12 Must have SEO Chrome Extensions for every SEO expert

Chrome is world’s most used desktop web browser with 65% market share. In 2008, Google launched its web browser named Google Chrome for platforms Linux, macOS, iOS and Android. Chrome allows you to add additional functionality with the help of chrome extension. Chrome web store have 188,620 extensions so far.

1.      gInfinity

Google displays 10 organic results on one page. Being SEO experts we need to check SERP for different results. With gInfinity, you can keep scrolling the results. Once the page finishes gInfinity shows next 20 results without you clicking on next page. This extension really make life easier for SEO experts.

2.      SimilarWeb

Need competitive analysis for any of your competitor’s website? Get SimilarWeb chrome extension. It provide us the information like total visits, bounce rate, pages per visit, average visit duration. You also gets the geographical audience with top visitor’s countries, major traffic sources including (paid, organic, social media, etc.) and top keyword search traffic. SimilarWeb extension give you all the above key metrics just with one click.

3.      SEO Minion

SEO Minion offers a set of compulsory On-Page SEO analysis needed on daily basis. SEO Minion gives data for following topics

• Analyze On-Page SEO
  • Page title
  • Page description
  • Canonical
  • Meta robots
  • Headings
  • Open graph
• Highlight All Links
  • Internal
  • External
  • Follow
  • No Follow
• Check Broken Links
• Hreflang Checker
• SERP Preview
• SERP Location Checker

4.      Light House

Lighthouse is developed by Google and powered by PageSpeed Insights. Lighthouse offers you a complete report to improve the quality, performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO tips. Get to know about all the issues that are reducing your web page’s speed. Fix the poor performance report indicators and improve your website SEO. The report gives a complete audit report for both mobile and desktop versions.

5.      AMP Validator

The AMP Validator chrome extension gives you a simple light indication. This helps us to understand that the page is using AMP or not. In-case the page is using AMP but have some failure, the tool gives you specific errors/warnings. The icon displays the number of issues/warning on the go. You will be directed to the AMP variant, if the variant is available.

6.      Open SEO Stats

Open SEO Stats (Formerly: PageRank Status) displays SEO stats and web rank of current web page. Get quick access to indexed pages, caches of the webpage, total number of backlinks and indexed pages for multiple search engines (Ask, Baidu, Bing, Goo, Google, Sogou, Yahoo, Yandex and 360). The extension also offers site security, page speed information and GEO location.  Link stats provide a complete list of internal and external links.

7.      NoFollow Simple

NoFollow Simple is really a simple extension which gives an instant visual to no follow backlinks. The tools shows all the no follow, UGC and sponsored attribute values with dotted red box. You may enable/disable the extension whenever and wherever it is needed.

8.      Alexa Traffic Rank

Looking for Alexa rankings for the websites? Alexa Traffic Rank is the official chrome extension of Alexa. Get all the basic Alexa metrics on the go. The basic Alexa information includes the website’s Alexa traffic rank, sites linking in, related keywords, similar sites and country-wise traffic rank.

9.      Link Redirect Trace

Link Redirect Trace is another important tool for all in one redirect path analyzer. The tool is real helpful while active, it shows number of redirect chains on the top bar icon. As we know that multiple redirect chains are really harmful for website rankings. With link redirect trace you can check all pages of the website very easily. Get further information of HTTP Headers, Rel-Canonicals, Robots.txt and the number of backlinks.

10. Ahrefs SEO Toolbar

The chrome extension of Ahrefs SEO Toolbar runs a basic On-Page SEO and basic SEO checklist report. The tool gives the report of Content (Meta, Dates, Word count, headings and heading hierarchy). Indexability with canonical, robots, sitemaps and hreflangs information. Social gives details for graph tags and twitter card. Images shows all images with alt, title and url details. HTTP Headers and Links with anchor text, dofollow, no-follow and link url.

11. Keywords Everywhere

Looking for keywords? Keywords Everywhere is the solution. This chrome extension gives monthly search volume, competition data and CPC. You can search for keywords for 10+ websites including Google, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Amazon, Bing, etc. Open Google, enter your keyword and hit search. You will get a list of related keywords, people also search for, trending keywords and long tail keywords.

12. Mangools SEO Extension

The Mangools SEO Extenson gives SEO statics powered by different tools like Moz, Majestic, etc. On-Page SEO list down SERP presence, Meta tags, Structured Data, Headings, On-page keywords, outbound links, social and page speed. Under the on-page keywords section, it also gives us the keyword density on page. All the above information is from the free version of this tool.