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Best Firefox Addons for Webmasters


Firefox is said to be the

"Paradise for Webmasters"

And I do believe in that, not because I am a frequent user of Firefox and love the browser very much, but because of the functionality and the features Firefox provides are just mind blowing.


Firefox comes with such a vast list of addons for every user online, weather it be a programmer or a normal user there is something or the other for every one.


Here I am going to provide the list of the Best Firefox Addons for Webmasters. So, I go my list for the webmaster addons provided by firefox,


5 Best Firefox Addons for Webmasters

1) Google Tool Bar for Firefox
I would like to give the first credit in the list to the Google Tool Bar for Firefox. As we all know about the feature and the benefits Google Toolbar provides is just awesome. There are some worth mentioning like,
  • Google Toolbar Page Rank - A measure to value the relevancy of the webpage by providing it a Page Rank. It goes from 0 (least) to 10 (the maximum)
  • Cached Snapshot of the Page - which shows the date and time, along with the snapshot of the webpage, when last Google bot visited the site, and what all on the webpage was indexed.
  • Similar Pages - lists the pages similar to the website online.
  • Backward Links - is a measure of the websites linking to the particular website.
If you don't have one, then Download Google Toolbar

2) SEO Book Toolbar
I would like to give the SEO Toolbar the second preference of mine. It's very handy and comes up with a lot of SEO Tools which are very helpful in analyzing the website. Just to list some important ones,
  • Free Rank Checker - The free rank checker tool checks the rank of the multiple keywords for Google, Yahoo and MSN, and search for the top 20 pages result for the domains.
  • SEO X-Ray - Gives the X-ray report for the website for which you are looking for. It provides the Title, Description, Keywords and the Link analysis for a particular domain.
  • Google Page Rank
  • Links To Domains
  • Page Links
  • Directory Links
  • Site Age
  • Monthly Uniques
  • Est Traffic Value
Not tried it yet, trust me you won't regret Download SEO Toolbar

3) Greasemonkey
I personally like this addon in firefox. It helps to get the numbered Google Search results along with MSN. It helps to customize the webpage. Believe me it's very helpful while analyzing the website.

Download Greasemonkey Firefox Addon

4) Search Status
Search Status is another wonderful addon for firefox. It helps webmasters to analyze various aspects of a website. To list them
  • Google Pagerank
  • Alexa Rank
  • Compete Ranking
  • Link Report
  • Meta Tags
  • Robots.Txt
  • Archive
  • Whois
  • Sitemap.xml
  • Seomoz Linkscape Mozrank Anywhere In Your Browser
  • Keyword Density Analyser
  • Keyword/Nofollow Highlighting
  • Backward/Related Links
where every feature has it's specific use in Search Engine Optimization

Download Search Status Firefox Addon

5) Web Developer
This addon provides adds a menu and a various web developer tools.

Downlaod Web Devloper Firefox Addon

These addons and many many more addons make Firefox so useful to the webmasters, developers and to users.

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I would also like to introduce one more very useful addon for Firefox, which is very beneficial for webmasters,

OY-OY Search Engine Tools for Firefox
This add has extremely all the functionality required by the webmaster to do the analysis of the website. You can have a look at these,

Google
o Backlinks (link:-query)
o Backlinks count per datacenter
o Cached page
o Cache date of the page per datacenter
o Indexed pages (site:-query)
o Indexed page count (per datacenter)
o Pages in the supplemental index
o Pages in the supplemental index (per DC)
o Related pages (related:-query)
o Translation (translate:-query)
o PageRank check
o PageRank check per DC
o Check for faked PageRank (via SEOlogs.com)
o Redirect through google.com (check for hacked sites acting upon google.com referrers)

* Yahoo!
o Backlinks (link:-query)
o Indexed pages (site:-query)
o Domain-wide Backlinks (linkdomain:-query)
o Secret Site Information
o Indexed pages (via Site-Explorer)
o Backlinks (via Site-Explorer)

* MSN/Live.com
o Backlinks (link:-query)
o Indexed pages (site:-query)
o Domain-wide Backlinks (linkdomain:-query)
o Domain-wide outbound links (linkfromdomain:-query)

* Alexa
o Overview
o Traffic
o Related sites
o Links

* Mass-Check

o Backlinks (Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live)
o Indexed pages (Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live)
o Domain-wide backlinks (Yahoo, MSN/Live)

* Page-Information
o Analyze links on page
o Keyword Density
o Spider Simulator
o Page title and headers
o Server response headers
o Page availability (via watchmouse.com)
o Page uniqueness (via Yahoo/oy-oy.eu)

* Site-Information
o robots.txt
o Check DMOZ
o eKstreme Deep-Link Ratio
o Archive.org / Way-Back-Machine
o Domain WHOIS lookup (via domaintools.com)
o Server Reverse-IP lookup - which sites on the same server (via SEOlogs.com)
o Server Reverse-IP lookup - which sites on the same server (via domaintools.com)
o Server Geo-Location lookup (via maxmind.com)
o Update Server data (via netcraft.com)
o DNS Report (via dnsstuff.com)
o DNS Timing (via dnsstuff.com)
o DNS Traversal (via dnsstuff.com)
o Server ping (via just-ping.com)

* Other functions
o Spell-Check (english, german, spanish, french, italian)
o Geotargeted Google Search

Don't have OY OY Search Engine Tools Addon for Firefox, download one for yourself.


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Comments

Thanks, great tips!
I use search status a lot too - and SEOQuake just rocks, this is a real SEO powerhouse. Na, scratch that - it's a mini-nuclear SEO reactor in your browser! for those who don't know it yet, they can download it here:
http://www.seoquake.com/
Admin said…
Yes indeed. There is another most important tool for webmasters, it consists of almost everything as required for SEO.

It is OY - OY Search Engine Tools, Check it out here http://oyoy.eu/firefox/se/
TrackingGuru said…
Useful Information for webmasters..

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