Customising Firefox for SEO
Further to my previous post about Search Engine Optimizer essentials, there are a couple of additional tweaks you can make to your Firefox installation to make it more useful for SEO purposes.
Custom Stylesheet
- Find your /Profiles/{xyz}.default/chrome/ directory
- Rename userContent-example.css to userContent.css and open it in your favourite text editor
- Add in the following rules:
CSS:
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a[rel~="nofollow"] {
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color: red!important;
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text-decoration: line-through!important;
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}
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h1 {
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border: 1px dotted red ! important;
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}
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h2 {
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border: 1px dotted orange ! important;
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}
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h3 {
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border: 1px dotted green ! important;
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}
This will highlight all 'nofollow' links red with a strike through it, and surround the top 3 heading levels with a colour coded dotted border. This helps to view at a glance what's happening on-page.
Plugins
Not wanting to retread the previous post, here's just a simple dump of the firefox extensions I use - some SEO related, some not...
- Add to Netvibes 0.8.1
- Allow Right-Click 0.4
- Autocomplete Manager 2.3
- British English Dictionary 1.19
- ChromaTabs 2.0
- ColorZilla 1.9
- CookieSwap 0.5.1
- CSSViewer 1.0.2
- CustomizeGoogle 0.72
- Domain Lookup 1.2
- Firebug 1.05
- Firefox Google Bookmarks 0.3
- FireFTP 0.97.2
- Flagfox 3.2.5
- Gmail Manager 0.5.5
- Greasemonkey 0.7.20080121.0
- IE Tab 1.3.3.20070528
- ListZilla 0.8
- Live HTTP Headers 0.14
- My IP Viewer 2.03
- Password Exporter 1.1
- Personas for Firefox 0.9.2
- RankChecker 1.3.9
- RefControl 0.8.11
- Resurrect Pages 1.0.8
- SearchStatus 1.25
- SecurePassword Generator 0.5.4
- SEO For Firefox 2.7.1
- seolinkanalysis 1.0.2
- SEOpen 0.8
- Shareaholic 1.4
- Sheetmusicdirect.com Search Toolbar 0.6
- ShowIP 0.8.08r14b0251
- TableTools 0.24
- Talkback 2.0.0.11
- Torbutton 1.0.4.01
- URL Fixer 1.4.3
- User Agent Switcher 0.6.11
- View Dependencies 0.3.3.0
- Web Developer 1.1.6
Tags: custom stylesheet, Firefox, plugins, SEO