SEO Plugins: What Do You Use, and Why?
ByOne of the people I follow on Twitter, @Brittanny, a photographer, was complaining about Firefox crashing all the time. I shared that I had the same issues with Firefox no matter which of our three computers I used, so I switched to Chrome. But another Tweeter, @georgebross, a web designer and SEO professional, said that he uses Firefox because of the search engine optimization tools he uses, his favorite being SEOQuake.
Since Search Engine Optimization is vital for web marketing, I started researching SEO plugins for Chrome, and then decided to ask SEO pros, web designers, and web developers, “What SEO plugins do you use?”
I’m especially interested in SEO plugins for Google Chrome, but don’t let that stop you from answering one or more of the following questions. I want to hear about the best tools out there, and I know you do, too. SEO developers are welcome to trumpet their work for us to check out.
I’ll post results in a separate blog one week from today.
1) What’s your favorite SEO plugin? What browser is the plugin designed for?
2) What makes your favorite stand out from the crowd?
3) What feature(s) do you rely on most?
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my new tool SEO Site Tools has been getting alot of attention… its now the 2ed most popular extension for SEO
id love for some more users / feedback
Carter, I really appreciate your reply! I was going to delete this post after getting only one response, but thought, “No way! Drive the traffic to Carter’s SEO Plugin!” Hope you get a lot of attention from it.
~Michelle Quillin for New England Multimedia & Q Web Consulting
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Here are the plugins that I recommend in the eBook SEO in a Day:
1. All in One SEO Pack
2. Akismet
3. Google Analytics for Wordpress
4. Google XML Sitemaps
5. Dagon Design Sitemap Creator
6. reCaptcha Form
7. Robots Meta
8. Sexy Bookmarks
9. Simple Crumbs
10. Top Level Categories
11. Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool
12. WP-reCaptcha
These seem to work great for all things search-related.
Steve, thanks so much for sharing this list of SEO plugins you recommend! Will definitely be checking out your eBook, and I hope others will as well.
~Michelle Quillin for New England Multimedia & Q Web Consulting
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Thanks Michelle. I’ve been getting a lot of great feedback. It’s nice to finally have a standard platform that works all non-ecommerce websites isn’t it?
At OMS this year I had a chat with Dylan Boyd of eROI, who also recommended ScribeSEO.com, which will absolutely blow your mind. [kudos to Dylan Boyd]; can’t wait to try this one.
Wow, Steve — did you see the testimonials on ScribeSEO.com? Naomi is right: “Optimizing for search engines isn’t that hard once you understand the fundamentals, but neither is weight loss. Or financial planning. Or organizing your garage. You get it. You just don’t get where to start or whether you’re doing it right.”
Looks promising. Thanks for the heads up!
~Michelle Quillin for New England Multimedia & Q Web Consulting
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http://twitter.com/NEMultimedia