18 Extremely Helpful Firefox Extensions For Directory Owners

How to spend less time maintaining and promoting your directory and still get excellent results? One way to do it is by customizing the award-winning web browser, Firefox, to fully suite your online life. With Firefox 2, you will be able to use powerful extensions that will help you promote, establish and maintain your directory.

Here is a list of 18 extensions that are recommended for directory owners:

• Autofill Forms: Extremely helpful add-on, which is used to fill out forms with one click. It will help you to save time when you submit your directory to other directories. It’s worth noticing that it can be used to switch between several sets of rules.

• RankQues SEO Toolbar: Provides you an access to more than 30 intuitive SEO tools. Don’t forget that once you install the SEO Toolbar you are only one or two clicks away from carrying out most of your day to day SEO.

• TimeTracker: Do you spend too much time on working on your directory? Don’t have a life? Keep track of how much you spend time with your directory by using TimeTracker.

• LinkCounter: The add-on shows a number of links on a page and frames. It also groups and highlights them by type. Moreover, it’s capable of counting various types of links, such as empty, files, targets, anchors, feeds and javascripts.

• Lori: Lets you know how long it takes to load your directory. Very useful since it will help you in profiling and optimizing your directory.

• Screengrab!: Helps you to save web pages even faster as an image. Use it for capturing traffic graphs, interesting web directories and much more.

• Page validator: Can validate your directory by using the W3C Markup Validation Service. A validated directory will be loaded faster, viewed better and search engines will be able to crawl it.

• ColorZilla: Helps you to get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. Use it when you design new logo or template for your directory.

• SeoQuake: This tool is aimed primarily at helping web masters who deal with search engine optimization and internet promotion of web sites. Furthermore, it allows you to obtain and investigate many important SEO parameters, which will help you in optimizing your own directory.

• Active Whois: Tells you about any web site owner and its host server with a click of a button.

• TinyUrl Creator: It takes a long URL as input, and gives you a short URL to use in it’s place. Extremmely useful when you want to share google search results with your friends or when you want to enter url that has less symbols in your forum signature.

• KGen: Allows you to see what keywords are strong on visited web page. Than, you can retrieve them for SEO.

• LinkChecker: Checks the validity of links on any webpage. Extremely helpful in determining what links are linking somewhere in a directory.

• CSS validator: Validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator and opens results in a new tab. Use it to determine if css is used correctly in your directory.

• Niche Watch Tool: Provides information required to beat your competitor in serps. Moreover, it gives you backlinks number, indexed pages, keyword occurrences on the page, page rank, and all other relative information.

• Font Finder: Gets all CSS styles of selected text in Firefox for you. Really useful when you design your directory template.

• MeasureIt: Determines how big a logo is on someone’s directory or other design related features.

• RSS validator: Validates a site using the W3C RSS Validator. Test if you rss feeds are working properly.

Please remember not to use all of them at the same time since it will overload your computer and Firefox.