Top Safari SEO Extensions
Long overdue, Safari 5's support for Extensions is a welcome addition to the Macintosh web-master's toolbox.
In my first SEO Tools Blog post about Safari's new capabilities, I mentioned a few of the initial SEM-SEO Extensions for Safari 5 that appeared soon after Apple released it. Just the beginning to many more powerful site assessment tools to come. These two were first out of the gate and quite handy for quick backlinks and PageRank checking:
Yahoo BackLink Count and Google Page Rank
The most comprehensive Toolbar for Safari SEO : SEO Quake Toolbar For Mac - Lists Google Pagerank and indexed pages and backlink counts and data from Yahoo, Bing, Alexa, SEM-Rush, Domain Tools, WhoIS and more. It can cause some page rendering quirks since it floats within the content window - and doesn't actually occupy space in Safari's official tool bar / button space.
Some others that seem of particular value to website owners and bloggers:
Blog It For TypePad lets you surf the web and send clippings to your TypePad blog right from Safari's Toolbar.
Feedly - install
Reddit - install
Alexa - install
StumbleUpon ToolBar - Visit Site
Delicio.us - install
ScribeFire Bloging Tool - install
Safari Twitter Toolbar Integration
Mac compatible Twitter toolbars for Safari 5 have been quick to appear. Almost too quick - as some of them seem rather half-baked. buggy, or under-developed at this point. Look for one or two to rise to the top as they mature and gain widespread use. Too soon to say.
Twitter Offical Safari5 Toolbar - Visit Site
Best Safari SEM ToolBar Plug-Ins
The beta release of SEOQuake for Safari is a most welcome addition - packing the most SEO - SEM punch into a single narrow strip. Since it integrates it's stats INTO current onscreen windows - rather than on a dedicated toolbar row that Firefox and it's variants support - it does some rather strange shifts-down in page content I find annoying or frustrating depending on the site's CSS and HTML coding. Time - and further updates should make this the #1 SEO-SEM Safari tool of choice.Top FireFox SEM and SEO Add-Ons
With long-standing support for add-ons and plug-ins - FireFox for Mac OSX still has the edge on Search Engine Marketing and website assessment toolbars and buttons. Again, SEOQuake is one of the most powerful - and integrates better into the toolbar than the early Safari5 version at this point. Essential for assessing back-link counts and pages indexed counts at Google - Yahoo - Bing, as well as Alexa, DomainTools and SEMRush stats all in one place.A few other exceptional FireFox Add-Ons:
Amplify - Along the lines of Ping.fm and Posterous - this powerful button eases update broadcasts across a modest - tho powerful - set of Status, Micro-Blog and Blogging platforms to eastablish internet visibility with only a few clicks.
Clipmarks - This very popular and content rich social bookmark tool often shows it's worth with actual site visitors in several of my stat logs. ClipMarks delivers real traffic if your content and approach resonates with readers - putting it in my Top 10 favorites of Social sites that deliver the goods.
Folkd - This Do-Follow social bookmarking site guarantees backlinks in your sites page back-link count. Very much worth making full use of.
