June 1, 2010 in Blog by Rep Management Firm .COM

20 SEO plugins for Google Chrome part 1

As the latest statistics shows Google Chrome is becoming more and more popular. And indeed, this browser is fast, minimalistic and has some unique style that attracts people. In addition it already has a great variety of extensions available for a free download and this amount grows on a daily basis. So today we are going to review the extensions that primarily will be useful for webmasters and search engine optimization (SEO) specialists. We would like to mention that it doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to install all the extensions mentioned below. You can just try them out and choose the ones that suit your needs and preferences the most for your everyday SEO tasks. Taking into consideration that posting all 20 extensions with descriptions would make this article extremely long and not quite easy to read we decided to divide it in two parts.

So here is the first 10 of the best 20 SEO extensions for Google Chrome:

1. SeoQuake – in our opinion this is one of the best SEO related extensions for Google Chrome. This extension is able to show lots of SEO parameters like Google PageRank (PR), Alexa rank, external links at Yahoo and much more information. But most important SeoQuake integrates seamlessly and displaying all this information right in the search results. Download SeoQuake.

2. SeoQuake Lite – if you need the lite version of the above extension then SeoQuake Lite is definitely your choice. This extension shows only the most important information about the webpage like Google PageRank and Alexa Rank. SeoQuake Lite is very similar to SearchStatus extension for Firefox but it works on Google Chrome only. Download SeoQuake Lite.

3. Chrome SEO – this extension is truly considered one of the best. It has really great potential and functional abilities in terms of SEO optimization: competition analysis, keywords analysis tool, external links analysis, Google PageRank, the number of indexed pages, visitors’ overview, NoFollow links highlighter and many more. As per the latest research – more than 100 000 webmasters and SEO specialists all over the world are using Chrome SEO extension on a daily basis. This extension works with such sources like Archive.org, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, CoralCDN, Ask, Baidu, Bing, Delicious, Digg, Dmoz, Google PageRank, MajesticSEO, Open Site Explorer, Quantcast, SEMRush, SEOmoz, Linkscape, StumbleUpon, Technorati, WebCite, Yandex Quotation Index, Yahoo. You can download Chrome SEO extension here.

4. SEO Site Tools – another great extension for Google Chrome. Here are some of the functional abilities of this extension: social services counter, counter for search results in Yahoo, Bing and Google.  SEO Site Tools extension works with Google Analytics and other statistics services. In addition this extension can display on page elements like Metatags, H1 tags, text links, nofollow attribute and other ‘source code’ related information. You can download SEO Site Tools here.

5. SEO Status Pagerank/Alexa Toolbar – this is yet small but functional Google Chrome extension for your day-to-day SEO needs. This extension is capable of displaying Google PageRank and Alexa Rank for any page. And if you click the plugin button then you will see the visitors’ statistics for any website based on Alexa data. Download your copy of this extension here.

6. META SEO inspector –  this Google Chrome extension will be perfect for those webmasters who would like to quickly analyze the relevancy of the metatags towards the page content, their optimization rank and if they match Google requirements. In addition META SEO inspector extension will show you a warning message if any metatag info is absent. Download META SEO inspector.

7. SEO & Website Analysis – this extension will be extremely useful if you would like to run an advanced analysis for the website. SEO & Website Analysis extension for Google Chrome allows you to work with more than 50 different parameters. This extension has such features like: website traffic prediction, display amount of indexed pages in Google and Yahoo, keywords analysis, robots.txt file analysis, WHOIS information and many others. Despite of its huge functional abilities SEO & Website Analysis extension is absolutely free to download and use. Above all, it even allows you to create reports in PDF format. You can download extension here.

8. WebRank SEO – this extension allows checking the following parameters: Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, Quantcast Rank, website’s indexed pages, amount of indexed pages in various search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. Webrank SEO extension would work great not only for the SEO analysis but also for the certain website analysis and the competition research in general. Using this extension you will be able to review the competitors’ websites in just one click. In addition WebRank SEO has the ability to shorten the links and share those using popular social services. Click here to download this extension.

9. SEO SERP – this extension provides you with a simple way to check website’s position for the selected search query in various countries. The list of supported countries is as follows: Brazil, India, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Holland, Ireland, Russia, China, Poland, Salvador, Australia, Canada and the entire .com zone in general. Download SEO SERP extension for Google Chrome here.

10. iPageRank – this extension among all other SEO features has a very interesting one. iPageRank can display how much PageRank will be forwarded to your website through the dofollow link at any page. In addition it shows the general information about internal and external links on the page and how many of them don’t have nofollow attribute. iPageRank extension can make a query based on PR to various Google servers which allows to display this parameter in a longer time-frame. You can download this extension by clicking here.