SEO extensions for Chrome are convenient and necessary tools for SEO specialists. They allow you to get valuable information without having to open separate sites for SEO analysis. With the help of tools available in one click (and sometimes without any clicks at all!) you save precious time that can be spent on more serious tasks. They are just as useful as the SEO analytics tools, which we talked about a little earlier, so we recommend paying attention to them.
In our article, you will find a large selection of such extensions, which we have divided into subcategories for your convenience. Bookmark!
Extensions for analyzing internal site optimization
In the process of work, a specialist who has not yet discovered the Chrome extension for analyzing a site has to spend a lot of time determining its basic parameters (meta tags, canonical, hierarchy of headings on the page, and others). We offer you a choice of several plugins that will facilitate your work with analyzing internal optimization.
SEO META in 1 CLICK
A powerful tool that provides access to a huge amount of data, truly "in one click".
By clicking on the extension icon, you can find out:
- The URL of the page you are on;
- its meta tags (Title, Description, Keywords);
- Canonical;
- information from robots.txt that is relevant to this page;
- hierarchy of subheadings on the page;
- information about images (format, resolution, alt text, image URL)
- information about links (URL, anchor);
- Open Graph markup.
The extension also offers convenient redirection to other tools, for example, PageSpeed Insights for checking page loading speed. Overall, this is a compact, simple, but very informative plugin that definitely deserves your attention.
SEOInfo
This plugin will also tell you if there are any problems with internal optimization on the site. Like SEO META in 1 CLICK, it provides information about meta tags, structured data, and canonical pages. However, as a bonus to this plugin, you can connect the Pagespeed Insights API and get the necessary information right in the extension window.
Wappalyzer
Another multifunctional SEO extension for Chrome for internal site analysis and quick access to important information. Immediately after opening the page, by clicking on the plugin icon, you can find out:
- Site CMS;
- Web server;
- Installed analytics system;
- Frameworks used, programming language, JavaScript libraries, and other useful information about the technologies used to create the site.
Extensions for analyzing a website's link profile
Chrome extensions for analyzing a website allow you to learn a lot of interesting things about its internal optimization while you are directly on its pages. But there are plugins that significantly facilitate the work with external optimization and link building. Earlier in the blog we already told you what is link building and what you should focus on when building a link.
And here we offer you tools that are definitely worthy of taking a place in your toolbar.
Majestic Backlink Analyzer
A specialized service in Google Chrome for analyzing the link mass. It allows you to analyze competitors' backlinks while you are directly on their pages! All information is provided in the widget, you just need to click on the extension icon.
Link Redirect Trace
A plugin that, among other things, shows the current page response code and a chain of redirects, each link of which you can examine. A very useful tool that can be used for both internal and external site optimization.
Free Backlink Checker by LRT
A small but useful tool from the developers of the previous plugin that helps analyze all outbound links on a page. With this checker, you can quickly identify invalid links: all broken links are marked in red.
NoFollow Simple
A small but useful extension. It highlights all links with the nofollow tag on the page. Indispensable when selecting donors for backlinks.
Streak CRM for Gmail
A handy tool for link building, or more precisely, for conducting successful outreach campaigns. With it, you can send mass emails to potential donors and track the effectiveness of each such mailing.
Google Chrome plugins for searching for key phrases
SEO extensions for Google Chrome that help collect semantics not only make your work easier but also allow you to conduct in-depth research. Choose from several keyword analysis tools right on the page.
Keyword Surfer
It's incredible how much useful this completely free plugin has to offer! Let's take a quick look:
- estimates traffic at the domain level;
- estimates the volume of queries by keywords (in a specific country or worldwide);
- suggests different options for keyword phrases;
- shows the number of backlinks to the selected domain.
You can get all this data in the widget, as well as in the search bar.
SEOStack Keyword Tool
This plugin generates thousands of keyword phrase options, based on autocomplete suggestions from various search engines: Google, Bing, Yahoo and even YouTube. Like other site analysis plugins for Chrome, it works quickly and provides a huge amount of information without the need to go to specialized services. The resulting data can be downloaded in .csv format.
Keywords Everywhere
A useful extension that can analyze the frequency of occurrence of each keyword on the page. The tool analyzes literally the entire text part of the content on the page, even if it is commented, and gives you statistics on the number of occurrences of keywords, and their percentage, thanks to which you can quickly determine which key phrases your competitors are bidding on. Like many other SEO plugins for Chrome, Keywords Everywhere offers a convenient widget for work, and you can download the results in .csv or .pdf format.
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Other useful SEO extensions for Chrome in Google Chrome for searching for key phrases
We cannot single out these SEO plugins for Chrome into a separate category, since you can use them for a variety of needs.
Ahrefs SEO Toolbar
The toolbar from the tool popular among SEO specialists is a small but powerful analysis tool. With it, you can evaluate the main indicators of pages, for example, their domain rank and traffic directly in the search, without having to go to the Ahrevs website. In addition, the toolbar has a number of other useful features, for example, it can track redirects and highlight nofollow links on pages. This extension is very popular among those specialists who do SEO in the West — and we are no exception.
SEO Minion
Another cool little helper. It can analyze SEO parameters, find broken links, and emulate a given place in Google search. In addition, SEO Minion has a feature that is not available in other similar extensions - it provides the ability to compare search results for different countries.
SimilarWeb
This plugin provides information about the traffic coming to the site. Metrics include:
- traffic percentage (search, direct, referral, etc.);
- traffic per month;
- number of pages viewed per session;
- bounce rate;
- session duration;
- traffic geography;
- site position in global country rankings.
Go Back in Time
This small plugin is, in fact, a web archive that is always at hand. With its help, you can see in two clicks how a particular page looked in the past in Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines.
Conclusions
This is only a small part of the plugins that can help you in your work. However, even they are enough to increase comfort and save time. Installing metrics for site ranking and visits or a keyword search plugin in Chrome will allow you to delve into the details, and not get bogged down in a lot of unnecessary actions.
Which of these plugins do you use? Maybe we undeservedly left out one of your favorite plugins? Share in the comments!
