25+ Best Chrome Extensions For Bloggers

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Blogging is not easy. You have to create a blog and market it whole-heartedly. To succeed in blogging, you have to invest lots of time and effort. But there are several ways to minimize the time and effort.

Chrome extensions are one of the best ways to make your blogging journey easy as these tools allow you to perform complex and tedious tasks in half of the time it takes.

In this article, I will discuss popular Chrome extensions for blogging that includes almost every task like keyword research, productivity tool, SEO optimization, and website analysis.

Here are the best Chrome extensions for bloggers:

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Top Chrome Extensions for Bloggers

Grammarly

Grammarly is an online writing assistant tool that offers a free Chrome extension. It is the best extension for bloggers who make mistakes while writing content.

Related: How To Find Duplicate Content?

From spelling, punctuation, styling, and tone, Grammarly helps you with every mistake you make in your content. It comes with both free and paid subscriptions, the free plan is good enough to start for beginners and if you are an advanced blogger then you can go for a paid plan that costs $12 a month.

Grammarly works with most of the websites where you write like Google Docs, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress, and thousands of other websites that contain text fields.

MozBar

MozBar is a very useful Chrome extension for bloggers that is provided by Moz. After installing MozBar, it displays DA (Domain Authority), PA (Page Authority), backlinks, and spam scores of the website you visit.

It also displays the metrics on every website listing when you search for something on Google like the image below. You can also export results in a CSV file.

Apart from DA and PA, MozBar also helps you in page analysis, backlinks, and page optimization. On every website you visit, you will get these options as shown in the image below.

SEOquake

SEOquake is an all-in-one powerful SEO toolkit that offers a complete analysis of any website. It is installed by over 700k users on Chrome.

By using SEOquake, you can see various SEO metrics like:

Google, Bing, and Yahoo index
Number of backlinks and traffic (free and paid)
Webarchive age
Alexa and SEMrush rank
Social statistics like Facebook, Pinterest, and LinkedIn
Display advertising

For more analysis like traffic and backlinks, you can connect your SEMrush with SEOquake and check detailed reports.

Related: SEMrush Review

It also offers advanced SERP features in which you will see all the metrics for every website on search results as shown in the image below.

ColorPick EyeDropper

ColorPick EyeDropper is a very easy-to-use extension that allows users to select colors from any webpages. Anyone who is looking for a quick color picker can install it on their Chrome browser.

It supports Hex, RGB, and HSL color codes. Also, ColorPick EyeDropper allows users to add any color to the “color history” for future use. With Snap Mode, you can easily pick colors from the snapshot of the web page.

StayFocused

If you easily get distracted while working then StayFocused is the only extension for you. It limits the time you spend on various sites that increase your productivity.

The working of StayFocused is very simple like you have allocated some time to a website, let’s say Facebook, so once the allotted time is over then the site will be automatically blocked and inaccessible for the whole day.

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By using it, you can block almost every site such as entire website subdomains, and even specific URLs or pages.

Hunter

Hunter is a powerful email finder. It also offers a useful Chrome extension by which you can find email addresses from anywhere on the internet.

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With Hunter, you can find the email addresses of any person on the visited website. Not only emails, but you can also get other contact data such as name, social profiles, job titles, and even phone numbers.

You can find emails by using two methods that are: via domain name or direct name of the person. Also, you are allowed to create a list of contacts that you can further use in your email marketing campaigns.

SimilarWeb

Want to know how much traffic your competitor’s website is getting per month? If yes, then SimilarWeb can help you. It is a Chrome extension that is trusted by millions of users to check website traffic.

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Not only website traffic, but you can also check other useful metrics including global rank, country rank, business category, bounce rate, pages per visit, avg. visit duration, top 5 countries, and traffic sources.

WP Hive

WP Hive is a great plugin for bloggers who uses WordPress. It helps you know which plugin is good for your website. It tests the plugin and offers various insights like PHP errors, memory usage, and WordPress versions compatibility.

To check the plugin insights, you need to visit the plugin page on WordPress.org. Once you open the plugin page, you can see the insights on the right side as shown in the image below.

You can click on “More Insights” to know more tests insights and details.

You can also compare two plugins by clicking on the “Compare Plugin” button. You simply need to enter plugin names and the extension will show you the compare results.

FontFinder

Like a color picker, FontFinder is a font picker Chrome extension. By using it, you can inspect fonts from any web page over the web.

Not only fonts, but you can also get other various information like font color, background color, font family, font size, line height, line alignments, font-weight, element type, and CSS class and ID.

Mailtrack

With over a million downloads, Maitrack is a very powerful tool that every blogger should install on their Chrome browser.

It is an email tracking tool for Gmail that adds checkmarks (✓✓) to your emails. By using Maitrack, you can find whether your emails have been sent, read, or opened by the recipients. Also, you can track how many times your email opened. It is a very good tool that saves lots of your time. For example, you don’t need to ask your colleagues whether your email has been received or to read your emails.

Keywords Everywhere

As a blogger, you must have to do lots of keyword research and Keywords Everywhere is a good keywords research Chrome extension that you must install.

By using it, you can find lots of related keywords, people also ask for keywords and long-tail keywords. Apart from it, you also get keywords search volume, CPC, and competition.

Keywords Everywhere also display estimated organic monthly traffic and the number of ranking keywords of every website on search results.

Not only Google, but it also supports other platforms like YouTube, Instagram (hashtag generator), and Amazon.

Ubersuggest

Ubersuggest is a keyword research and SEO tool. It also offers an all-in-one SEO extension for Chrome that helps you in every aspect of SEO including keywords research, backlinks, and social.

By using it, you can check keywords search volume, SEO difficulty, paid difficulty, CPC, search clicks, and also searcher’s age.

On SERP, for every website, Ubersuggest displays domain authority, estimated traffic, Facebook and Pinterest shares, and also the number of backlinks that you can even export to a CSV file.

It is also very helpful for keyword research as you get tons of related keyword suggestions according to the country that you have selected.

Keyword Surfer

Keyword Surfer is the best alternative to the Keywords Everywhere extension. Both work the same, but Keyword Surfer is unlimited free and offers additional features.

Related: SEO Keyword Research Guide

For every search, you will discover keywords volume, CPC, keyword ideas with similar scores. You can get keyword ideas for various countries, just switch from the dropdown menu.

Check My Links

Check My Links is a link checker Chrome extension that crawls the whole webpage and finds broken links.

By using this extension, you can easily find which links are working and which are not on any webpage. You can also copy all the bad or broken links to your clipboard for further use. The bad links are shown in red and active links are in green color.

Alexa Traffic Rank

Alexa Traffic Rank is a very simple extension that allows users to check the Alexa rank of any website over the web.

As you can see in the above image, apart from just ranking, we also have some extra information like similar sites, country rank, backlinks, and related keywords.

Related: Alexa SEO: Complete Guide

Multiple Tabs Search

Are you working with hundreds of URLs and tired of opening them one by one on the browser? If yes, then Multiple Tabs Search is here to help you.

It is a free Chrome extension that allows users to open multiple URLs on a separate tab on Chrome. Not only URLs but you can also search multiple queries.

It allows several useful configurations such as adding extra parameters like (site:) with each line, or adding https:// before all the URLs. You also have an option to remove YouTube, SoundCloud, Facebook, iTunes, and other sites from the search results.

BuzzSumo

BuzzSumo is a free Chrome extension that lets you check social media share counts and social media engagement data for the page you visit on your web browser.

By using the BuzzSumo extension, you can Twitter share, check the number of backlinks, check the most shared content of the website, top content, and you can also share content on social media like Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter.

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Redirect Path

Redirect Path is a website redirect checker SEO tool for Chrome. By using it, you can easily analyze website URLs and find different redirects.

The extension flags various HTTP status codes including 301, 302, 404, and 500 codes.

For each redirect or HTTP status code, it shows you additional data like IP address, cache date, server, content type, and language.

SEO META in 1 CLICK

SEO META in 1 CLICK is a powerful SEO Chrome extension used by lakhs of users to check various SEO information of any website.

By using it, you can find various website metadata or tags including title, description, URL, canonical-tags, meta robots, heading levels, images without ALT tag, open graph tag, Twitter card, and robots.txt.

LastPass

LastPass is a free password manager Chrome extension used by millions of users to manage passwords of various websites.

By using LastPass, you can save your passwords, credit card details, and even addresses. Also, by saving these details, you don’t need to fill the forms as they will be filled automatically.

Tag Assistant Legacy

Tag Assistant Legacy is a Chrome extension provided officially by Google to help users check essential tags on their websites.

It helps you check whether various Google tags are installed properly or not like Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager. The process is very simple, you just need to open the website and click on the Tag Assistant icon from the Chrome extension bar and it will tell you which tag is present and which tag has installation issues.

BuiltWith Technology Profiler

Do you want to check which technology is used by your competitors’ websites or any other site on the web? If yes, here is the BuiltWith Technology Profiler Chrome extension that can help you.

It analyses the website and finds all the technology that the site is using like CMS (Content Management System), plugins, widgets, frameworks, CDN, JavaScript libraries, and advertising platforms.

Lightshot

Lightshot is a great screenshot Chrome extension that comes with an easy-to-use interface to take screenshots of anything on the web.

It allows you to select any area from the webpage and also provides various edit options like pen, line, arrows, rectangle, marker, adding text, changing color, and also undo edits. You can have options to share it on social media, save it to the system, and also print options.

You can also upload the screenshots on the cloud.

Facebook Pixel Helper

Like Google Tag Assistance, Facebook has also offered its own free Chrome extension called Facebook Pixel Helper to check the installation of Facebook pixel codes.

It helps you troubleshoot the implementation of Pixel codes. Simply click on the extension icon available at the Chrome extensions bar and it will tell you whether the code is implemented correctly or not.

Read Aloud

Sometimes we get tired of reading long articles or blog posts and here the Read Aloud Chrome extension helps us.

By using it, you can convert current webpage text into speech with just one click. The best part of the Read Aloud chrome extension is that it supports over 40 languages that means it doesn’t matter from which country you are, convert text into speech in any language you want.

Page Analytics by Google

Page Analytics is a very necessary and important extension for every blogger to see how visitors are interacting with their websites and web pages.

By using it, you can see what your visitors are clicking on web pages, you can also see pageviews, avg. time on page, real-time traffic, bounce rate, and exit rate. You can use these metrics to optimize your website user experience and conversions.

AddToAny

By using AddToAny, you can share anything anywhere on the web. It is a very simple extension that supports various social media platforms.

Use it to share content over Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Email, and even WhatsApp. You just need to click on the AddToAny button and start sharing the content.

You can also share any specific context from the webpage.

SEO Minion

SEO Minion is a great Chrome extension that helps you in various SEO tasks like On-Page SEO, broken link checker, and backlinks analysis.

Related: Free SEO Tools

Use SEO Minion to perform daily SEO activities including:

On-Page SEO
Check Broken Links
Backlinks Analysis
SERP Preview
Heading Checker
Title & Description Checker
HTTP Status Code Checker

Conclusion

I hope all the above Chrome extensions for bloggers will save your precious time and make your life easier. Still, there are thousands of extensions available on the Chrome browser for almost every task. But the above are the most popular and recommended extensions for every blogger.

Did I miss any other important Blogging Chrome extension? Let me know in the comment section.

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