Pimping Firefox for 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

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

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

SEO for FireFox:

http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html

Customize Google Customize Google: http://www.customizegoogle.com/

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/

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-links/gwtexternallinks.user.js Show nofollows: http://www.joostdevalk.nl/code/greasemonkey/nofollow-display/ Greasemonkey

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-links/gwtexternallinks.user.js

Show nofollows:

http://www.joostdevalk.nl/code/greasemonkey/nofollow-display/

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

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/

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/

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…

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/

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/

Sometimes you just want to catch someone cloaking…

User-agent switcher:

http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/