January 9, 2012 by Pam Aungst 17 Comments

8 Chrome Extensions I Can’t Live Without

Do you use Google Chrome? What are your favorite extensions? Here’s a list of the Chrome extensions I can’t live without.

(Don’t know what an extension is or why you would want one? Read this.)

Category: Productivity

Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate

Developer Description: “Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, blur sensitive info, one-click upload to share. Support PNG and shortcuts.”
Why I Love It: SO easy to grab a screenshot, add a note to it, crop it, and share or save it. Literally takes me seconds to do that whole routine.
Click here to add to Chrome

Chrome Time Track

Developer Description: “Simple time tracking aplication for Google Chrome. You can add new tasks, tracking your time on each of them.”
Why I Love It: The multitasking part of my brain likes how I can have multiple projects running at once (because I often do more than one thing at a time), or quickly flip between them all while keeping accurate track of my billable time.
Click here to add to Chrome

Google Reader Notifier

Developer Description: “Displays the number of unread items in your Google Reader account. Clicking can show a preview popup or open your Reader account.”
Why I Love It: I like this one simply because of the quick one-click access it gives me to Google Reader.
Update 6/2013: Google Reader is no more!

Yet Another Google Bookmarks Extension

Developer Description: “YAGBE – Displays Google Bookmarks in a tree. Supports nested labels, searching, sorting, creating, and managing Google Bookmarks.”
Why I Love It: This one I really couldn’t live without. Unfortunately, “Chrome bookmarks are separate from those saved in Google Bookmarks“, so using this extension not only makes it easy to bookmark a site, but it also ensures that I always have my bookmarks with me, even on those (unfortunate) occasions where I’m stuck using another browser.
Click here to add to Chrome

Category: Web Design

Eye Dropper

Developer Description: “Eye Dropper is open source extension which allows you to pick colors from web pages, color picker and your personal color history.”
Why I Love It: Saves me time! I used to have to save an image, open it in Photoshop, and use their eye dropper tool to find out the HTML hex code for the color. Now I just click this extension’s browser button, which is always ready for me (unlike the slow loading Photoshop application).
Click here to add to Chrome

Resolution Test

Developer Description: “An extension for developers to test web pages in different screen resolutions, with an option to define your own resolutions.”
Why I Love It: No more guessing about whether or not I’m keeping content “above the fold”. Two quick clicks and I know for sure. As with the others, this extension saves me time!
Click here to add to Chrome

Category: SEO

SEO & Website Analysis by WooRank

Developer Description: “SEO & Website Analysis by WooRank is an extension for Google Chrome that provides a deep SEO analysis covering more that 50 SEO and Usability criterias.”
Why I Love It: I haven’t found a quicker way to get a quick (yet comprehensive) glimpse at how a site is doing SEO-wise than the WooRank extension.
Click here to add to Chrome

SEO Site Tools

Developer Description: “On-Page / External metrics, Social Media info, PageRank / numbering on Yahoo, Bing, Google SERPs.”
Why I Love It: Okay, okay, I know what everyone says about PageRank nowadays, but I still believe that it is a useful snippet of information and I’m still in the habit of using it as a reference point to be able to tell what “league” a site is in according to Google. This extension shows the PageRank of the current site right on the button at all times, plus it has quick one-click access to some of my other favorite metrics, such as SEMRush statistics.
Click here to add to Chrome

What Are Your Favorite Chrome Extensions?

So those are my favorites. What are yours? I’d love to discover some new ones that I didn’t know I couldn’t live without. 🙂

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Pam Ann Aungst, M.B.A., President of Pam Ann Marketing, LLC, is widely recognized as an expert in search engine optimization (SEO). A self-proclaimed “geek”, Pam began studying computer programming at 6 years old, started creating websites in 1997 and has been working professionally in the field of e-commerce since 2005. Referred to by Sprout Social as a “Twitter Success Story,” she harnessed the power of social media to launch her own agency in 2011. Pam has been interviewed by publications such as Internet Retailer magazine, regularly publishes articles in top internet marketing news sources, and speaks on topics such as SEO and social media. Click here to read her full bio.

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