A SEO world without FireFox? Sounds like a nightmare. FireFox is a Mozilla-based browser that blows away the competition when it comes to SEO-ability. If you’re learning SEO, you must download it. With all due respect to Chrome and Safari, they are not on par vis-a-vis SEO tools. Here are three reasons you need FireFox, although you’ll only really need one.

FireFox Addon 1: SearchStatus

Any time you load a page, instantly see its Google PageRank and Alexa traffic rank. One way to start gaining some SEO experience is by understanding how and why pages are ranked they are. Compare search engine results with PageRank and you’ll quickly learn that even poorly-PageRanked pages can achieve high rankings. Alexa uses a traffic-based ranking system that roughly ranks the ‘busiest’ site on the Internet as #1. Google.com is #1, Facebook.com is #2 and Yahoo.com is #3.

FireFox Addon 2: SEO For FireFox

A powerful SEO tool that checks and displays rankings, links, header tags, meta data and internal or external links. All those intimidating buzzwords will start to make sense when you are able to ‘X-Ray’ websites. Extract keywords, descriptions and links to understand how it is optimized for search engines. It also features a quick and easy whois or IP lookup.

FireFox Addon 3: Yahoo Yslow

A great tool that evaluates page speed across a number of different dimensions and gives you a score. It rates your scripts, stylesheets, compression, header information and several other important website and server characteristics. Problem-areas are flagged and it even provides a basic explanation for your score.

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SEO For FireFox
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There are plenty more delicious addons, but start with these three and your SEO fancy will be more than tickled!