Discover 11 Free, Amazing Chrome Browser Extensions For Digital Marketing

As of October 2016, it is estimated that Google Chrome has a 63% worldwide usage share of web browsers as a desktop browser and 50% market share across all platforms combined, is also the most popular browser for smartphones. One driving force behind its massive popularity is the hundreds of thousands of small, free software programs called Chrome Extensions available to enhance the functionality of the Chrome browser. These extensions are similar to apps for your smartphone – and Google has encouraged developers to create them to add all kinds of functions to the Chrome web browser.

There are extensions to help with all sorts of tasks and activities you perform regularly on the web. Extensions to help you develop your content marketing strategy, social media marketing strategy, SEO strategy, and email marketing. Apps to collect social media analytics, identify social influencers, assist in data collection, and preview your website and social media designs.

As digital and internet marketers, there are a number of extensions we use every day that save us a lot of time and assist with repetitive tasks. Here is a breakdown of some of our favorite Chrome browser extensions which my colleagues and I use on a daily basis.

IDEA180’s GO-TO CHROME EXTENSIONS

List of Chrome Extensions We Use as Internet Marketers:

• Keeper® Password Manager

• ViewedIt – Screen, Voice and Webcam Recording

• Bookmark Manager Speed Dial Pablo

• AccessURL

• Grammarly

• One Tab

• Pocket

• io

• HootSuite Hootlet

Keeper® Password Manager

Store, create and auto-fill your login credentials instantly—for any secured website within your web browser. Keeper is the world’s most downloaded password keeper and secure digital vault for protecting and managing your passwords and other secret information. Millions of people use Keeper to protect their most sensitive and private info.

• Store unlimited passwords

• Protect against hackers and data theft

• Encrypt everything in your vault

• Generate strong and secure passwords

• Auto-fill Passwords in apps and websites with KeeperFill™

• Save private files, photos and videos in your vault

• Take private photos inside a vault

• Access on all your devices and computers

• Sync instantly between devices, computers, and browsers

• Protect your vault with self-destruct

• MORE

ViewedIt – Screen, Voice and Webcam R

The easiest way for anyone to create, send and track video. 100% free!

ViewedIt breaks down communication barriers by allowing you to simply communicate with anyone through video. ViewedIt offers one-click screen recording, easy video sharing in email and social, and notifications when people watch your videos.

HD quality video

• Unlimited storage – record as many videos as you want

• No expiration – videos never expire

• Optimized video playback on any device and screen size

• One hour of recording time per video, unlimited videos

Bookmark Manager Speed Dial

Bookmark Manager helps with organization, syncing bookmarks across browsers and platforms. You’re able to access your bookmarks from any platform that has internet access.

• Share & Publish

• Co-ownership and Private Boards

• Reduce Open Tab Clutter and Save Memory

• Populate Boards from Browser’s Bookmark

• Sync Searches and Bookmarks Cross Browsers

• New Tab Speed Dial Functionality

• Drag and Drop Searches with Bookmarks

• Customizable Themes

• Bookmark Manager Edit Mode

• Rename Categories and Links

• Display Name Customization

Pablo

Engaging social images in 30 seconds – Pablo is the simplest way to create beautiful images that fit every social network perfectly. Create images with the perfect size and format for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and even Pinterest. Typography, font sizes, and formatting options make everyone a designer!

Often times, images are the hook that draws more clicks, shares, and favorites on social media. Engagement-grabbing images might be the closest thing we have to a magic wand on social media.

As you browse your favorite sites and hover over images, you will notice a ‘Pablo’ button in the lower right corner. Select this button and the image will automatically be pulled into Pablo and available for editing. Pablo also comes with 1000s of free images courtesy of Unsplash.

AccessURL

Securely share access to websites with colleagues and family without giving away your username and password. AccessURL gives you a secure URL that temporarily gives others access to the website you’re currently signed into. AccessURL encrypts the session data with AES before creating the Access URL. It also lets you set an expiration on Access URLs.

Grammarly

Publishing a post with a spelling mistake is a nightmare for social media managers—and rightly so. While the occasional error happens to everyone from time to time, consistent mistakes can damage your brand’s credibility. Grammarly can help catch them all, including the mistakes that manage to evade the usual red squiggly line: an incorrect verb tense, a missing article before a plural noun, or the misuse of a comma.

The Grammarly extension can catch over 250 types of errors, many of which aren’t typically caught by spellcheckers. Along with catching your mistakes, Grammarly can actually help you write better overall, by offering synonym suggestions in line with the context of what you’re writing.

MORE REMARKABLE CHROME EXTENSIONS FOR CONTENT MARKETING PROFESSIONALS

Content Collection Chrome Extensions

OneTab

Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.

When your tabs are in the OneTab list, you will save up to 95% of memory because you will have reduced the number of tabs open in Google Chrome.

Pocket

When you find something in Chrome that you want to view later, put it in Pocket. It automatically syncs to your phone, tablet or computer so you can view it at any time, even without an internet connection. Not all items of interest warrant a bookmark.

Social Media Chrome Extensions

KUKU.io

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kukuio/mlnbdkndimgjfpfjokkcfgghmmmknhlj

The KUKU.io extension is a user-friendly social media management application allowing you to share your content on multiple social media platforms in two clicks. Choose and publish! Facebook, Twitter, Vkontakte, Tumblr, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and OK.ru are supported now.

HootSuite Hootlet

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hootsuite-hootlet/bjgfdlplhmndoonmofmflcbiohgbkifn

With Hootlet, you can search for social content as easily as you search Google. Share directly from any page, highlight any text and automatically compose a message to share, search location-relevant social shares, and share images and video effortlessly.