List of useful Chrome extensions to improve your daily life in Digital Marketing
1. Analytical data
Block Yourself from Analytics
This Chrome extension is extremely useful.
It allows you not to disturb the analysis data every time you decide to return to your home page to see if everything is working as expected or to check again the new features you have developed.
An indispensable tool in Growth Hacking so as not to falsify your analysis data.
Block Yourself from Analytics ->
Analytics page (Google)
Want to know how users interact with your website?
The Chrome Page Analytics extension lets you see what they're clicking and what they're not clicking.
Use this information to improve your Growth Hacking process to optimize your website design, improve the user interface, and increase your conversions.
Get page views, unique page views, average time on page, bounce rate, exit rate, and number of active visitors in real time.
You can use Google Analytics date comparison and segmentation tools directly in the extension. You can use this chrome extension for every page you're already following on Google Analytics.
Analytics page ->
Analytics UTM Builder
This extension is an optimized version of Google Analytics URL Builder and allows you to tag URLs to be tracked in Google Analytics campaign reports.
With this tool, you can add UTM parameters to track the overall performance of your campaigns in Google Analytics:
- Automatic reading of the current web address
- Unlimited tag presets for quick tagging
- Force lowercase letters (on/off toggle)
- Bit.ly shortener support
- Automatic generation of the final URL
- Clipboard copy button
- Memorizing your last UTMs (for 60 minutes)
100% confidentiality guaranteed! This extension does not collect your data or browsing activity. Permissions are required for functional reasons.
Analytics UTM Builder ->
2. Content creation
Grammarly
Now you can write clearly and confidently on Webflow, Wordpress, Gmail, and almost anywhere else on the web — including social media. With this Chrome extension, you can always be sure that your writing is smooth and free of spelling mistakes.
Grammarly helps you to rewrite your texts according to the chosen tone (familiar, professional,..) and to make your texts more readable on the Web. An indispensable chrome extension for Growth Hackers.
Grammarly ->
Giphy for Chrome
Who doesn't like GIFs?
Generally, they are funny and allow you to express more by saying less. More importantly, people love to share them. So why not include GIFs in your blog posts? This Chrome extension brings the power of searching GIFs at the speed of light.
Giphy ->
Loom
With Loom, you can record your screen, voice, and face to create an instantly shareable video in less time than it takes to write an email.
Reduce the number of back and forth trips and get your message across in no time.
In particular, the extension allows you to choose what you want to record: the entire screen, a browser tab, a specific software and with your face or not displayed.
Loom ->
3. Growth Engineering
BuiltWith
Not everyone is a developer.
That doesn't mean you can't have a say in the technology you'll use for your landing pages or your website.
If you see something great, you might want to get it or understand how it was designed. That's where this Chrome extension comes in.
By simply pressing the extension, you will have access to a list of all the technologies that the website in question uses.
BuiltWith ->
CSS Peeper
Being a Growth Hacker means being fast and efficient.
I can't afford to devote resources to experimenting with a single homepage.
I have to build it myself.
CSS Peeper gives me what I want : The way to build a “subscribe” button, just like that of a high-converting landing page, effortlessly and quickly.
CSS Peeper ->
Window Resizer
What is the Window Resizer extension?
Wouldn't you like to make sure that your web pages look great on any type of device?
You can test how your websites or landing pages look in different browsers and screen resolutions, from desktop to mobile to tablet.
Window Resizer ->
Clean Master
The Chrome Clean Master extension does exactly what its name says: it cleans your browser cache.
If you're constantly updating a landing page or your website, using this Chrome Extension ensures that you'll see the latest version of what you're building.
Clear Master ->
User-Agent Switcher
When developing your website or landing page, it's important to make sure that everything you've done is compatible with any browser.
This chrome extension allows you to give you a preview of how your page will look on other browsers.
User Agent Switcher ->
EditThisCookie
Cookies are an important part of development.
Deleting, modifying or adding them is a daily task for a web developer, which is why using a cookie manager is important.
This chrome extension allows you to add, delete, edit, search, protect, and block cookies!
EditThisCookie ->
Fake Filler
Do you want to test your forms quickly and easily?
This Chrome Extension will help you do that. Whether it's text boxes, text boxes, radio buttons, or dropdown lists, etc. Fake Filler will populate them with false or fictitious data.
It's a must for developers and growth hackers that work with forms because it avoids the need to manually enter values in fields.
Fake Filler ->
Colorzilla
Do you like the color you see on the web?
You can take a screenshot, save it, open a Photoshop/Paint/most image editors, load the image, select the tool color selection and find the hexadecimal code of the color you are looking for.
Or, you can simply install the ColorZilla chrome extension. With ColorZilla, you can get any color by clicking anything, get the color code, and paste it into another program.
Colorzilla ->
4. Emailing
HubSpot Sales
Hubspot is great and continues to provide one of the best free tools anyone can find.
With HubSpot Sales, you can see all the information about a prospect or customer such as a person's title, their company, their social profiles, but most importantly, your recent conversations with them including if they opened/clicked on the email you sent them.
This extension will display all the information directly from your Gmail account, a great option to Growth Hacking to boost your activities of emailing.
HubSpot Sales ->
Boomerang for Gmail
Boomerang allows you to schedule messages to be sent or resent at a later date.
Write a message now, send it when you want, even if you're not online. Track messages to make sure you get a response, and set reminders right in Gmail. Know if your email has been read thanks to cross-platform reading reminders.
Free yourself from constant interruptions thanks to the “Pause” function, while continuing to be notified of important emails.
Boomerang ->
5. Productivity improvement
StayFocUSD
StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on your work by limiting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites.
Once you've run out of time, the sites you've blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.
It is highly configurable and allows you to block or allow entire sites, specific subdomains, specific paths, specific pages, and even specific content (videos, games, images, forms, etc.).
StayFocUSD ->
Marinara: Assistant Pomodoro
The Pomodoro Technique is one of the best time management tools out there.
To activate a working session with Marinara, simply click on the Chrome extension icon. This shows a 25-minute countdown overlaid on top of the icon.
Once the session is over, an alarm goes off and Marinara redirects you to a new Chrome tab asking if you want to start a short 5-minute break, which once activated will also appear on the icon.
Marinara ->
RescueTime
RescueTime keeps track of how much time you spend in the active tab or in a specific Chrome window.
This gives you a clear idea of what you've been doing all day, allowing you to effectively manage your digital life.
RescueTime automatically ranks the sites you visit. It also rates them on a scale of”Very productive“to”Very distracting“.
So you'll never have to wonder where you spent your whole day again.
RescueTime ->
Toggl
Whether you are a Growth Manager or a Growth Hacker, it's good to know how long it takes for something to be done.
This type of data is needed when you need to plan your work schedule, and luckily for all of us, theChrome extension Toggl integrates with most existing project management tools. (For my part, I use it with the tool Clickup)
Toggl ->
Extension Manager
What is the Extension Manager extension?
Chrome extensions are useful, addictive, and also hinder your browser speed. It is a fact. The irony is that there's another Chrome extension out there to handle all this extension craziness.
Because yes, having too many extensions can slow down your browser and your computer. Using ExtensionManager, you can enable and disable certain extensions and remove unnecessary ones in one click.
Extension Manager ->
Better-Onetab
Sorting and grouping tabs is very useful.
This extension is Open Source unlike OneTab which is only very rarely updated.
Better-Onetab can help you store the tabs you have open to free up your resources and eliminate clutter.
Similarly, you can also use “pin list” to keep a list that won't be deleted, set the title of a list, or change the order of tabs. You can even set the color of a list with the new version.
Better-OneTab ->
6. SEO
MozBar
With mozBar, you can access important SEO metrics when browsing the web, create custom searches, see how difficult a keyword is ranking, show social metrics, and a ton of other things. for growth hackers and SEO experts.
Here are some of the functions offered by this Growth Hacking Chrome Extension :
- Create custom searches by engine, country, region, or city.
- Quickly assess the authority of the page and the domain authority of a site or page.
- Access and compare link metrics between pages while viewing any SERP.
- Find and highlight keywords on a page and differentiate links by type: Followed, Unfollowed, External, or Internal.
- Expose page elements, general attributes, markup, and HTTP status.
- Export the details of your search engine results page (SERP) analysis to a CSV file.
In short, in Growth Hacking we love MOZ. It's just powerful.
MozBar ->
Majestic Backlink Analyzer
This super backlink analyzer offered by Majestic offers you a quick way to see the power of any web page based on its backlink database.
Majestic explores the entire web and does not rely on any other third party application to get the data. View the Trust Flow™ or Citation Flow score for any page, as well as information about the number of domains and URLs linked to it.
Information provided at no charge includes: Link Profile charts, the number of links at the URL, subdomain, and root domain level, and Flow Metrics scores from 0 to 100 for the pages you visit (speed limits apply).
A Growth Hacking Chrome extension that's more than useful!
Majestic Backlink Analyzer ->
Open SEO stats
An SEO-focused Chrome extension to access Google, Alexa, Compete Rank, and Quantcast Rank of any web page.
Bonus: it gives information on backlinks, indexed pages, cached pages, social networks, Whois, Geo IP location, etc.
Open SEO stats ->
Check My Links
Check My Links is an extension developed primarily for web designers, developers, and Growth Hackers.
When editing a web page that has a lot of links, wouldn't it be practical to be able to quickly check that all the links on the page are working properly? That's where “Check My Links” comes in.
Check My Links” quickly finds all the links on a web page and checks them for you. It highlights which are valid and which are broken, it's as simple as that.
Check My Links ->
7. Data Collection (Web Scraping)
FindThatLead
Find all the emails you need on LinkedIn and websites. Reach out to decision makers, expand your network, and grow your business.
Go from looking for a lead ➜ to checking their email ➜ and sending a direct message - without ever closing your browser!
To get emails from anyone, all you need is their name and the name of the company they work for.
With the free Chrome extension, use the magic of Growth Hacking to export your new leads to mailing lists and build email campaigns for develop your business.
FindThatLead ->
Email Auto Extractor
This Chrome Extension is really easy. All you have to do is go through a given page and gather all the email addresses that it contains.
Simple and effective. However, it does not yet work with AJAX pages. As for web scraping, if you are looking for more advanced work, you can consult this article where I list the best tools for extracting data from the web.
Email Auto Extractor ->
WebScraper
One of the tools I use the most to gather data on the web.
This web data extraction tool has a simple “point and click” interface.
It is a free and easy to use tool, the ability to extract thousands of data from a website only takes a few minutes of setting up the web scraper.
Web Scraper uses a structure composed of selectors, which tell the scraper how to navigate the target site and gather data.
Thanks to this structure, extracting data from modern and dynamic websites such as Amazon, Tripadvisor, eBay, as well as lesser-known sites, is effortless.
WebScraper ->
Phantombuster
Phantombuster is the favorite weapon of Growth Hackers, they continue to innovate thanks to their digital marketing platform.
For Phantombuster users and especially non-technical people.
This extension automatically retrieves session cookies from websites you are connected to. Once you're in Phantombuster, simply click “Connect to Website” to fill in the session cookie input field.
Phantombuster ->
8. Social Media Management
Buffer
Buffer needs no introduction, it is one of the most used tools by growth hackers who create content.
It's one of the best tools for sharing content on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn from anywhere on the web, with a single click.
By using this extension, you can visit various websites and program through Buffer directly from these other sites.
This allows you to immediately or later publish the articles you have in front of you directly on social networks.
Buffer ->
Snip.ly
When you use Snip.ly on a link, it automatically adds a call to action of your choice to the page.
Add a call to action to every link you share, it's the best way to promote yourself while sharing content.
Recently, an integration between Snip.ly and Buffer has been added allowing you to add custom Calls to Action to your articles shared by Buffer.
Snip.ly ->
RiteBoost
Improve the return on investment of your posts in one click, directly in your favorite planning tool.
Enrich your posts with hashtags, emojis, GIFs, and link CTAs with a single click.
This Chrome extension is going to change your social shares because it shows statistics like retweets, click rates, average impressions, and other interesting things like:
- Auto-hashtag your posts with hashtags that are both relevant and currently trending.
- Automatically add relevant emojis to your message.
- Automatically attach an image extracted from the meta tags to a link in your message.
- Automatically create beautiful images from the text of your article.
- Automatically shorten links with a CTA button, image, or video.
- Automatically mention the author of an article extracted from the link's metadata.
RiteBoost ->
FAQs
What is growth hacking?
The Growth Hacking is a set of activities consisting of” develop growth ” of a company, through a set of marketing techniques that allow rapid and significant growth to be accelerated with the minimum of resources.
Moreover, Growth Hacking is not a simple and unique method to apply. It is much more than that, it is above all A state of mind and an ability to constantly test and challenge yourself to achieve your goals.
More information can be found in this article: What is growth hacking?
Why use Chrome Extensions in Growth Hacking?
I can't even imagine what my daily life would be like without any of my Chrome extensions.
So I thought it would be good to make a list of all the Chrome extensions that I use in my Growth Hacking activities - almost daily, for unlocking growth and increasing productivity.
Also discover a list of Growth Hacking tools: A selection of Growth Hacking tools essential in 2021
Conclusion
After installing all of these Chrome extensions, your browser may look like a weapon of mass destruction to boost business growth. The good news is that your productivity is likely to skyrocket.
I would love to see your feedback and recommendations in the comments section below.
If I see something worth mentioning, and after trying it out, I promise to update my article immediately.
