{"id":516,"date":"2023-06-05T13:33:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linki.cz\/en\/?p=516"},"modified":"2023-06-05T20:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T18:40:04","slug":"seo-minion-extension-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linki.cz\/en\/seo-minion-extension-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO Minion extension is now only for paying users. Which are the best and free alternatives?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A very popular SEO extension SEO Minion is changing its approach to users. Now you can use it only if you are a paying user of a service called Keywords Everywhere. I am not and will not be at least for noiw. What SEO extension should you use from now on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>As a long-time SEO Minion user, I was quite surprised by the unannounced change. The owner communicates it to users directly in the UI itself, see below. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/linki.cz\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-05_10h02_24.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-517\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I understand the side project&#8217;s promo strategy quite well, but if you have competitors in your segment with similar features for free, I&#8217;ll be quite curious to see how long it lasts. And that&#8217;s even though the price tag of Keywords Everywhere is pretty low for a general use. I have plenty of other paid sources for keyword data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are your alternatives in this situation and how are they better or worse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I picked these five extensions which I\u02c7ve been using or testing in the past years. All of them are multi functional just like SEO Minion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ahrefs SEO ToolBar<\/li><li>Detailed SEO extension<\/li><li>Big Metrics SEO Plugin<\/li><li>SEO Pro Extension<\/li><li>SEO Pro Extension<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I made a table comparing the functions for these five SEO extensions. Read the quick findings before you scroll to the table itself at the end of the content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>No other plugin can do everything that SEO Minion does.<\/li><li>No other will directly show you if a URL is blocked in robots.txt.<\/li><li>No other can preview the result in SERPs.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ahrefs SEO Tool Bar has the most similar features<\/strong>. I&#8217;m sticking with it because it also shows the status code for a given URL, which other extensions except FandangoSEO Extension can&#8217;t do for an unknown reason. Plus I use Ahrefs metrics on daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>second best options is SEO Pro Extension<\/strong> IMHO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the promised table of features, below that you&#8217;ll find more tips on replacements for features that the winner of the comparison can&#8217;t do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Data<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">SEO Minion<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Ahrefs<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Detailed<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Big Metrics SEO Plugin<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">SEO Pro Extension<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">FandangoSEO Extension<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>On-page<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Status Code<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Indexability<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Followable<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Blocked in robots.txt<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Structured data<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Links<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Broken Links<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hreflang<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>HTML\/DOM<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Images<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>HTTP Header<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>SERP Preview<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>SERP Locaction Checker<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Free to use<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u274c<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u2714\ufe0f<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption>SEO plugins compared<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What is a standalone replacement for the features that Ahrefs SEO Toolbar does not provide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The new SEO Minion feature for HTML\/DOM content comparison is perfectly replaceable by the <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/view-rendered-source\/ejgngohbdedoabanmclafpkoogegdpob\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/view-rendered-source\/ejgngohbdedoabanmclafpkoogegdpob\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Rendered Source<\/a>.<\/li><li>Hreflang tags could be checked by the old but still functional <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/hreflang-tag-checker\/hjgdcecfiohgajnhilmjhebdganpaomk\/related\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/hreflang-tag-checker\/hjgdcecfiohgajnhilmjhebdganpaomk\/related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hreflang Tag Checker<\/a>.<\/li><li>SERP Preview can de done by <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/just-serp-preview\/fkoigbklggeolkhdapfdooniiopchhho\/related\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/just-serp-preview\/fkoigbklggeolkhdapfdooniiopchhho\/related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Just SERP Preview<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What is your next favourite multifunctional EO extension?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very popular SEO extension SEO Minion is changing its approach to users. Now you can use it only if you are a paying user of a service called Keywords Everywhere. I am not and will not be at least for noiw. What SEO extension should you use from now on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-page-seo"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Zdenek Dvorak","author_link":"https:\/\/linki.cz\/en\/author\/gyd\/"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Zdenek Dvorak","author_link":"https:\/\/linki.cz\/en\/author\/gyd\/"},"uagb_comment_info":15,"uagb_excerpt":"A very popular SEO extension SEO Minion is changing its approach to users. Now you can use it only if you are a paying user of a service called Keywords Everywhere. I am not and will not be at least for noiw. 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