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Firefox is one of the most versatile browsers out there due to the availability of add-ons. I’ve collected the best add-ons for SEO that I’ve found so far. If you know anymore that’d be good to include, then let me know and I’ll add them to the post.

Please note: Some of these add-ons functions overlap. It’s up to you to decide if you’d rather just download one or two of these add-ons or have them all.

RankQuest SEO Toolbar

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1471

iWEBTOOL Webmaster’s Toolbar

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5171

KGen

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4788

MetaTags

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1668

SearchStatus

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/321

SeoQuake

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3036

One of the hardest things to do when starting a new site is choosing a domain name. It takes forever to check if a name is available, it’s difficult thinking up word combinations and you run the risk of someone stealing a good name when you manage to come up with one!

If you’ve ever been frustrated with these issues, then you’ll love Bustaname!

This cool site includes a word combiner that tries every combination of your entered words and lets you know what domains are available. It also produces alternative suggestions to your entered words.

You can also try more possibilities by adding prefixes (i, e, my and busta) and suffixes (ly, ster, let) as well as pluralizing nouns (car to cars) and dropping the last vowel (flicker to flickr).

This is a very useful site and I definitely see myself visiting every time I start a new site! Check it out at www.bustaname.com

One of the necessities of building sites is obviously web hosting. To help you out when starting out, I’ve made a list of hosting sites that give you free hosting, a sub-domain as well as support for PHP and MySQL.

Wicked Zone

File space: 150 MB.
Bandwidth: 4 GB.

http://www.wickedzone.net/signup.html

110MB

File space: 2 GB.

Bandwidth: 100 GB.

http://www.110mb.com

Awardspace

File space: 200 MB.

Bandwidth: 5 GB.

http://www.awardspace.com/signup.html

KwikPHP

File space: 350 MB.

Bandwidth: 6 GB.

http://www.kwikphp.net

XLPHP

File space: 250 MB.

Bandwidth: 6 GB.

http://www.xlphp.org

Pro-PHP

File space: 250 MB.

Bandwidth: 6 GB.

http://www.pro-php.org

Net-fast

File space: 200 MB.

Bandwidth: 6 GB.

http://www.net-fast.org

Sprinterweb

File space: 300 MB.

Bandwidth: 6 GB.

http://www.sprinterweb.org

Freehostia

File space: 250 MB.

Bandwidth: 5 GB.

http://www.freehostia.com/free_hosting.html

Pro-hosts

File space: 300 MB.

Bandwidth: 6 GB.

http://www.pro-hosts.org

Myplacehost

File space: 350 MB.

Bandwidth: 6 GB.

http://www.myplacehost.net

One of the quickest ways to make your blog known by the blogosphere is by pinging blog search engines and aggregators such as Technorati, IceRocket and Syndic8. What you could do is go to visit each individual site and ping them directly whenever you update your blog. But here’s a faster way to do that…

Go to Autopinger and Pingomatic and ping ALL of them at once. These sites send a ping to loads of major and minor blog authority sites including Technorati, Syndic8, Feedburner, NewsGator and many other sites including podcasting and niche blogospheres.