Firefox extensions are great tools for both analysing and optimising a website within a blink of an eye. Today we are going to talk about what extensions to choose for your everyday work, how those can help you and we are also opened to other extensions as well.

Here they are listed below:

1.      SEO Quake

SEO Quake is very handy when trying to see information about a website, whether we are talking about how many indexed pages it has, what is the Google PageRank, how many backlinks it holds and many other interesting metrics, all with a click of a button. However, you can see other on-page data like titles, descriptions, keyword density and so on.

2.      SEO for Firefox

Exactly as the one above, it is just a matter of taste whether you choose SEO Quake or SEO for Firefox.

3.      Firebug

Need an extension that allows you to quickly edit a website’s code, whether we are talking about HTML, CSS, JavaScript? Look no further, Firebug extension might be exactly what you are searching for.

4.      Google Global for ranking check

This is a top-notch extension for keywords ranking monitoring from other locations. Whether you would want to see the ranks from a US visitors point of view or an UK one, this tool is perfect for monitoring Google results from other locations.

5.      SEO Workers Analysis Tool

Last, but not least, this extension is great to check the on-page SEO status of a certain page. From meta tags, keywords in anchor tags, keywords in “alt text” to even headers returned from the server, all these can be analysed with the help of this fantastic Firefox extension.

A new piece of research has revealed that Firefox is responsible for a large amount of Google’s share. The survey by Chitika shows there were more Firefox-based Google searches than total searches from Bing or Yahoo.

Looking at a sample of more than 14 million impressions across the Chitika advertising network, Firefox holds the key to 9.17% of the search market – more than any one company except Google itself.

The study revealed that:
•    Firefox drove 23% of all traffic to the network.
•    Of Firefox’s search traffic, 91.45% came from Google and 39.87% cane specifically from the Firefox start page.

Of course, this isn’t representative of the whole search market but it could have wider implications. Next year, Mozilla’s contract, which sets Google as the default browser in their Firefox browser, comes to an end. We think there will be a huge bidding war!

Speak to WebCreationUK, a specialist in SEO and web design, to find out what they could do for you and your website.

What is an Internet Browser? And for that matter, what difference does it make?

For the uninitiated, the Internet Browser is a program used to access web pages, and if you’re not familiar with this term then chances are you’ve just been using the default Windows Internet Explorer which comes pre-loaded on all Windows PCs. This browser has been the dominant standard for the past 5 years.

It seems that only a short while ago, Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) had won the browser wars and the corpse of Netscape was finally laid to rest, however, there are now a number of new challenges to IE.

Firstly is Firefox, an alternative browser which has made massive gains in the last couple of years. Firefox is our browser of choice due to it’s speed and a number of pioneering innovations which were lacking on IE.

Secondly is the resurgent Apple Safari . Apple uses it’s own Safari browser in it’s computers and it’s recent success in laptop sales in particular has seen a marked increase in it’s browser share. The browser is also available on the PC.

Thirdly is the manner in which websites are accessed. Increasingly mobile devices are being used instead of home PCs and these use a number of different browsers to access the web. These in themselves are re-defining how the internet is viewed and used, and the iPhone / iPod touch in particular is a growing figure on website statistics.

Later this week I’ll be discussing why this matters, and how your website can benefit from these changes, but for the moment I’ll leave you with the statistics from our own website. As our site is technology-focused, one would expect a higher usage of alternative browsers from the mainstream but it is still an interesting change from the 80%+ dominance we used to see for IE.

Internet Explorer 60%
Firefox 29%
Safari 6%
iPhone 0.39%
Others ~4%