9 Amazing Google Chrome Extensions

Using Google Chrome Extensions to your advantage as a business.

When it comes to browser extensions, there is more than just ad-block. So many people are missing out tools which are not only effective for your brand but also make your life so much easier. With tools for planning social media posts, saving money and gaining traffic, you’re spoiled for choice. So if you’re a small business and looking for some tips and tricks when it comes to boosting your views and content. Check out this post.

SEO Quake

This extension is one for SEO and works towards helping you build your site ranking within Google. It’s free and allows you to analyse, your competitors in detail alongside completing an on-page SEO audit. SEO Quake also provides a pop-up feature which will advise you of metrics once you click through to a site.

Moz Bar

This tool is used mostly for checking domain authority, however, it also has some other fantastic features. Such as page authority and you can also get a page analysis from the website, which provides information such as spam score and how many linking root domains to any page in which you are searching.

Buzz Stream

A perfect tool for finding new contacts within a site, this extension will find the contact details of those assisted with the site. This can be a great tool as you are able to contact the editors about pitching guest posts or to propose a link building opportunity.

TubeBuddy

Your best friend when it comes to your video marketing strategy. The extension TubeBuddy comes with knowledge about YouTube videos and can provide information such as the tags and view count. Which of course, is useful when it comes to analysing your own content. When you upload your own video it offers the same support, allowing you to write the best metadata and figure out how to get your content ranking higher.

Buffer

If you follow our blog regularly you’ll know we are huge fans of Buffer and recently wrote a post all about our favourite social media scheduling tools. When it comes to Buffer it has so many effective features such as being able to “rebuffer” your content, which means to reshare it without needing to rewrite it. Which is great for building up a schedule for platforms such as Twitter. With the Buffer extension, you are able to schedule a post directly from the page you are on. This is fantastic when you’re looking to quickly share content to your following across your social platforms. Alongside this Buffer also pulls the images from the site.

Grammarly

Grammarly is one of those extensions which are life-changing, you don’t know how you coped without it before having it. When it comes to writing an email or a piece of content, grammar and spelling can often trip us up. Grammarly, will underline your mistakes throughout a post and suggest where to add and remove grammar. With the paid version of the site, it will also provide you with word suggestions which are fantastic for those who find themselves looking to branch out with their vocabulary.

However, in terms of the free vs paid versions of Grammarly, the free version offers a huge amount of qualities without the additional price tag.

BuzzSumo

Struggling with engaging content to create for your blog? Find out what your competitors are writing and how well their content is doing on social media by using BuzzSumo. By analysing content from your competitors, you are then given the content you should be creating vs. what you shouldn’t be.

Save to Pocket

The extension that saves all of your tabs with one click of a button. Most of us struggle with productivity when we surrounded by mounts of tabs and different work to be getting on with. Using Save to Pocket means you can open the tabs you need for a particular piece of work and then close it and move on to the next. When it’s time to go back to that work, you have your tabs ready to go.

Check My Links

Providing you with links that are broken or no longer working on any page you visit. Broken links not only hurt your own site in ways such as domain authority and page ranking on Google. By using Check My Links, it also allows you to view the links of your competitors and if you spot broken ones, it may be worth pointing this out to who the link is pointing to. Offering them a link back to your site which is ideal when it comes to building your link profile.