Top 5 Firefox extensions for SEO

There are many tools available to help you keep track of your page rank and monitor your SEO but some of the best are only available through the Firefox web browser.

Here is a quick top 5 list of some of the best tools that we have found.

1.  Foxy SEO Tool by McNulty

SEO Tool offers tools for search engine optimization (SEO), web traffic and page analysis for webmasters and web professionals.

2.  Firefox Rank Checker by SEO Book

This free rank checking tool allows you to check your rankings in Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live search results.

3.  KGen by nfroidure

KGen (Keyword Generator) is an extension that allows you to see what keywords are strong on visited web pages. Than, you can retrieve them for social sharing (tag filling) or web mastering/SEO.

4.  SEO For Firefox by SEO Book

Pulls useful market research data right into Google’s and Yahoo!’s search results, including the following data near each search result.

• PR: (Google PageRank) an estimated measure of global link authority
• Age: age pulled from Archive.org, shows the first time a page was indexed by Archive.org’s spider. The theory is that if Archive.org found a page so did many of the major search engines.
• Links: (Yahoo! linkdomain) shows a rough estimate of the total number of links pointing at a domain
• .edu Link: (Yahoo! .edu linkdomain ) shows a rough estimate of the total number of .edu links pointing at a domain
• .edu Page Link: (Yahoo! .edu link ) shows a rough estimate of the total number of .edu links pointing at a specific page
• .gov Link: (Yahoo! .gov linkdomain ) shows a rough estimate of the total number of .gov links pointing at a domain
• Page Links: (Yahoo! link) shows a rough estimate of the total number of links pointing at a page
• del.icio.us: number of times a URL has been bookmarked on Del.icio.us. Heavily skewed toward techy / Web 2.0 stuff.
• Technorati: an estimate of the total number of links to a site from blogs
• Alexa: rank based on website traffic . Heavily skewed toward internet marketing and webmaster related resources.
• Cached: (Google site:) shows how many pages from a site are indexed in Google
• dmoz: searches the Google Directory to count the total number of pages from a site that are listed in DMOZ, and the total number of pages listed in DMOZ that reference that URL.
• Bloglines: shows you how many people are subscribed to a particular blog via Bloglines.
• dir.yahoo.com: is a site listed in the Yahoo! Directory or not.
• WhoIs: makes it easy to look up the whois data for any site.

5.  SEO Toolbar by SEO Book

As you surf the web the SEO Toolbar pulls useful market research data right into your browser.

We use all of the tools mentioned above and recommend that you use them as well. This will help you keep track of your page rank for the keywords that you have provided us.