I’ve been transitioning into using Google’s Chrome browser as my regular browser and using Firefox for specific things like SEO projects.  Firefox is a great browser with all of its plug-ins, but, it it’s gotten a bit clunky over several releases and I don’t like waiting on my applications to catch up to me.  Chrome is light, fast and I like that the entire browser won’t crash if a particular tab gets hung-up on a process.  One of my biggest peeves about Chrome was that it didn’t have the Google Toolbar…which seemed like a no-brainer to me!

Finally, Google released the Chrome SEO Extension! Now, its not the most perfect SEO tool out there, but, it definitely provides enough info to make the Chrome transition a lot easier.  Here are some features:

• Shows you the Pages Indexed in Ask, Bing, Google and MajesticSEO.  Clicking ‘Show More’ brings up Baidu and Yandex which also display ‘Coming Soon’
• Backlinks in Alexa, Google, MajesticSEO, Majestic SEO( Unique Domains), Open Site Explorer, Yahoo (site wide) and Yahoo (This URL)
• Bookmarks in Delicious, Digg, DMOZ and StumbleUpon
• Traffic and Rank in Alexa Rank, Compete, Google Ad Planner, Google PageRank, Quantcast and Technorati
• Cached pages in Archive.org, CoralCDN, Google and WebCite
• On Site shows you if thre’s a sitemap and robots file
• Domain Details includes DNS, IP Address, Serve Location and Whois

There’s also the Google Keyword Tool built in! You can also see NoFollow links and pop out the extension so you can use it independently of the browser.  This extension definitely makes Chrome a more usable browser for SEO professionals and for ecommerce professionals who want some insight into the competition.