We think Google Chrome is pretty slick these days. It loads pages faster than Firefox, Safari and IE no doubt. And, as far as add-ons and extensions go, it has pulled ahead of our longtime favorite, Firefox. Remember the browser wars of old? Netscape Navigator versus Internet Explorer… my how web browsers have changed since then.

The following list consists of twenty of our favorite Google Chrome Extensions. If you are just here for Chrome SEO Extensions, they are the last five on the list.

20 of Our Favorite Google Chrome Extensions

Add-This

Quickly share your new post to social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and more. Analytics included. Options for embedding social sharing buttons on websites and WordPress.

Bitly

Shorten, share and track links, complete with link analytics.

Feedly

An intuitive way to read and share blogs, feeds and even Google Reader.

Google Voice

Message notifications and quick access to Google Voice features.

Google+ Notifications

Receive and respond to Google+ notifications from your web browser.

Klout

Adds Klout stats to your Twitter web timeline.

Music Plus for Google Music

Adds controls, notifications, Last.fm support, downloading, global keyboard shortcuts and lyrics to Google Music.

Picnik

Quick and dirty image editing on the fly.

PostRank

Enhances Google Reader with PostRank (owned by Google) data.

Rapportive

Gmail on social steroids. Connect with people you already know on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and more through the familier Gmail interface.

Screen Capture

Easy as pie screen capture and annotation tool.

Search by Image

Search Google by using images.

StumbleUpon

A great extension and toolbar from an oldie but goodie.

TinyEye Reverse Image Search

Did someone jack your latest profile pic? Content theft? Search for an image on the web.

TweetDeck

The most awesome version of TweetDeck… unified multi-account streams (oh my!). Just don’t download the ipad version… blech!

Chrome SEO Extensions

WooRank SEO and Website Analysis

Auto SEO website tool featuring SEO analysis, traffic estimation, Alexa rank, Compete rank, keyphrases analysis, indexed pages in Google and Yahoo!, title and URL analysis and much more.

SEO for Chrome

Displays SEO related information about the website you are currently visiting. Featuring backlinks, social media stats, pages indexed, traffic stats, PPC (+ orgainc) stats and keyphrase research tool.

SEO SERP Workbench

Find out where your website or blog ranks in Google. Track and monitor your website and your competitors search engine (un-personalized) keyphrase rankings. Includes ranking change notifications.

SEO Site Tools

Comprehensive SEO tool that pulls in metrics from a multitude of sources about the website you are viewing. It includes social media reactions, and enhances web based versions of Google Webmaster Tools and Site Explorer. Sources utilized include SEOmoz, Google PageRank, Quanticast, Dmoz, Majestic SEO, Alexa, SEM Rush and Compete.com.

SEO Status

Simple. Fast. Lightweight. Quickly displays the Google PageRank and Alexa Rank of the current website you are on.

20 Awesome Google Chrome Extensions listing provided by Boise SEO and PPC Internet Marketing Company, Jtree.net.

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Do you use Google Analytics for your business, website or blog? How about for SEO, PPC or Social Media Optimization (SMO)? Well then – good news friend! An upgraded version of Google Analytics is in the works.

The new beta version of Google Analytics was debuted at GAUGE 2011 in San Francisco yesterday. Initial reactions have been quite favorable, as many long awaited and talked about features were part of the new offering.

The upgrade to Google Analytics is quite dramatic in comparison to other recently upgraded Google products, like AdWords and AdSense.

If you’d like to take a peek yourself, and be considered for the Google Analytics beta, sign up here.

If you think that’s exciting and you are into SEO – take a look at our SEO Monitoring and Reporting Application. Track keyphrase rankings, monitor backlinks, competitors, pages indexed and more!

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It has been over a year since Google started personalizing your search results regardless of if you are signed-in to your Google account.

Here’s a holiday SEO hat-tip to help you find out where your website or blog really ranks by temporarily turning Google personalized search results off.

Add &pws=0 at the end of a Google search URL in your web browser’s address bar.

For example:

If you are searching for “boise internet marketing” your URL will look something like this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=boise+internet+marketing

If it doesn’t – modify it to match-up, then add &pws=0 to the end of the URL so your URL looks like this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=boise+internet+marketing&pws=0

The latter will temporarily return results unaffected by Google personalized search, granting you a clearer viewpoint of how your website or blog ranks without Google ‘personalizing’ your results. Keep in mind that you will need to do this for each search performed.

Happy Holidays!

Backlinks are linky votes of confidence, and are core to any serious SEO campaign. Backlinks represent links from other websites that point to your site, and are very important in regard to how well your website or blog ranks in the search engines. The more quality backlinks a site has translates into better search engine rankings… in a nutshell.

Backlink Intel

• Google typically only reveals LESS THAN 1% of the actual backlinks for your site that they are giving you credit for.
• Yahoo! typically only reveals LESS THAN 5% of the actual backinks for your site.

The main reason why backlink sources are not revealed is simple; Blackhat SEOs can use that information for shady intentions.  All the more reason to hire a professional SEO; which have the tools to track backlinks beyond what is readily available to the general public, and experience to formulate viable Off-Page SEO strategy. Plus, we tend to have a ‘knack’ for knowing all of the good places to get ‘juicy’ backlinks.

Backlink Checker Tool

Curious about who’s linking to your website or blog? Use the backlink checker tool below to find out. Note: Pay close attention to the PageRank of backlink locations (URLs), this is a quality indicator of the site linking to you. Generally speaking, you want backlinks from websites that have a higher PageRank than your own site or blog. You can check your PageRank here.

Tip! Enter your competitor’s website address to find out where they are getting backlinks from.

Tip! Enter your Twitter, YouTube, Facebook Fan Page or other social network profile URL to find out if people are linking to you.

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Interested in Off-Page SEO (aka acquiring quality backlinks)? Contact us with questions or to get started!

Everyone claims to be an SEO these days. Web design/development companies and consultants are hastily adding it to their service roster, despite having any real clue as to what SEO really is. Marketing and Brand Management agencies have done the same, adopting a technology they know little about.

That leaves the SEOs themselves… the consultants and companies fully devoted to SEO, PPC and Social Marketing. Many of which drop the ball on keyphrase targeting, monitoring and/or reporting. SEO is so much more than just marketing. It requires a fundamental understanding of the technology that powers the web.

I recently posted about how to hire an SEO that can actually rank on SEOBoise.com. Consider reading it if you have even the slightest interest in SEO, especially if you or your company is considering hiring an SEO.

The 6 rules below are designed to help thin the crowd when searching for a knowledgeable SEO.

1. Google Them.
2. Portfolio Availability.
3. Under the Hood Optimization.
4. Backlinks. Backlinks. Backlinks.
5. Competing Clients.
6. Who Does What.

Click here to read the complete post >

Related: Three Free Web-Based SEO Tools to Evaluate and Compare Websites (and SEOs)

Josh (the post author) is the founder of and consultant for Jtree.net; a Boise, Idaho based SEO, PPC and Social Internet Marketing consulting firm that has provided services to over 50 companies and agencies over the last 10 years.

Consider it a budding SEO learning center. In fact, the latest SEOBoise.com post deals with how to avoid duplicate content penalties.

Best, Jtree.net

And, when I say cheap, I mean free.

There is a plethora of free, web-based tools out there these days. Some quality, some not so quality. With that in mind, I thought I would focus on one particular offering which provides Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing information to site and blog owners.

Compete offers a set of both free and paid tools aimed at providing valuable Internet Marketing information to site and blog operators. It matters not if you are a SEO pro or just someone with a vested interest, Compete is easy to use and understand.

Compete is compromised of three primary areas; Site, Search and Referral Analytics.

Site Analytics

The core Compete service; focused on traffic history and competitive analytics. Plug in your competitors URLs and see how they stack up to your website.

Here’s the unique visitors graph; comparing myspace.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, delicious.com and linkedin.com:

Here’s a look at the average stay time (in minutes) – look at myspace plummet!

Compete also provides additional graphs, a list of top keywords that drive traffic to each of the sites being compared.

Search Analytics

In addition to Site Analytics, Compete offers a handy set of analytical search tools which track keywords that send you traffic, identify which sites/blogs are getting the most clicks from a keyword and compare keyword rankings against competitors. In SEO speak, these are important keywords and phrases to pay attention to in both the organic and paid realms.

Referral Analytics

Referral Analytics are just that; aimed at revealing the origins of site traffic; its location, where it’s going and compare the results to that of your competitors. In regard to SEO, the more you know about your traffic, or your competitor’s traffic for that matter, yields higher quality of optimization targeting.

The above information is related to the free SEM/SEO tools offered by Compete. The paid set both expands on functionality, features and options of the already useful free set. Visit Compete

Defined: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

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There are many different types of web-based SEO tools that will generate a quick analysis of a website/blog. These free, basic SEO tools are great for initial observations, but it is important to take note of the high potential for skewed data results. Such is the plight of automated analysis in a world of ever-evolving objectives, rules and Search Engine algorithm updates. Hiccups could even arise due to something as simple as the service not being able to connect to Google or Yahoo!.

Three Free Web-Based SEO Tools

Website Grader

One popular auto-gen website analysis tool is Website Grader. I received a score of 96 when grading Jtree.net. Although some of the information presented is relevant, other parts either contain skewed or omitted data. Overall, a good tool for approximation and benchmarking. Grade a Website

Search Engine Saturation

Compare the number of pages indexed versus that of related websites or competitors in the major search engines. Check SE Saturation

Keyphrase Ranking

Another way to benchmark your own website or blog is to simply type in what you are looking for in a search engine and compare who comes up near the top. This tool simplifies the process: Compare Keyphrase Ranks on Multiple Domains

Comparatively Speaking

The above tools can also be utilized to compare potential SEO/Internet Marketing service providers since they help determine a website’s rank compared to that of another. Which makes them a good fit for analyzing the growing crowd of Internet Marketers.

If you do, this tip will help tweak your tweets in an effort to increase the rank of your site or blog in the search engines based on targeted keywords and phrases. There’s no guarantee as to how much of an effect, if any, this will have. However, my personal tests have yield positive results.

How to Tweet the Long Tail

Step 1. Make sure your targeted keywords/phrases are in the text of the tweet that contain the link.

Step 2. When linking to a blog post or web page in a tweet:

• On the web: try to keep your URL short, you don’t want Twitter’s URL shortening service changing your link. If you need to shorten your URL, use Tweetburner – which saves the original URL and text on the web and shares data with a number of other published resources.
• With a client application: use Twhirl’s built-in URL shortening service Twurl.nl, it saves the original URL to Tweetburner.

Step 3. Syndicate your Twitter feed/stream. This can be accomplished a number of ways; FriendFeed, Jaiku, RSS embedding, WordPress Plug-Ins, Widgets and social networking profiles … for starters.

Note: While Twitter attaches the “nofollow” attribute to links posted directly to a Twitter profile, syndicated links generally DO NOT have “nofollow” attribute tags, hence the elevated potential of increasing link juice.

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Originally Published June 15, 2008