Wikipedia
- No of links from Yahoo Directory
- Whois information
Web Developer 1.1.6 - has lots of useful features useful for web developer and a seo. Some of Web developer features includes:
- Cookies information
- Javascript and Java disable
- CSS view
- Form details on a webpage
- Image attributes
- Outline Frames, links, headings, Tables
- Window Resize options
- Page View Source
User Agent Switcher - User agent is a great extension that allows you to check a website like a Googlebot. Typical use of this agent switcher is allowing access to websites that restrict access based on the browser being used.
FireFTP 0.97.3 - is a free and secure client FTP from Firefox which gives easy access to FTP servers. With file uploading and downloading, we can do directory comparison, Filtering, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing with Fireftp.
ShowIP address - ShowIP extension gives us the IP address of a website in our Status Bar like shown below. This is particularly useful when we need to check if multiple websites are hosted on the same IP. Right Clicking on the ShowIP icon in our Status bar will display Whois information with other stuff.
Live HTTP Headers - This extension from Firefox enables us to view the HTTP header sent during page load. This is really useful for developers and Seo’s to check 301, 302 redirect or 404 errors during page load.
CustomizeGoogle -
Customize Google Extension allows us to make the same search that we made on Google on other search engines like Yahoo, Ask, AlltheWeb, Live, Lycos, Technorati, Wikipedia, Bloglines etc.

Which Firefox extensions are your favorite?

Popularity: 13% [?]

If you would like to make a comment, please fill out the form below.

5 Comments so far

vicy June 19, 2008 11:59 pm

Visiting here today..Stay happy!!
Mo June 21, 2008 7:57 am

Firefox rules. Thanks for sharing your top ten add-ons.
shelby wallace July 14, 2008 10:32 am

Yet again I find another post of yours that I need! You have an incredible site! Thank you!
The Practical Website Development Resource December 7, 2008 6:53 pm

hi,

do you know an extension that displays yahoo and msn traffic rank like what google pagerank, and alexa do?
admin December 7, 2008 8:27 pm

Hi

I know a Firefox ad-on which shows website/websites ranking for up to 100 keywords at a time on Google, Yahoo and MSN. This Ad-on is offered by Seobook.com and one can check it at http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/