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5 Firefox Plugins/Toolbars : Every Webmaster must have

With Firefox everything has changed, yes it has revolutionized the way we surf the web. One of the neat feature of Firefox includes plugins or extensions. Extensions are small plugins that extend the functionality of Firefox. Today I will list the most important Extensions/Toolbars in Firefox that any web developer, SEO analyst or webmaster must have.

1. Google Toolbar

Google Toolbar is a neat tool from Google that helps you search Google with a single click of the button. Firefox already has Google Search built in by default so why we need to download the toolbar seperately, it is because the toolbar lets us check the PageRank, Backward Links etc. You can also access all Google products with a click of a button in the toolbar.

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2. Alexa Toolbar

Alexa Toolbar helps us to judge the traffic of a website. Many marketing company judge a websites quality using the Alexa rating. Alexa is a very rude way to judge a websites traffic. Alexa shows the ranking based on the toolbar installed by there users. But the whole webmaster community judges your website by Alexa so this is a must have toolbar.

3. SEO for Firefox

SEO for FF is a very handy extension. As you search in Google it will displays many important information regarding the website. Find out what it offers in the feature list below. Pulls useful market research data right into Google’s and Yahoo!’s search results.

• 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.

4. Web Developer

Web Developer extension adds a menu and a Toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. Using this extension you can quickly access the sites css, forms, images etc. of any website. Very handly tool for webmasters, a must have.

5. Rank Quest

RankQuest helps you to carry out your daily SEO right from the browser. It has almost all the features a SEO analyst can ask for. It has Page validation, Content Tool, Meta Tool, SEO tool, SEM tools and more. This has to be my personal favorite tool.