What’s more convenient than SEO tools within your Chrome browser?
SEO (search engine optimization) can help drive more organic traffic to your website by ranking your website higher during relevant queries in search engines (predominantly Google but others as well).
And SEO still very much matters. In fact, 68 percent of online experiences begin with a search engine.
While considering your own website’s SEO, consider the difference between on-page and off-page SEO.
Chrome extensions are tools built into your browser that help you work faster and smarter.
Put the two together, and you have the potential for a little SEO magic.
Not sure where to start? We’ve compiled a list of 22 Chrome extension recommendations that can help boost the SEO of your website.
SEO rank-checking extensions
SEO Search Simulator by Nightwatch
The SEO Search Simulator by Nightwatch extension emulates Google searches to check if a particular URL ranks in the top 100 results.
These Google searches can be done from any location so that you can see how the rankings vary in different parts of the world.
SERPTrends SEO Extension
The SERPTrends SEO Extension tracks your Google, Bing and Yahoo searches. Over time, as these queries are repeated, you’ll be shown trends and ranking movements directly in the search results.
Included in the data shown:
- Whether the website moved up or down in the search results
- When a website is ranking for the first time or hasn’t changed position
- How many positions the website lost or raised compared to the search you performed previously
SEOquake
SEOquake will give you a detailed overview of your website, including your Alexa rank, indexing information for Google and Bing, as well as your SEMrush rank.
The extension enables you to then dive deeper with a keyword-density report or overall diagnosis report, which breaks down on-page SEO elements on any given web page.
Keyword-research extensions
SEOStack Keyword Tool
SEOStack Keyword Tool is a Chrome extension that can help you generate thousands of keyword ideas from a single seed keyword. It does this by scraping autocomplete suggestions from:
- YouTube
- Bing
- Yahoo
- Amazon
- eBay
All the data generated can be exported to a CSV file.
Ubersuggest
The Ubersuggest Chrome extension shows you keywords’ monthly search volume, CPC and competition data. In addition, you can find related keywords and their information within search result pages on Google, YouTube and Amazon. You can then export data to a CSV file.
TextOptimizer
The TextOptimizer extension is a writing assistant that can help you write concise, high-quality and targeted content that is rich for your readers and optimized for search engines.
It does this by analyzing search results for relevant terms and extracts “intent tables” to recommend other words that you can use in your copy to better suit the expectations of search engines.
Keyword Surfer
The Keyword Surfer extension is a keyword research and search-engine-results-page (SERP) analysis tool. The data it offers includes (but is not limited to):
- Domain-level traffic estimations in Google Search results
- Keyword volumes (locally and globally)
- Keyword suggestions
- Domain-level backlink counts
You also can set up a content editor and start creating right away—researching, writing and optimizing—without ever leaving Google Search.
On-page SEO extensions
SEOInfo
SEOInfo runs an audit of your website pages, reporting on any SEO issues and allowing you to dig deeper. Specifically, the extension examines:
- Meta tags
- Canonicals
- Indexability
- Open Graph tags
- Structured data
- Page speed
- More
Free Backlink Checker by LRT
The Free Backlink Checker by LRT extension actually analyzes the outgoing links on a page (rather than any incoming links from other websites).
It will highlight any broken links red and any live links green. For further analysis, you also can export all links on a page to either a CSV or XLSX file in addition to their:
- Anchor text
- HTTP status
- The “rel” attribute
To prevent false positives caused by server protection, you can increase the time delay between link requests, slowing the page analysis.
Hreflang Tag Checker
The Hreflang Tag Checker automates the process of checking your website’s hreflang tag deployment. It takes a readout of the URL’s hreflang tags and then crawls them to assess if they back reference your current URL.
This extension supports a site’s language targeting and hreflang architecture, allowing you to get a fast and reliable impression of the status of your site’s optimisation for international organic search.
Technical-SEO extensions
Link Redirect Trace
Link Redirect Trace reveals all the URLs in a redirect chain, including 301s, 302s and JavaScript redirects. The extension is considered an all-in-one redirect path analyzer.
A typical backlink profile usually includes redirects from other websites, and this tool helps you check if your redirects are SEO-friendly or if they harm your website.
Google Lighthouse
Google Lighthouse audits your page and suggests improvements related to:
- Performance
- Accessibility
- Developer best practices
- SEO
The extension runs a barrage of tests against the page and then generates a report on how well the page did. You can then use any failing tests as indicators on what you can do to improve your page.
AMP Validator
The AMP Validator extension checks whether a page has an AMP (Accelerated Mobile Page) version. The page is then run through the validator, which reports if the page passes (green) or fails (red) via the extension icon.
OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer
The OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer discovers metadata embedded within HTML documents as Structured Data Islands and presents what’s discovered using a property sheet presentation style.
It simplifies the process of understanding what a given HTML document is about, via its metadata, for both end-users and developers.
View Rendered Source
See how the browser renders a page, not just what the server sends, with the View Rendered Source extension. This must-have tool for anyone working with JavaScript-powered websites compares the raw page code and its rendered version.
With this tool, you can see if JavaScript is overwriting meta tags, for example.
Link-building extensions
LinkClump
The LinkClump extension allows you to open, copy or bookmark multiple links at the same time. You can use it to drag a selection box around links using your mouse to quickly open as new tabs, open in a new window, save as bookmarks or copy to your clipboard.
This can be a great help during link prospecting.
Buzzsumo
The Buzzsumo extension can show you how many social media shares an article on another website has, as well as their backlinks. You also can see the most popular articles from that website (based on social media shares and backlink count).
SimilarWeb
The SimilarWeb extension enables you to see website traffic and key metrics for any website, including engagement rate, traffic ranking, keyword ranking and traffic source.
This is especially helpful for evaluating link opportunities.
Hunter
With the Hunter for Chrome extension, you can find who to contact when you visit a website.
Along with the email addresses, you can get the names, job titles, social networks and phone numbers. All the data has public sources detailed in the search results. This can help you contact the right people as you’re link building for your own website.
See our seven tips to grow quality backlinks and boost your SEO.
All-in-one SEO extensions
Ahrefs SEO Toolbar
The Ahrefs SEO Toolbar features an on-page SEO report, a redirect tracer, a broken link checker and a nofollowed link highlighter.
You’ll also get page, domain and keyword metrics for visited URLs and search results.
MozBar
The MozBar extension gives you instant metrics while viewing any page or SERP, including the ability to:
- Create custom searches by engine, country, region or city
- Quickly assess the page authority and domain authority of any site or page
- Access and compare link metrics across pages while viewing any SERP
- Find and highlight keywords on a page and differentiate links by type
- Expose page elements, general attributes, markup and HTTP status
- Export your SERP analysis details to a CSV file
SEO Minion
SEO Minion helps you in your daily SEO tasks, such as on-page SEO analysis, broken link checking, SERP preview and more.
In conclusion
While there is no perfect tool (or Google Chrome extension) to serve your SEO needs, it’s worth auditing what your prioritized needs are for your website’s SEO. Take the time to look through, identify your top candidates and experiment with the extensions that are most promising.
See more of the best, free SEO Chrome extensions.
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