seo

In this post, you’ll find a list of SEO extensions for Google’s web browser Chrome. If you use Mozilla Firefox, you can read our article about 10 SEO plugins for Firefox.

Here are 5 useful SEO extensions for Chrome I chose to share with you:

1. Chrome SEO

Chrome SEO is an extension providing useful SEO information: pages indexed by main search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu...), backlinks, traffic and rank (Alexa, Compete…), search stats, bookmarks (Delicious, Digg...), cached (cached versions of the website), on site (http status code, robots.txt…), and domain details.

It also offers a very interesting feature which enables users to get keywords suggestions.

2. SEO Site Tools

SEO Site Tools Chrome extension gives metrics from many sources, including search engines and social media reactions. It enhances common tools like Yahoo Site Explorer and Google Webmaster tools with links anchor text and Google PageRank (PR). Also available : nofollow link hilighting, popout ability, color themes.

In addition, SEO Site Tools displays relevant page elements to SEO (header tags, bold/strong, anchor tags and follow attribute) as well as title length, meta description and keywords.

3. PageRank

PageRank is a very simple extension working on Chrome for Windows as well as Chromium for Mac. It only has one function: displaying the PageRank of the current visited page.

4. SeoQuake

SEO Quake extension displays the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and other SEO parameters of any webpage, highlights nofollow links, text density, check and compare urls.

As you can see below, it also works on SERP.

5. SEO Status PageRank / Alexa toolbar

SEO Status extension checks the Google PageRank & Alexa rank for every page. When the button is clicked, it shows more data such as Alexa graph, backlinks link, Whois link, domain availabiliy for other TLDs

Using this toolbar will improve the Alexa ranking of the websites that you visit, just like the IE Alexa tooblar does.

Feel free to share other SEO extensions for Chrome.

Head of Google’s Webspam team Matt Cutts posted yesterday an article in his blog, giving interesting SEO advice: it is best practice to give a url for each of your store location. Let me explain.

Companies having many store locations do not necessarily make a web page for each store and would rather offer search form or POST. And this is a mistake if they want this information to be found by search engines.

In a nutshell, Matt Cutts advices you to make:

- a web page for each store that lists the store’s address, phone number, business hours, etc. (unique url for each page) ;

- an HTML sitemap that points to those pages with regular HTML links, not a search form or POST requests. If you don't have many stores, you could have a single page that links to all your stores. On the contrary, if you do have plenty of stores, you could have for example a web page for each country that links to all stores in that country.

You can find more SEO tips in our previous posts, notably Baidu SEO tips, SEO Audit Example: Amazon China, How to optimize your Chinese urls for Baidu, and  How to optimize your images for Google image search.

Why am I wondering if Google can detect duplicate content? well, because I see many examples while online of people and websites who obviously are trying to trick the king of search engines, and who actually succeed.

Easy to copy!
Not with a very complicated infrastructure, nor by paying 10 215 people doing this and clicking there, which would be difficult for google to detect, but just by using very simple duplicate content technics (… I know, I was surprised too).

SEO Services Company Here!
An Example ? well, of course I come with an example for you, I know you would NOT believe me otherwise (I am not speaking about you mom, I know you believe me no matter what ;o)

So, here this Indian website, their technique is really simple, they target the search query or keywords “SEO Services Company” + “a place”.
For example : “SEO services company budapest” or “seo services company oxford”
They created a page for every city, or state, with the city keyword in the title and url. yes, only the city name was different, not the rest of the text of the page, which means that on this website, 99% of the words in each page are … the same. On each page, there are internal links to the other pages, with the name of the city in the achor text like on the picture here under :

Google says no: but obviously "YES YOU CAN"
Still, Google doesn’t  ban them. Actually it’s even worse (or better, depending on the point of view ;o), but they are ranking 1st on some of these cities! How come google doesn’t detect the trick while the pages are mearly copies ? I don’t know. I think it’s not that hard to compare the text of each page and see if 99% of the words are the same, or is it?

Black hat SEO is Risky SEO
I am not advising you to use this technique OF COURSE, that’s black hat SEO, and that annoys Google (and the people using it), because when you put “SEO Services company” with the name of a city, that clearly means that you want the company to be in that city, not in India (although India is beautiful). The day Google will be able to detect this fraud… the website is going down, deep down, and that would be a risk for your online business.

Google and Duplicate Content detection and NoFollow
It reminds me that everyone was thinking that google was taking the nofollow tag into account, until google (actually, matt cutts) said it didn’t. Isn’t it the same with duplicate content? Can they detect it?

Check the Rankings
You can check the rankings of this website I am talking about here under, In many cases, the website is ranking number one (and you can check your own rankings in google and baidu using our tool here). Also, let me know what you think about it, please use comments below to start the discussion:

impressive isn't it? well, still, don't follow this example... by the way "hhh" was just a test of mine that i forgot on the picture ;o)