SEO Book

Coming in at the prestigious first place is Seo Book’s brilliant tool bar. The tool bar contains many tools, but my two favorite are SEO X ray, and Rank checker. SEO X ray can be used whilst viewing any page to display the number of inbound links a page has and lot of other handy information, It can also tell you who is the registrant of the domain, and the domains age, all handy information to have when conducting research. Rank checker, is as you would expect, a rank checker. It has the ability to check multiple keywords at a pretty impressive rate on google and yahoo. You can save the results and also create keyword profiles for limitless number of domains. Although I do use far more sophisticated (and expensive) corporate edition rank checking and reporting software to provide my clients with their monthly reports, I find this tool great for checking ranks on a spur of the moment basis, perhaps when a client is on the phone asking for a progress update etc. And having said that rank checker does support the exporting of results to excel, so there is no reason that it could not be used for client reporting.

SEOmoz

Coming in second place is the seomoz tool bar, it has a lot of especially good features, but a big negative point is that most of the top features are only available to paid subscribers of seomoz. One very useful feature that is available to free users is the ability to highlight any links on a page that have been tagged with the rel=no follow attribute. This is very handy when link building as it allows you to identify at a quick glance whether a page is worth targeting for links or if they no follow all outbounds. I am sure that this tool bar could have been as good as the Seo book one, but the fact that they have limited access to some tools that are in the most part freely available from other sources means I have to mark them down.

Search Status

Search status is a handy addon to have installed on your browser, it displays Alexa Rank and Google page rank side by side on your browser toolbar for any page you are visiting, very handy when you are link building. Search Status is created for use with Mozilla Firefox browser.

Google Tool Bar

Google Tool Bar contains other functions that are not seo related, such as a spell checker and autofill, a feature that allows you to auto complete online forms, but it also contains the much coveted google page rank display! and a feature that allows you to check the backlinks a page has by clicking the downarrow next to the page rank display and selecting “backward links”. you may have to go into the toolbar options after installing it to turn on the PR display feature
(tools/addons/google tool bar/options/page rank)
The above version is for Mozilla Firefox browser.

SEO Browser Add-ons was written by: High Impact SEO Leeds For The High Impact SEO Blog.