Getting tired of spending money on SEO and still not seeing any results? These 10 free chrome extensions can be used as excellent on-page audit, keyword research, rank checking technical optimisation tools. Whether you are new to digital marketing or have a long history of being an SEO expert, these extensions will make your work easier and enable you to move up the SERPs without shedding a single rupee.
✅SEO Meta in 1 Click (Meta SEO Inspector)
Meta SEO Inspector is a light Chrome extension that allows you to see the on-page SEO fundamentals of any webpage with one glance. It provides you metadata such as title tags, meta descriptions, header tags, open graphs, canonical tags, and structured data directly. This assists you to examine that your on-page factors are optimized/lacking.
How it works: Performs the display of metadata and SEO-related HTML tags in a single click.
How it helps: Allows you to recognize gaps or poorly optimized meta content that influences the way that engines view your page.
✅Keyword Surfer
Keyword Surfer puts keyword research directly on your Google search results. When you are searching, it represents search volume, CPC, and keyword ideas directly on the SERP, and you do not need to open a dozen of tools. It is ideal when you need to do sort of research without switching the tools, when you want to conduct some search and find high-volume, low-competition keywords.
How it works: Displays a volume search, keywords suggestions, and CPC in Google.
How it helps: Helps discover keywords in real-time without either tabbing or switching tools.
✅Search Simulator SEO
This tool helps you experience a Google search in any corner of the world revealing how a search engine result page (SERP) appears in other countries. It is a convenient application to measure the positions without considering search history or location.
How it works: SERP simulation to track local rankings.
✅The SEO toolbar by Ahrefs
Ahrefs SEO Toolbar is a powerful web browser extension to see in-depth metrics of a domain and page-level, by Ahrefs. It has such grammars as Domain Rating (DR), URL Rating (UR), the number of backlinks, and estimated organic traffic, which are indicated as viewing. The extension provides decent signals of SEO even before opting to participate in a paid plan.
How it works: Displays such Ahrefs metrics as backlinks, DR, UR, and an estimate of the traffic.
The reason why it is useful: Provides immediate authority and link profile information to analyse competitors and self.
✅SEOquake
SEOquake is an ultimate SEO audit tool that operates on your browser. It provides the full SEO metrics, such as on-page checks, keyword density and link analysis, SERP overlays and social issues. It is one of the free extensions with the most features.
What it does: Conducts page audits, shows domain stats as well as adding information to search results.
Why it is helpful: It is perfect when conducting a full SEO diagnosis and when exploring the competition and does not require the use of a variety of tools.
✅Lighthouse
Lighthouse is a Google-created open-source, automated tool, which is integrated into Chrome DevTools. It analyses web pages in terms of performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. It is practical in particular when it comes to determining problems with Core Web Vitals such as loading speed, interactivity, and layout stability. It is employed by digital marketers and developers to enhance technical/user experience.
What it does: Conducts SEO, performance, accessibility, and other forms of audits.
Why it comes in handy: Assists in identifying the technical issues that affect page speed and ranking performance, particularly mobile-first indexing.
✅MozBar
MozBar is a popular Moz SEO extension that displays vital page and domain metrics when navigating across the web. It also overlays SERPs with SEO information, including displaying Domain Authority (DA), Page Authority (PA), and spam score. It is amazing at tracking competitive backlinks and finding high-authority backlinks.
How it works: Displays Moz indicators such as DA, PA, and keywords on SERPs.
✅Redirect Path
Redirect Path is an Ayima-made technical extension to SEO and extends attention to HTTP codes and redirect chains as you navigate. It identifies 301, 302, 404 and 500 errors immediately and displays server response headers. It is perfect to find redirect loops, damaged links, or canonical problems.
What does it do: It presents redirect routes and status codes of any URL.
Why it is helpful: Minimizes SEO problems related to bad redirects or broken pages.
✅Detailed SEO Extension
The Detailed SEO Extension also gives a nice and clear overview of the structure of SEO of a webpage. It displays header, schema, meta tags, word count, links etc. It is speedy, easy to use, and does not dazzle you with excess information, ideal in case you want a quick audit.
What it provides: Provides a brief description of major on-page SEO factors.
What makes it useful: It can be handy in conducting rapid audits and getting the idea of how a page is constructed in terms of SEO.
Conclusion:
These are some of the free SEO add-ons we use daily at Techvint to optimize websites, search keywords and stay on top of search ranking trends- all at no cost to the rupee. They are cheap, efficient, and the best tools to be used by budget-conscious digital marketers.
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