Gary Reid – Google SEO Specialist London UK

Having been an avid Firefox fan for a few years making the move to Google Chrome wasn’t instant. But, what prompted me to make the change was the really cool extensions you can now get. As my day job requires constantly checking sites having a browser that can instantly deliver the information I need is a real bonus.

So, I’ve put together a list of the top 10 SEO extensions for Google Chrome, some have similar functionality but all have at least one unique feature. If you want to get quick information about a site or page then these SEO tools will save you a lot of time.

1. SEO Site Tools

Probably the most comprehensive SEO extension for Chrome. It analyses the current page and breaks the data into 7 major areas

1. External Page Data: This includes indexed pages, PageRank, Alexa stats, SEOmoz Linkscape data, DMOZ data, Quantcast, Compete, Majestic SEO and SEMRush. Even down to the last Google index time.
2. Page Elements: Displays the meta tags, HTML and CSS validation, number of internal and external links that are followed, number of anchor tags, heading tags by type, server headers and server type.
3. Social Media: Facebook reaction, Reddit reactions, submissions to Digg, delicious bookmarks, Twitter stats including the latest Tweets.
4. Page Term Tool: This lets you extract keywords from the page and do some external tests, such as Google’s speed test
5. Server/Domain Info: This gives you location of the server and details of robots.txt and sitemap.xml. As well as whois data and contact details, useful if you want to contact a site for links.
6. Suggestions: A top-line list of basic SEO factors displayed in a traffic light system so you can quickly spot problems
7. Nofollow: A small checkbox in the bottom right that highlights ‘nofollow’ links on a page

This one tool is worth getting Chrome for, it’s quick and has some really great data.

SEO Site Tools

You can download the extension here.

2. Chrome Flags

This nifty little extension places a flag in the address bar showing the country where the server is located. A really handy yet simple extension to quickly identify geo-locations of websites

Chrome Flags SEO Extension

3. Chrome SEO

This extension has a very simple GUI and gives you some basic facts about a domain in an easy to view way, such as

• Indexed pages
• Backlinks
• Bookmarks

Although the data isn’t in-depth it’s a great way to get the basic stats.

Chrome SEO Extension

4. SEO SERP’s

A really quick and simple rank checker for many of the Google properties, insert a keyword and site and it checks the rank. You can input multiple domains to see which ranks best. Great for quick and simple checks.

SEO SERPS Chrome Extension Screencast on 12seconds.tv

You can download the extension here.

5. iPageRank

This shows the average PR passed by the links on a specific page when you hover over the extension button in the toolbar. Once clicked it analyses the keywords on a page and gives you the number of times each word is mentioned, if you then click one of the words in the list it gives suggestions for other keywords. Very handy little tool.

iPagerank SEO Extension for Google Chrome

6. SitezMeter

Great for a really quick snapshot of Google Trends, Alexa and Compete graphs for a domain.

SitezMeter Chrome SEO Extension

7. Site Information Tool

At first glance this tool does a lot of the same things a few of the others mentioned here do. When used it opens a new browser window to display the results. But, the two things it does that make it worth installing are;

• Gives the top ranking keywords for the domain on google, including position and volume, but also the PPC cost
• Gives a list of competitors by common keywords

For me this makes it worthwhile installing it even though it redirects to a webpage rather than being part of the browser.

Site Information Tool

8. SEO Professional Toolbar

This could be a really useful tool, in fact along with SEO Site Tools (1) probably my favourite. When you install it you can vists a site/page and hit the ‘record’ button, once done the extension does just that, it takes a snapshot of links and Pagerank at intervals you specify.

Over time you end up with a nice history of your PR and link stats.

SEO professional Toolbar for Chrome

9. Meta SEO Inspector

At first you’ll think this is quite an annoying extension as it has a pop up continually in the bottom right of the browser, but if you hit the button in the toolbar you can toggle this on or off.

A great and instant insight into a pages meta, yes it covers the usual suspects such as title, description and keywords but much more, for instance

• If it’s a Wordpress blog it shows the theme being used
• If Google or Yahoo webmaster tools code is on the site
• If the site has code, such as Google Analytics, Doubleclick and more
• If the page has XFN, hcard or other Microformats

A great tool, love it.

Meta SEO Inspector

10. You Tell Me

If you know of a great Chrome extension for SEO I’d love to hear about it, or if you are making one then even better.

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