7 SEO Bookmarklets to increase productivity

What are Bookmarklets?

Chances are that you are not a begginer so I won’t go much into details of what Bookmarklets are.

Bookmarklets are simply browser bookmarks that execute JavaScript in order to manipulate the current page. But since I’m not a developer and my JS skills are limited, you can read more on this freeCodeCamp article.

How to install

Creating or installing a bookmarklet is identical a regular bookmark, give it a Name that reminds you the function and in the URL field add the JavaScript code.

Three ways to create a bookmarklet.

• Just drag and drop the shortcut in your bookmarks bar
• Right-click on the Bookmark bar, then Add Page
• Hit the shortcut CMD + D if you’re using a MAC or control + D if using Windows

Site search on current website

This bookmarklet lets you do a site: search on the current website. You can find a complete guide on search operators and amend the following JS script as needed.

javascript: (function() { new Promise(setQuery => { var input = window.prompt('You\'re searching on the above site for:'); if (input) setQuery(input); }).then(query => { window.open('https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A%27+window.location.window+%27+"%27+query +%27"%27); }); })();

Shortcut: Drag this into your bookmarks bar 👉 Site search

Open the current URL in ahrefs

This ahrefs bookmarklet is one of my go-to for opening the current URL in the Site Explorer with an Exact URL match.

javascript:window.open('https://app.ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/v2/exact/recent?target=%27+encodeURIComponent(location.hostname + location.pathname));

Shortcut: Drag this into your bookmarks bar 👉 Open in ahrefs

Open Google’s cache text-only version

This little gem allows you to see the current URL in Google’s text-only cache version in order to see what a web page looked like the last time Google visited it.

javascript:(function()%7Bvar loc%3Dwindow.location%3Bif (window.location.protocol !%3D "https%3A")%7Bloc%3Dwindow.location.toString().replace(%2F%5Ehttp%3A%5C%2F%5C%2F%2F%2C'http%3A%2F%2Fwebcache.googleusercontent.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3A')%3B%7Delse%7Bloc%3Dwindow.location.toString().replace(%2F%5Ehttps%3A%5C%2F%5C%2F%2F%2C'https%3A%2F%2Fwebcache.googleusercontent.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3A')%3B%7Dwindow.open(loc %2B '%26num%3D1%26strip%3D1%26vwsrc%3D0')%7D)()

Shortcut: Drag this into your bookmarks bar 👉 Google's cache

Open in Google Search Console

This shortcut lets you open the current URL in Google search console with a query breakdown. There are a few applied filters such as:

• Clicks
• Impresssions
• CTR
• AVG position
• Search type: Web
• Date: Last 28 days

javascript:void(window.open(%27https://search.google.com%2Fsearch-console%2Fperformance%2Fsearch-analytics?resource_id=%27+window.location.protocol+%27%2F%2F%27+window.location.hostname+%27%2F&num_of_days=28&breakdown=query&page=!%27+window.location.href+%27&metrics=CLICKS%2CIMPRESSIONS%2CCTR%2CPOSITION%27,%27_blank%27));

Shortcut: Drag this into your bookmarks bar 👉 Open in GSC

Open in Wayback Machine

Check a URL if it’s saved in Wayback Machine. If it’s not about curiousity and how a page looked like 10 years ago, then it’s about SEO advantage.

javascript:window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+ window.location.href);

Shortcut: Drag this into your bookmarks bar 👉 Open in Wayback Machine

Get robots.txt of current domain

Let’s you view the robots.txt of the current domain.

javascript:window.open(window.location.origin+'/robots.txt');

Shortcut: Drag this into your bookmarks bar 👉 Open robots.txt

BONUS: Open in Google Analytics

Say that you’re currently looking at example.com/page

Hit this bookkmarklet and it will open example.com in Google Analytics under “Behavior > Site Content > Landing Pages”

javascript:window.open("https://www.google.com/analytics/web/%23report/content-landing-pages/XXXXXXXXXXXXXX/%3F_r.drilldown%3Danalytics.pagePath"%2BencodeURIComponent(":"%2Blocation.pathname)%2B"%26explorer-table.secSegmentId%3Danalytics.sourceMedium/",'_blank');

Just remember to change the Property View with the GA view that you want to associate it. In the code above replace “XXXXXXXXXXXXXX”

Take it a steps further?

Save these in your bookmarkets bar, use Alfred or Raycast (Mac users) to quickly search and use your bookmarkets. This gets you a GA view for each website, faster than you can blink.

Resources & Credits

• freeCodeCamp.orge
• Google search operators
• Alfred
• Raycast
• Google Analytics View