• On-page optimisation is a crucial area of SEO. Lucky for everyone doing SEO projects, there's a range of tools on offer to help us.
• Browser extensions from Buzz Sumo, SEO Quake and Mangools boost your on-page SEO and reveal your competitors’ data.
• Don’t forget your image alt tags, which give more opportunities to add descriptive and highly targeted keywords.
• We've picked the 5 best SEO extensions and tools to help you tighten up your optimisation and rank higher amongst your competitors. 

SEO is an indispensable part of online selling. Over time, search engines will reward brands that are continuously improving their SEO. SEO is also another way for small business websites to compete with the big guy.

To rank higher and give clarity to users, you must raise your on-page SEO game, which covers your page content and HTML content or metadata. There are SEO tools and extensions that can help you analyse your competitors’ web pages and backlinks to give you a better idea of where you can improve.

In this article, we will look at 5 different extensions or apps that can boost your discoverability and hopefully, click-throughs.

What are the top SEO Chrome extensions for on-page SEO?

The best SEO Chrome extensions to improve your on-page SEO are:

1. BuzzSumo
2. SEO meta tags and templates
3. SEOquake
4. Mangools
5. Image alt tags extension

These extensions and tools not only help your Google ranking, but are configured to update your pages according to the latest Google updates.

1. BuzzSumo Extension

BuzzSumo lets you share content and gives you an insight into the most shared or popular content right now. Using this, you can detect patterns of bestselling content and understand why they go viral.

The Buzz Sumo Chrome extension lets you see the shares of a particular page easily across popular sites and social media platforms. You can save the page to a project for content creation.

The Buzz Sumo software also shows you the influencers in your industry, giving you insight into who you can work with and access to the type of content that sells well.

2. SEO meta tags and templates

One of the key elements of on-page SEO are meta tags which tell Google what the page is about. Meta tags cover page titles, meta descriptions, and meta keywords that solidify your content further.

Popular content management systems usually come with features to edit and add meta tags. Alternatively, there are many apps or extensions that help you edit meta tags on platforms such as WordPress and Magento.

3. SEOquake

The SEOquake Chrome extension allows you to view key SEO metrics, run an SEO audit on a webpage and save the data for further analysis. You get data such as Google Index, Bing Index, Alexa rank, visitors, shares and backlinks analysis.

Studying these data from your competitors and similar brands in the industry will open up your eyes and give you better ideas on how you can enhance your on-page SEO to rank higher.  

4. Mangools SEO Extension

Available for Chrome and Firefox, the Mangools SEO extension is a powerful tool to evaluate a domain’s SEO ranking, keywords, backlinks and SEO performance such as page loading time. Find backlink opportunities, study successful meta data content, and discover new keywords you should be ranking for when you study your competitors’ websites. You will need a Mangools account to use this free extension.

5. Image Alt tags extension

The alt tag is an important part of your on-page SEO, especially those pages with many images. While mostly ignored by visitors, search engines place high importance on these alt tags. They are a great way to add more descriptive keywords that are important to your site. Browse through Chrome’s extensive list of extensions to start checking your site’s alt tags and improve their SEO with the right keywords.

Improving your on-page SEO is one of the quickest ways to gain a higher ranking without investing a lot of money or time. If in doubt, speak or hire an SEO agency or digital marketing expert to help you out.