Keeping a website or blog up to date requires a lot of work. This requires spending a lot of time and effort organizing all of your content, links, and traffic to ensure they get seen. To do this, creators can customize and improve the browsing experience through extensions and applications that we have available for Chrome, from their own store.
Google Chrome is a web browser that has gained enormous popularity since it was released 14 years ago. Mainly due to its features such as stability, speed and its compatibility with plugins which are highly appreciated by home users, professionals and bloggers alike. This is because within the Chrome Web Store we can find extensions that will help us do things more easily and effectively.
Types of essential tools for a blog
There is a wide variety and quantity of Chrome extensions specially designed to be used in the day-to-day of creating and maintaining a blog. Since we are talking about the most widely used browser worldwide with a market share of over 69%, it means that most users use this tool for their daily activities. Its use can be beneficial both to generate traffic for our digital business and to become our main source of income.
With the idea of having tools for our blog, we can use different add-ons that are available for Chrome. Among them you can not miss an SEO tool to help us position our site . We can also use applications that help us find broken links , or that allow us to see the content of our site in different resolutions to adapt to all types of devices from which it can be accessed. You can not miss a utility that helps us share our content on social networks where we give visibility to our content, as well as research keywords for our site.
These are just some examples of key tools that every blogger should take into account when creating or managing their website. Therefore, today we are going to see different add-ons for Chrome that will provide us with tools that will make it easier for us to carry out various tasks, as well as save some time and improve our productivity when working with our blog.
Web ranking and SEO statistics
Next, we are going to tell you which are the extensions for Chrome that we consider essential to know details of web classification and SEO statistics.
Open SEO Stats, ranking and traffic statistics
An essential tool for both developers and bloggers is SEO. For this we can use this useful complement that shows us both the web classification and the SEO statistics of the current web page. We will also have quick access to indexed pages and links, which have made it a very popular tool.
It offers different perspectives of the website such as statistics (Alexa Traffic Rank, number of index pages in popular search engines and web hosting. We will also have statistics of traffic and links, information and speed of the site, etc. It will only be necessary click on the Open SEO Stats icon in Chrome once installed when visiting a website to reveal all its knowledge to us.
This extension is available for free from the Chrome Web Store .
Ahrefs SEO Toolbar, provide SEO data from various pages
It is a free extension that is responsible for providing us with useful SEO data about the pages and websites we visit, allowing us to see Ahrefs data more quickly, both in Google results and within a domain. Its features include on-page SEO reports and redirecting the crawler with HTT headers. It also allows you to highlight links, create SERP positions and export all the data of a Google query with all its metrics.
Within a page it gives us the possibility of seeing the header codes of a specific page, as well as all its redirections, if any. In addition, it is capable of detecting 404 errors on a page and exporting the data, analyzing the On Page of the page and seeing the number of total outgoing links on the page and how many of them are “nofollow”. We can download this plugin for Chrome from its store.
Web Developer, aimed at web design and SEO
This almost essential extension that is responsible for adding a button with various web development tools to our browser, characterized by its simplicity and for being one of the most complete that we can find. Thanks to it we will have access to extensive information from which we can review the On Page elements, which makes it especially useful in the use of web design and SEO.
Among its features, the possibility of activating and deactivating the CSS and JavaScript of a page stands out, so that we can see how it is really structured. We will also be able to see at a glance and in a simple way the ALT attributes of the images, marking in red all those that lack this attribute. From its Tools section, it will show us both ALT errors , repeated headers and text, among other matters of interest. Download and install Web Developer for free to have all its tools for your blog.
Check broken links
These add-ons for Chrome will allow us to analyze and find broken links, so their use seems essential for our blog.
LinkMiner, check that the links are correct
One of the most tedious things is finding broken links on a web page, so this is a tool that we can consider essential for every blogger. This extension is responsible for analyzing web pages for broken links, extracting the metrics of these links. In this way we will obtain all kinds of information about the links we are reviewing, obtain link data and social networks.
Everything is done in a simple way, since it will only be necessary to click on the extension’s icon and it will take care of marking the existing broken links on the web page with a red background, so that it is easily detectable at a glance. It also allows you to enable various options that will show us the error code.
In addition, it should be noted that it is also responsible for displaying important SEO metrics for Google search results and without the need to click on that page. We can download and install LinkMiner for free from the Chrome store.
Check My Links, detects links in bad condition
Regardless of the reason why a link may be broken , we should know that users who click on it may be disappointed if it does not work, since they will not be able to access the expected result. That is why we are facing an extension specially developed for web designers, developers and content editors.
We are talking about a link checker that is responsible for tracking our blog and allows us to find broken links at a glance. Its operation, as expected, is very simple, since it will highlight in green those that work, while it will highlight in red those that have stopped working. It also allows us to copy all the broken links to our clipboard with a single click. We can install Check My Links from this Chrome web link .
Manage social networks
Integrating our blog in social networks can be important to publicize all its content and reach as many people as possible. These extensions will help us to do so.
Buffer, schedule your posts
We are talking about a free tool for managing social networks, which makes it easier for us to be able to share publications on our profiles on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram where they are integrated. Once downloaded and installed, the extension allows us to schedule our posts with the click of a button.
When it comes to publishing the articles, we can do it while we browse directly through our social networks to schedule it and have it appear when we need it. The content we add is automatically synchronized with our account both on our computer and on our mobile. In addition, it has a button called “share image” with which we can quickly share images for social networks throughout the web.
We can download Buffer for free by clicking on this link to the Chrome website .
SocialPilot, program content and automate our feeds
This interesting and useful complement is going to help us to be able to program publications in several accounts of different social networks, so that they appear within our profiles, pages and groups. It is compatible with platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn . In this way we will be able to get our content to millions of users around the world.
SocialPilot allows us to connect to all our accounts in an unlimited way, being able to categorize all the connected accounts by group. Automate our feeds by allowing us to share new posts and content from famous websites on our social media profile. Therefore, this is a tool designed to save us money, time, and effort when making our blog posts known. We can install it from the Chrome Web Store .
check keywords
These complements are very useful because they will help us search for keywords so that we have enough resources for a better positioning of our articles.
Keywords Everywhere, research on keywords for our blog
It is a free extension that will help us with keyword research, search volume and competition, providing metrics for trends among more than 15 websites such as Google, YouTube, Amazon, etc. It has a wide variety of built-in tools to find keywords from a seed word, for which any page or domain ranks in the SERPs.
We will be able to see the estimated organic traffic and the top 5000 keywords for all the pages and websites in Google. It also shows us Moz link metrics for domains present in organic search results. Users using the free version have access to all keyword research tools on sites like Amazon, Bing, Etsy, and DuckDuckGo.
In addition, this plugin has a paid version. Those users who purchase it will also have access to monthly search volume, CPC, competition, trend data, and historical search volume. We can download it from the Chrome store .
Keyword Surfer, improve ranking opportunities
Currently, the relevance of our content is a fundamental factor. For this reason, it is a very useful extension that will allow us to see the search volumes directly in the Google search results. We will be able to discover similar keywords for better ranking opportunities, accelerating the keyword research process and dominating related searches . This way we can target a wide variety of keywords with the same content or plan new articles and landing pages.
For every new search we run on Google, we’ll uncover search volumes, CPCs, keyword suggestions, related terms, viewability metrics, and on-page data. It is also possible to set up a content editor with NLP-based guidelines for our content and start creating right away. Thus, we can carry out the entire content creation process (search, writing and optimization) without having to leave the Google search page, saving us time and gaining in productivity.
SEOStack Keyword Tool, generate ideas to convert into keywords
It is a free tool developed by SeoStack with which we can find and generate ideas to enter as a keyword from another word, so that we can boost our SEO and content marketing. With it we can generate all kinds of keywords under the competition of multiple different search engines.
This plugin is responsible for extracting autocomplete suggestions from both Google, YouTube, Bing, Yahoo, Amazon and Ebay. We can open the tool in multiple tabs for ease of use, as well as export the keywords to a csv file. We can install it for free within the Chrome Web Store.
Other accessories of interest
Next, we tell you about another series of complements that can also be of great interest when developing our blog or website.
Window Resizer, adapt your blog to different types of screen
This add-on is widely used and especially useful for both web designers and developers as well as bloggers as it helps to test layouts in different browser resolutions . Its mission is very simple because we can change the size of the browser window so that we can emulate various screen resolutions. Thus, it will be ideal for us to see first-hand how certain content is displayed on the screen of the PC, on a mobile or on a tablet.
The extension allows us to configure both the width and height of the window, its position, the default icon, as well as the possibility of applying the new dimensions both to the entire window and to just one viewport. In addition, it has customizable keyboard shortcuts, the possibility of exporting the configuration made and importing it to another computer, among other options.
Without a doubt, this is an essential tool for the design of our Blog. We can download Window Resizer for free.
Office editing, view and edit Microsoft Office files
With the Office editing extension, bloggers who have little hard drive space to install applications or have their file uploaded to the cloud will find a great tool to work with. With it we will be able to view and edit Microsoft Word , Excel and PowerPoint files (without having to have them installed on the computer) in the Google Documents, Spreadsheets and Presentations applications.
Once the extension is downloaded and installed, all we have to do is drag the Office files to Chrome that we open with Gmail, Drive, etc., so that they run with the Docs, Sheets or Slides applications, from where we can see and edit them. It supports the most popular Office formats like doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt and pptx. Also, after any changes made we can save the new files with their original Office format.
Office Edition is a free add-on that we can install by clicking on this link to its website within the Chrome store.
Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder, capture and record screen
It is an essential complement to take screenshots to give a serious and professional look to our blog. Along with the possibility of taking screenshots, it also allows us to record the PC screen with a maximum duration of 5 minutes. It is easy to use and allows us to save an image of the entire window, the scrolling window or just its visible area with a single mouse click.
Once the image is taken, we can edit it from the browser itself , so it will not be necessary to use external software for it. It has functions such as add text, crop, highlight area, add shapes, draw, blur, among others. Once finished we can save the final result both in our local storage and in various cloud services. All this without ads and respecting our privacy.
It is worth mentioning that when it comes to recording we can do it from our desktop, the current window or the camera, including sound and choosing between different video formats such as HD, FullHD or 4K. We can also make annotations on the screen while recording or at the end and share the results in Slack, Trello, Asana or GitHub. We can download it for free from the Chrome store.