Last Updated: October 29, 2020
Doing SEO on your website can be a cumbersome task. There are many things you have to do in order to make the best optimized page.
There are many extensions offered on chrome web store that can help you to perfrom this function in a better way.
You can add as many extensions to chrome as possible but it will start getting slow if you add several extensions. It is better to have only a few extensions based on what you are trying to accomplish.
Here is a list of some popular SEO chrome extensions.
- SEOquake
- Meta SEO Inspector
- Keyword Surfer
- PageSpeed Insights
- SERPTrends
- SEO Peek
- GrowthBar
- Buzzsumo
- MozBar
- vidIQ
Different people like to use different tools depending on what they want to achieve. Before deciding the chrome extensions you want to use, it is recommended to try various extensions and see how they operate.
The best option would be the one which could do multiple things that you want. Instead of having multiple extensions and using each for one thing, you can see which extensions can give you multiple options.
This will ensure that your chrome browser does not take up more computer resources which can slow your system.
The main search engine is obviously Google and if you can optimize your website for Google you will have better chances of getting more traffic.
You can work on optimizing for other search engines as well but the amount of work required and the returns you may get are less when you do it for other search engines. So focus on Google.
While doing search engine optimization you have to do various tasks such as explore the keywords that are giving the best performance, observe the keyword difficulty score, check the backlinks to a page, check the word count on a page etc.
You also need to keep tabs on the monthly search volume, cost per click for various keywords and also check on the competition present on Google Adwords. It helps to understand how much budget you need to allocate to various aspects of marketing and how much return you can expect from them.
Having all this data directly while browsing your site or a competitors site will help you to take decisions quickly without having to go to a separate page and perform those same operations.
Getting traffic from social media is also an important part of the whole process. There is Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and many other social media sites which you should target to get traffic to your website.
Having a good strategy is a must to find out which platforms are best suitable for getting more traffic for you. Tracking everything is the key. When you track everthing properly, you will know which platforms are working for you and which platforms are not working.
Based on that you can decide how much time you should spend on the right platforms and figure out different strategies for platforms that are not working as effectively for getting traffic.