Last year I blogged quite a bit about the Google Chrome browser which was newly launched and although I found it to be a quick browser which did speed up the browsing experience Chrome was limited for the SEO work I do on a daily basis as there were no plugins or extensions to help with this.

Last September there were some bookmarks available which allowed you to do some basic SEO tasks such as view the last cache date on the site and the pages listed in Google.

There are now some plugins available which perform similar functions to some of the Firefox plugins that I use on a regular basis.

Some of these include:

IETab – displays pages in the Chrome Browser as Internet Explorer.

Chrome Flags – the Chrome version of FlagFox which shows you the country flag for the location of the website thatyou are viewing.

Chrome SEO – allows you to view the indexed pages in Google, Bing and Yahoo, server location, domain information, backlinks and access the Google cached page

SEOQuake – the SEOQuake toolbar for Chrome

Domain Details – allows you to view the domain information such as server headers and IP addresses for any website.

Chrome Web Developer Tools – aims to be a clone of the Firefox web developer toolbar and enables you to check the validation of the CSS and HTML of a website, show link details and image alt texts.

Although I will continue to use Firefox as my primary browser I do see Chrome as a faster browser than both Internet Explorer and Firefox and will use Chrome when I want to view websites quickly without the load times of launching either of these browsers. These new extensions for Chrome will help me to do more SEO work from within this browser and could lead to me using Chrome more.