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Project #4: SEO Tool Extension

Project #4: SEO Tool Extension

Peter Thaleikis

Peter Thaleikis

Engineer. Maker. Open Source Fan. Backpacker

by Peter Thaleikis

As part of my journey to become permanently independent from employment and contracting, I need to learn marketing for my side projects. I think that's inevitable. Not too long ago, I've read "a project is 20% building and 80% marketing" somewhere. As it turns out that is very true. SEO and marketing were the top topics for me and Treesukondh in the last months.

I'm still considering myself a newbie and soaking up information on all corners. Routinely, this includes checking (my) websites to see what others are doing, making tweaks, waiting and checking again, etc. Many monotonous steps — often on autopilot. We all have these regular clicks and keyboard actions, we are doing too often. Depending on your job or interests, these steps can sum up over a regular day. One of mine is, to copy URLs of websites into SEO-related tools. These can be my websites as well as websites from others. As this got annoying, I've decided to take a break and built a browser extension to make this easier.

Built on a Sunday morning

As with RandomElon, projects don't need a long prep-phase or even a proper plan. This is especially true if you don't intent to make any money from it. Often the small things, built for yourself are more neat than big planned projects. Let's see if anyone finds it as useful as me and wants to have it 🤔ī¸

Now you can access deep links into the several SEO-related searches and services directly, with one click 😊ī¸

Currently support tools:

The following tools and services are supported at the moment:

If you think an important tool is missing please get in touch 🙏ī¸

What did you build it with?

The extension itself was built with

The website for the SEO Tool extension was built using

No blockchain, crypto magic or special sauce. Just some bytes in a halfway decent order.

Why is the website brown?

As you can see, I'm not a designer. My design skills end at using the color wheel and some other tools. Royalty free images and illustrations are a blessing for me. For the SEO Tool extension I have found a toolkit icon on Pixabay I liked. So I decided to go with a rather uncommon color: brown 💩ī¸

Thanks 🙏ī¸

Special thanks for Treesukondh, who prepare advised me building it and prepared the graphics for the ProductHunt launch, etc.

Thank you also to Bedexp Stock on Pixabay, for providing the icon for the SEO Tool extension.

Update

The project has been sold 🤑ī¸ and heavily reworked. It is much more powerful now. But the Firefox support has also been dropped along the way. The old extension is still up on the Firefox addons store, but the updates probably won't come to to the fox đŸĻŠī¸ Here are more ⌨ī¸ SEO browser extensions for your convenience.

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