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Top 10 Firefox Plugins for SEO - SEO Tutorials

Top 10 Firefox Plugins for SEO

Firefox is a great browser for SEOs and web developers. Due to the fact it is open source, many developers have written plugins and add-ons for the software to do a huge variety of tasks.

Here is my list of the top 10 plugins I use regularly:

1. Web Developer Toolbar - essential for web designers and developers
2. ColorZilla - great tool for getting hex and RGB numbers for colours from graphics
3. Google Toolbar - search Google web, images, news etc. Also gives link to cached page, and backward links
4. SEO for Firefox - from SEOBook, gives instant backlink data from a number of sources
5. IE Tab - embeds IE into Firefox, allowing for easy comparison of site designs between the two
6. SEOpen - useful backlink and pages indexed check, as well as server headers, robots.txt and whois lookup
7. Google Icon - simple plugin that adds favicons to Google results. It makes searching through the SERPs that little bit easier!
8. SearchStatus - another useful tool with backlink, Archive.org and whois checks
9. Professor X - displays a page's head information without viewing the source code
10. Screengrab - very useful tool for capturing whole pages as an image

Other useful plugins:

• HTML Validator - adds HTML validation to the browser
• ListZilla - another simple but useful tool, this one outputs all your plugins as HTML, allowing you to keep a backup (or indeed write interesting posts about all the plugins you have!)
• Live HTTP Headers - adds a "Headers" tab to the View Page Info menu
• Live PageRank - adds a little green bar to the bottom of your browser
• PDF Download - helps with PDF download management
• Sage - simple RSS and ATOM reader
• Server Spy - gives info about what type of server a site is hosted on
• Show IP - shows IP address of current page
• Lynx Viewer - shows what the current page would look like in Lynx, a text-mode browser