What are Chrome extensions?
Extension is a small plugin that you can add to your browser on the right-hand side of your browser toolbar. You can imagine that extension are like an app you can find in your AppStore, which is kind of cool. You can go directly to Chrome Web Store to find all chrome extensions available today.
Why Use Chrome extensions?
Extensions are used to block ads on Web pages, translate text from one language to another, or add pages to a third-party bookmark service such as the google chrome extensions below.
Which Chrome extensions to be used?
You will find 10 FREE marvelous extensions for your chrome browser.
If you wish to add all those amazing extensions, don’t forget that you can manage all your chrome extension through the following link: chrome://extensions/
1. Pick Color from Page
When you browse online, have you ever found a great website and liked the design? What about the color used?
That’s when you use the extension pick color from page which permits you to get the RGB of each color of the page including the logo if you wish.
Extension « Pick Color from Page »
Description: « An eye-dropper & color-picker tool that allows you to select color values from webpages. »
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorpick-eyedropper/ohcpnigalekghcmgcdcenkpelffpdolg?hl=fr
2. Tube Buddy
Definitely the BEST extensions if you manage a youtube channel because it helps you to do:
– Bulk tools cards
– Analytics tools
– Annotation thumbnails
– and much more.. go directly on their website to discover their freemium version: https://www.tubebuddy.com/
Also, it’s great when you go on Youtube because it will highlight the tags, the views, mentions, social figures, and best practices
Extension « Tube Buddy »
Description: « YouTube video optimization (video SEO) and YouTube channel management built for YouTube creators and businesses. »
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorpick-eyedropper/ohcpnigalekghcmgcdcenkpelffpdolg?hl=fr
3. Darker Reader
If you are spending a lot of time in front of your computer or on the go with your mobile phone, this chrome extension is what you need. You can turn any websites on dark mode which helps your eyes rest!
Try it and let me know your thoughts.
Extension Darker Reader
Description: « Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night and daily browsing. »
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorpick-eyedropper/ohcpnigalekghcmgcdcenkpelffpdolg?hl=en
4. Google Tag Assistant
Interesting tool when you are looking at your website and want to make sure your pixels are properly implemented by your developer or by yourself.
Google Tag Assistant
Description: « Tag Assistant helps to troubleshoot installation of various Google tags including Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and more. »
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorpick-eyedropper/ohcpnigalekghcmgcdcenkpelffpdolg?hl=en
5. FireShot Capture
When you browse online or you need to do a benchmark and you see some amazing websites; take a screenshot!
You can copy/paste easily to your presentation or your document even download the file in pdf or .png on your computer.
Last but not least, you can decide whether you capture part of the page, the entire page or only the visible part of the page.
Enjoy screenshotting!
FireShot
Description: « Take FULL webpage screenshots. Capture, edit and save them to PDF/JPEG/GIF/PNG, upload, print, send to OneNote, clipboard or email.«
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorpick-eyedropper/ohcpnigalekghcmgcdcenkpelffpdolg?hl=en
6. BuiltWith
Learn from the best websites!!
If you ask yourself what are the tools Amazon.com or any other websites in the world are using. The extension of builtwith is an excellent start in order to benchmark the technical part of any websites. If you are a marketer, you will know what tag manager they are using, what media pixel is implementing.
Useful to gain some time and avoid using the wrong tool.
BuiltWith
Description: « Take FULL webpage screenshots. Capture, edit and save them to PDF/JPEG/GIF/PNG, upload, print, send to OneNote, clipboard or email.«
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorpick-eyedropper/ohcpnigalekghcmgcdcenkpelffpdolg?hl=en
7. Grammarly for Chrome
Never make English language mistakes!!
I use Grammarly to write all my correspondence through emails, write blog comments or even write this post about extensions because I am 100% sure, it would be proper English. I can’t help thinking that it’s even better than Microsoft Word document as this extension find some errors that are not mentioned elsewhere.
Grammarly
Description: « From grammar and spelling to style and tone, Grammarly helps you eliminate writing errors and find the perfect words to express yourself. «
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorpick-eyedropper/ohcpnigalekghcmgcdcenkpelffpdolg?hl=en
8. Hunter
You can find any contact-email you want!!
Hunter.io chrome extension is fabulous to find any email you wish from all websites of the world!
I use the extension on frenchtech.nl and it worked very well to find 2 emails and couple additional details for each email.
Try hunter.io
Hunter
Description: « With Hunter for Chrome, you can immediately find who to contact when you visit a website. Along with the email addresses, you can get the names, job titles, social networks and phone numbers. All the data has public sources detailed in the search results. «
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorpick-eyedropper/ohcpnigalekghcmgcdcenkpelffpdolg?hl=en
9. Meta SEO Inspector
Improve your SEO !!
SEO Inspector is a great Search Engine Optimization to improve not only your website but also to prioritize your SEO projects.
Moreover, you can also check out other websites to know how they are doing on an SEO standpoint.
Meta SEO Inspector
Description: « This extension is mainly aimed at web developers that need to verify the HTML of their site to follow the Webmasters’ Google Guidelines, but even to who is curious about any page contents that are usually not visible, but can reveal interesting site properties «
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorpick-eyedropper/ohcpnigalekghcmgcdcenkpelffpdolg?hl=en
10. Check My Links
Improve your SEO !!
It’s an important part of your SEO strategy: YOUR LINKS!!
Everybody is focusing on the content but links are as important as your content: internal and external are the key to a good ranking on the different search engines in order to give you confirm you’re legitimate but not only.
Check My Links
Description: « Check My Links is a link checker that crawls through your webpage and looks for broken links »
Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorpick-eyedropper/ohcpnigalekghcmgcdcenkpelffpdolg?hl=en
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