Pimping Firefox for search marketers
May 12, 2015
Pimping Firefoxfor search marketers
Who am I and who do I work for?
Joost de Valk
• Dutch male
• SEO & Webdeveloper
• Search Strategist for Onetomarket, with clients like:
• KLM, Wegener (Mecom), Conrad, AMEX
• I blog at www.joostdevalk.nl on SEO, WordPress, Analytics, and Webdevelopment
Why Firefox?
It’s the best browser out there!
Most important reasons:
• Great source view
• Built-in search
• Extensible
• Extensible
• Extensible
SEO for Firefox
SEO for FireFox:
• http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html
Customize Google
Customize Google:
• http://www.customizegoogle.com/
Disabling personalized search
Disable personalized search:
• http://www.joostdevalk.nl/seo-tools/disable-personalized-search-plugin/
Dave Davis’ Google Global:
• http://www.redflymarketing.com/
Greasemonkey:
• https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/748
Literally hundreds of thousands of useful scripts,a shameless plug of my own:
• Statistics detector:• http://www.joostdevalk.nl/code/greasemonkey/statistics-detector/
• Google Webmaster Tools++:• http://www.joostdevalk.nl/dl/code/greasemonkey/gwt-external-lin
ks/gwtexternallinks.user.js
• Show nofollows:• http://www.joostdevalk.nl/code/greasemonkey/nofollow-display/
Greasemonkey
Web Developer Toolbar
Web Developer Toolbar:
• http://downloads.chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/web-developer.xpi
Good for:
• Disabling style sheets
• Disabling javascript& meta refreshes
• Displaying alt tags
• And loads more
Live HTTP headers
Check those redirects: is it a 301 or a 302?Is this really a 404, or is it giving a 200 instead?
You can easily check:
• http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/
Unavoidable: PageRank
Just PR:
• Live PR:
• http://livepr.raketforskning.com/firefox-extension.html
SearchStatus:
• PageRank, Alexa, option to highlight nofollows, and more:
• http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
Screengrabber
Need to make screenshots a lot?
We all do…
Screengrabber:
• https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/1146
Allows grabbing of current screen, entire page or selection of the screen…
Firebug
More for general webdevelopment, but good for catching sneaky javascripts as well:
• http://www.getfirebug.com/
User-Agent Switcher
Sometimes you just want to catch someone cloaking…
User-agent switcher:
• http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/