Firefox is an excellent tool for SEO, especially if you know how to use it better. I can’t imagine blogging without it on daily basis, though there was a time when I stopped using it due to the fact it is becoming slower everyday because of too much addons. But, immediately when Mozilla released its latest version, Mozilla Firefox 8, I changed my mind about it and started using it again because that one comes with useful benefits.
Apart from the fact that Firefox is becoming slower everyday before the new release, I can’t do without firefox browser because I used it for my blog administration and some other things which can’t be done with Google Chrome, due to javascript and some other problems.
One thing that makes me love Firefox better than other browser is because of the add-on and extensions that I can use with it which makes it more preferrable to the other browsers. For an SEO firm, it would be nice if you consider firefox SEO extension addons as one of the best tool you can use for your blog to rank well and to track changes and development on the blog you’re taking care of. So, here are the awesome and powerful Mozilla Firefox SEO Extensions you should consider downloading and installing to your browser as a blogger or someone who engages in SEO work.
User Agent Switcher
User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox allows user to visit different websites on the internet exactly as a Googlebot – this will help you know exactly how Googlebot see your blog or website so that you can change any error or mistakes that can cause your blog to be misrepresented. It is a perfect way for any website admin to check his or her website’s search engine cloaking info.
HTML Validator Extension (with HTML Tidy)
The HTML Validator firefox extension help you know what and what is not right on any page you are visiting on your web pages. This extension will help you in seeing HTML errors whenever you press CTRL+U to view the source of a page, and allow you to quickly know the areas in the source page that might present problems to search engines when bots are trying to crawl your blog.
Show IP Firefox Extension
What do you need to know about the website you are visiting? Is it the IP address or what? If it is an IP address, then using the mozilla firefox extension called show IP will help displays the IP address of any websites right in the status bar of your browser.
Web Developer Toolbar
The Web Developer Toolbar is powerful extension that has many essential features that will be useful for both Website development and Search Engine Optimization. This extension will let you manage cache, referrers, JavaScript, CSS, cookies, and much more. For example, you can choose to disable CSS on website page by just pressing the Ctrl-Shift-S keyboard button. As well, you can disable cookies to see for yourself how a website behaves without cookies turned on and when it is turn on. You can also choose to show the alt attribute text attribute of a page.
Search Status Firefox Extension
The Firefox Search Status extension shows you as the computer user the current Google PageRank of the site you are visiting in the status bar. Apart from that alone, you can also check the rel=nofollow attribute links on any pages you visited.
NoScript
NoScript Firefox extension will help you turn off JavaScript from your website for all the pages you visit by default and also allow you override that same setting on a site-by-site basis. Since we all know that search engines bots don’t surf website with JavaScript enabled, you can get a perfect idea of how your website sites look to search engines bots when you have JavaScript turned off. It is perfect extension for any serious webmaster to have, I highly recommended it that you install it. Image shown below is an example of a website that wants to redirect visitors to another page with javascript, but the extension blocked that action.
Customize Google
Use the Customize Google firefox extension to puts links to other popular search engines you want to be using on the Google SERPs so that when you’re searching for information, you can easily switch from one search engine to another such as MSN, Bing and others from the Google SERPs page.
ScreenGrab
Right from your browser page, take awesome screenshots of the web pages you’re browsing through without hassle. Make use of the Screengrab extension to perform tasks such as that. This extension will lets you capture the full page of a browser page or a specified width.
Firefox Profiles
Firefox profile is the perfect way to manage different extension profiles on ones computer without stress. You can setup different profiles for each extensions on your browser while you can as well set another one for the general browsing.
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these extensions are great. I am a big lover of firefox so these will helpful for me. thanks for the awesome post mate.
Thanks for your comment. It helps me keep going stronger 🙂
Great to know about these latest ad ons. Thank you very much Ola.
Now i m clear with the port details thanks for you to make this clear!! Once again thanks. As a business firm i have to learn lot more from this post!!!
I am using searchstatus and Firefox profiles both are amazing with great features.
I’ve been a user of both also… all of these work great. Helps to really have this information so quickly and readily available.
I agree,that Firefox has manage different profile but i think its only in old version.And i have search more for that in google.
I think SEO Toolbar by SEOBook is another great extension, lots of handy SEO data can be attracted easily.
Thanks for the useful list. The screengrab extension seems useful and I have got it installed.
That’s great. You are welcome here buddy 🙂
Firefox is a great browser. Once you have the right plugins installed, you’re good to go with SEO. It also seems to be the most stable among the browsers around.
I agree that this tool would be a great help for a certain SEO services. Thanks a lot for the tips.
I am using the latest firefox .thanks
I used to use firefox but like you said it became very slow so i moved over to chrome. Perhaps its worth a revisit
firefox rocks no browser replace firefox in future thanks for this plugin list.
I am new to the field of SEO and your tips helps me a lot. I am going to cross check all these and start doing my work.
thanks for sharing.
Thanks for this informative post..
The extensions sounds great. I use both Firefox and Chrome and was leaning more towards Chrome but now after reading about these extensions, I’m feeling more drawn to Firefox, there’s really nothing like old Firefox. Some of these extensions will be of great help for me.
That is great Santa
Good extensions. I am dependent on Firefox
Thanks for sharing the information with us
it is very useful information for SEO expert. Thanks for provide latest information about latest browser.
Firefox becomes more faster now days
Firefox works faster now days
Firefox extensions are always the best goldmine for continuous productivity,not only SEO work,but all kind of work you do on PC and online ,may be assisted by firefox add-ons or extensions
I agree that Firefox 8 is great.
Yeah! Firefox is the best web browser. It has all the SEO tools that I need for my work.
Very useful information for SEO expert. Thanks
I admit that this tools could be very useful for seo per-pas. apart from it also i gonna collect huge valuable info thanks for spreading it.
very nice information….Thanks for it 🙂
Very informative article here bro, i will get it installed sharp sharp, thanks for sharing….
A lot of Firefox extensions are found to be helpful for those in the SEO industry. These add-ons can also help individuals with certain daily tasks. Students, entrepreneurs, professors, almost everyone can benefit from these!
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I just found this post. I knew about most of these, but found a few new gems that I hadn’t used before. Thank you for the insight!