Digital Marketing today requires improving your productivity in the way you do things.
This is why it is necessary to save a lot of time to focus on growing your business. I can’t even imagine what my daily routine would be like without any of my Chrome extensions.
As such, I thought it would be good to put together a list of all the Chrome Extensions that I use – almost daily, to unlock growth in my Growth Hacking strategies .
In this article, you will get to know the following types of Chrome Extensions :
- Analytical Data
- Content creation (Content Marketing)
- Growth engineering
- Emailing
- Improved productivity
- SEO
- Social Network Management
The Chrome extensions in this article will greatly help you accelerate your Growth Hacking strategies.
Good reading !
List of useful Chrome Extensions to improve your daily life in Digital Marketing
1. Analytical Data chrome extensions
Block Yourself from Analytics
This Chrome Extension is extremely useful.
It allows you to not disrupt 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 what new features you have developed.
An essential in Growth hacking so as not to distort your analysis data.
Page Analytics (Google)
Want to know how users interact with your website?
The Page Analytics Chrome extension lets you see what they click on and what they don’t click on.
Use this information to improve your growth hacking process to optimize your website design, improve 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 within the plugin. You can use this chrome extension for every page you already track on Google Analytics.
Analytics UTM Builder
This extension is an optimized version of Google Analytics URL Builder and allows you to tag URLs to track in Google Analytics campaign reports.
With this tool, you can add UTM parameters to track the overall performance of your campaigns in Google Analytics:
- Autoplay current web address
- Unlimited tag presets for quick tagging
- Force lower case (on/off toggle)
- Bit.ly shortener support
- Automatic generation of final URL
- Copy to clipboard button
- Memorization of your last UTM (for 60 minutes)
100% confidentiality guaranteed! This extension does not collect your data or browsing activity. Permissions are required for functionality reasons.
2. Content Creation chrome extensions
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 errors.
Grammarly helps you rewrite your texts according to the chosen tone (colloquial, professional, etc.) and to make your texts more readable on the Web. An essential chrome extension for Growth Hackers.
Giphy for Chrome
Who doesn’t like GIFs?
Generally, they are funny and allow you to express more by saying less. Most importantly, people love sharing them. So why not include GIFs in your blog posts? This Chrome extension brings the power of GIF searching to the speed of light.
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 forths and get your message across in no time.
The extension allows you to choose what you want to record: the entire screen, a browser tab, specific software and with or without your face displayed.
3. Growth Engineering Extensions
BuiltWith
Not everyone is a developer.
This doesn’t mean that you couldn’t have a say in the technologies you use for your landing pages or website.
If you see something awesome, you’ll probably want to get it or understand how it was designed. That’s where this Chrome extension comes in.
By simply tapping on the extension, you will have access to the list of all the technologies that the website in question uses.
CSS Peeper
Being a Growth Hacker means being fast and efficient.
I can’t afford to devote resources to experimenting with just one homepage.
I have to build it myself.
CSS Peeper gives me what I want : The way to build a subscribe button, just like a high-converting landing page, effortlessly and quickly.
Window Resizer
What is 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.
Clean Master
The Chrome Clean Master extension does exactly what its name suggests: 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.
User-Agent Switcher
When you are developing your website or landing page, it is important to make sure that everything you have created is compatible with any browser.
This Chrome extension allows you to give you a preview of how your page will look on other browsers.
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, modify, search, protect and block cookies!
Fake Filler
Want to test your forms quickly and easily?
This Chrome Extension will help you do that. Whether text boxes, text boxes, radio buttons or drop-down lists, etc. Fake Filler will fill them with false or fictitious data.
This is a must for developers and growth hackers who work with forms because it eliminates the need to manually enter values into fields.
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 color picker tool and find the hex code of the color you search.
Or, you can simply install the ColorZilla chrome extension. With ColorZilla, you can get any color by clicking anywhere, getting the color code and pasting it into another program.
4. Extensions for Email MArketing
HubSpot Sales
Hubspot is awesome and continues to provide one of the best free tools anywhere.
With HubSpot Sales, you can see all the information of 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 to him.
This extension will display all the information directly from your Gmail account, an excellent Growth Hacking option to boost your emailing activities.
Boomerang for Gmail
Boomerang allows you to schedule messages to send or resend at a later date.
Write a message now, send it whenever you want, even if you’re not online. Track messages to ensure you receive a response, and set reminders directly in Gmail. Know if your email has been read using cross-platform read receipts.
Free yourself from constant interruptions with the “Pause” function, while still being notified of important emails.
5. Extensions to Improved productivity
StayFocus
StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on your work by limiting the time you can spend on time-wasting websites.
Once the allotted time runs out, the sites you 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.) .
Marinara: Assistant Pomodoro
The Pomodoro technique is one of the best time management tools available.
To activate a working session with Marinara, simply click on the Chrome extension icon. This displays a 25 minute countdown overlaid on 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 display on the icon.
RescueTime
RescueTime keeps track of the 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 classifies the sites you visit. It also rates them on a scale from “ Very productive ” to “ Very distracting .”
So you’ll never have to wonder where you spent your whole day again.
Toggle
Whether you’re a Growth Manager or a Growth Hacker , it’s good to know how long it takes to get something done.
This type of data is necessary when you need to plan your work schedule, and luckily for all of us, the Toggl Chrome Extension integrates with most existing project management tools. (I use it with the Clickup tool )
Extension Manager
What is Extension Manager?
Extensions for Chrome are useful, addictive and also harm your browser speed. It is a fact. The irony is that there is another Chrome extension to handle all this extension madness.
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 with one click.
Better Onetab
Sorting and grouping tabs is very useful.
This extension is Open Source unlike OneTab which is very rarely updated.
Better-Onetab can help you store the tabs you have open to free up your resources and eliminate clutter.
Likewise, 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.
6. SEO Chrome Extensions
MOZbar
With MOZbar, you can access important SEO metrics as you browse the web, create custom searches, see a keyword’s ranking difficulty, view social metrics, and a ton of other stuff for growth hackers and SEO experts .
Here are some functions offered by this Growth Hacking Chrome extension :
- Create custom searches by engine, country, region or city.
- Quickly assess the page authority and 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: Tracked, No Tracked, External or Internal.
- Expose page elements, general attributes, markup, and HTTP status.
- Export the details of your search engine results pages (SERP) analysis to a CSV file.
In short, in Growth Hacking we love MOZ. It’s simply powerful.
Majestic Backlink Analyzer
This great analyzer. of backlinks offered by Majestic gives you a quick way to see the power of any web page based on its backlinks database.
Majestic crawls the entire web and does not depend on any other third-party application to obtain the data. View the Trust Flow™ or Citation Flow score of any page, along with information about the number of domains and URLs linked to it.
Information provided free of charge includes: Link Profile graphs, link counts 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 more than useful Growth Hacking Chrome extension!
Open SEO stats
An SEO-focused Chrome extension to access Google Rankings, Alexa Rankings, 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.
Check My Links
Check My Links is an extension developed primarily for web designers, developers and Growth Hackers.
When you’re editing a web page that has a lot of links, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to quickly check that all the links on the page are working correctly? This is 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 ones are valid and which ones are broken, it’s that simple.
7. Data Collection (Web Scraping) Extensions
FindThatLead
Find all the emails you need on LinkedIn and websites. Contact decision-makers, expand your network and grow your business.
Go from finding a prospect ➜ to checking their email ➜ to sending a direct message – without ever closing your browser!
To get anyone’s emails, you will only need their name and the company they work for.
Thanks to the free Chrome extension, use the magic of Growth Hacking to export your new leads to mailing lists and build email campaigns to grow your business .
Email Auto Extractor
This Chrome Extension is really simple. Simply browse a given page and collect all the email addresses on it.
Simple and efficient. However, it does not yet work with AJAX pages. Regarding 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 most for collecting data from 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 crawl the target site and collect data.
With this structure, extracting data from modern, dynamic websites such as Amazon, Tripadvisor, eBay, as well as lesser-known sites, is effortless.
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 collects session cookies from websites you are connected to. Once you are in Phantombuster, simply click “Connect to Website” to fill out the session cookies input field.
8. Social Network Management Extensions
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 just one click.
Using this extension, you will be able to visit different websites and program through Buffer directly from these other sites.
This allows you to publish the articles you have in front of you immediately or later directly on social networks.
Snip.ly
When you use Snip.ly on a link, it automatically adds a call to action of your choice to the page.
Adding a call to action to every link you share is the best way to promote yourself while sharing content.
Recently an integration between Snip.ly and Buffer was added allowing you to add personalized Calls to Action to your articles shared by Buffer.
RiteBoost
Improve the ROI of your posts in one click, directly in your favorite scheduling tool.
Enrich your posts with hashtags, emojis, GIFs and CTAs on links with just one click.
This Chrome extension will change your social shares because it presents statistics like retweets, click-through rates, average impressions and other interesting things like:
- Auto-hash your posts with hashtags that are both relevant and currently trending.
- Automatically add relevant emojis to your message.
- Automatically attach an image extracted from meta tags in a link in your post.
- Automatically create beautiful images from your article text.
- Automatically shorten links with a button, image or video CTA.
- Automatically credit the author of an article extracted from the link metadata.
FAQs
What is Growth Hacking?
Growth Hacking is a set of activities consisting of “ developing the growth ” of a company, through a set of marketing techniques making it possible to quickly and significantly accelerate growth with the minimum of resources.
Furthermore, 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 question oneself to achieve one’s objectives.
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, to unlock growth and increase productivity.
Conclusion
After installing all these Chrome extensions, your browser may look like a weapon of mass destruction to boost your business growth. The good news is that your productivity will likely skyrocket.
I would love to see your comments and recommendations in the comments section below.
If I see something worth mentioning, and after trying it, I promise to update my article immediately.