Best Chrome Extension of SEO For Beginners

Most of the SEO Tools has been Available on Google Chrome Extension

But having too many extensions doesn't necessarily equate to higher productivity.

In fact, this can lead to slowing down your computer.

So with so many options, the challenge is in choosing only the ones you actually need.

Well, I've already done a lot of the hard work for you, so today, I'm going to show you what I think are the best Chrome extensions for your everyday SEO needs.

Sam Oh here with Ahrefs, the SEO tool that helps you grow your search traffic, research your competitors and dominate your niche.

Now, the extensions I'm about to share with you are in no particular order.

Instead, I'm going to share 1-3 extensions that help with common SEO categories.

And of course, I'll show you how they work and share a use case or two.

So let's get started with some Chrome extensions for link building.

Hunter is an email finding tool and in I've found it to be the best one to find emails quickly and accurately.

Just visit a page, and click on the icon in the extension bar.

You'll then see a list of associated name sand email addresses that Hunter has found somewhere on the web.

Just click on the Hunter icon, then enter the firsthand last name of the person in the search box.

Hunter will try and return a result either with scraped data or in this case, their best guess for the person.

You can click this icon to save them in the Hunter web app or click the email address to copy it to your clipboard.

This tool lets you open, copy or bookmark multiple links at the same time.

So let's say you're in the Backlinks reporting Ahrefs' Site Explorer and you want to visit these three pages to see if they'll be good link prospects.

With Linkclump installed, just hold down the letter Z and then drag your cursor over the links.

Let go and it'll open the pages in a new tab so it's just a matter of qualifying or disqualifying them from your list.

And if you don't want to open them in new tabs, you can create new actions in the extension Options menu.

So you'll see that I've set another one hereto copy the URLs when I hold down X and drag my mouse.

So let's say we're in Google and looking for resource page link opportunities.

And when you visit this page, you'll see that the page has links to some external resources.

So I'll hold down X, and drag my mouse over the links.

From here, I might check out the backpedalling of these pages and see if they've built other resource links, which I could then go after.

This extension will put a box around all links that are no followed on a page.

You can use this when you're looking for guest posting opportunities.

So just visit a post on a site you want to write for, and scroll through it to see if all or most of the links are no followed.

If they are, it probably won't be worth your time to write for their blog if link building is your goal.

The next extension is my absolute favorite,which kind of fits into an "all-in-one" category… P.S.

Just enter your query, and you'll see keyword metrics under the search bar like search volume, CPC, Keyword Difficulty scores, and more.

On top of that, you'll see estimated search traffic and the number of backlinks at both page and domain levels.

When you click one of the numbers, it'll open up the respective report in Ahrefs where you can continue your analysis.

The toolbar is also visible on any page you visit and you'll see SEO metrics there too.

Now, in order to see this data, you'll need an Ahrefs account.

But we've also added some free features likes Broken Link Checker and an On-Page Analysis tool, which you can use by clicking the icons here.

A premium option for keyword research would be Surfer SEO's Keyword Surfer extension.

Just enter a query in Google, and you'll see global search volumes and country-specific search volume.

And they have a couple other cool features like keyword ideas in the sidebar and domain level data like estimated search traffic and number of backlinks.

I'm not 100% sure how or where they get their traffic and backlinks data, but it feels a bit off to me.

For example, they estimate Amazon.com's search traffic to be 46.9 million and total "quality backlinks" to be just over 700,000.

And the numbers seem pretty low for me since we've found over 3 billion live links for Amazon's domain, and estimate their search traffic to be 714 million,which are usually under-estimations.

But I wouldn't hold it against them, the company focuses more on on-page SEO and from what I've heard, they do a great job.

Speaking of on-page SEO, the best standalone Chrome extension I've found for that is SEO Minion.

SEO Minion is an extension that's greatfor quick on-page spot-checks.