Having switched from Firefox to Chrome as my primary browser last week I have been more productive due to Google Chrome performance being outstanding. However one lingering problem occured in that when I tried to check my own blog feeds by hitting http://www.dragonblogger.com/feed for example there is a Google Chrome RSS issue where it instead will spit out raw XML data instead of properly displaying the RSS feed like FireFox, Internet Explorer or Opera. You don’t have this problem when going to a Feedburner feed and I saw it primarily with WordPress blog feeds.

This is what the output looks like if you go to one of my wordpress blog feed URL’s directly with Google Chrome:

This has lead me to do some querying and I came across one of the most important extensions for Google Chrome is the RSS Subscription Extension which allows Google Chrome to render and display your WordPress blog or other RSS feed inside the browser properly.

The RSS Extension for Chrome still doesn’t allow you to manually hit the dragonblogger.com/feed/ URL but instead when you are on any main page in a blog site now that has a feed, you will see an RSS icon at the top right of the URL bar. Select this icon and it will properly render and display any of the RSS feeds offered by that website right in the Google Chrome browser.

Results of RSS Feed with the Chrome RSS Feed Extension:

Bottom Line

If you need to read RSS Feeds in Google Chrome and check your feeds often, the RSS Feed Chrome extension is extremely useful and highly recommended. This Chrome Extension is the best one that I have found to fix RSS issues in the Chrome browser.

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When I write the poems for the Random Twitter Poetry game on Wanderer Thoughts Poetry, I am often submitted words I have to look up to use. I can’t find an easy method for having dictionary definitions in my posts, since I would have to write them manually or manually link the words, but I did find a great Google Chrome extension that lets you double click on a word and it will instantly popup a dictionary definition of the word.

The Google Dictionary Chrome Extension is a great way to find out what a word means without having to leave the site you are on.

It is one of the extensions for Google Chrome that I highly recommend.

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There is a unique Google Chrome Extension called iPageRank SEO Tool for Chrome that shows you every websites pagerank as most other plugins do but goes several steps further.

Clicking on the iPageRank button gives you your websites keywords and the frequency of which they appear, I tested this on my poetry blog and saw what my keywords looked like. There is also a separate column called “performing” on the right which I assume shows which keywords have lead to clicks on your blog from Google Search engines but I don’t know for sure.

What is most intersting is if you just hover over the iPageRank button instead of clicking on it. You will see a breakdown of all your internal and external links and which ones are DoFollow internally and Externally. You will also get a metric of how much PageRank you are leaking out of your blog per link. I don’t know how this is calculated or how accurate it is, but it is a very interesting metric to me.

My Wanderer Thoughts Poetry blog had the highest PageRank of 3 for all of my blogs and was leaking .018 PageRank per link (this would be around 60 external links would drain a whole PageRank according to this formula.) The plug-in is worth its weight in gold as it helps you see what keywords sites are leveraging (useful if you want to scout competitor or like sites and try to get keyword ideas) and shows you how much DoFollow linkage you have going in and out of your blog.

I am curious to know if any of my other bloggers have used this plug-in or something similar and have any experience on this PageRank per link calculation?

-Dragon Blogger

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I hadn’t even had the chance to play around with Google Chrome extensions lately and when I was browsing BlogEngage I came across an article on Last Place On The Net titled Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions Live and just had to read the article to see what extensions were this authors favorite.

I was surprised to see that most of the top 10 extensions listed are among my top FireFox extensions and it made sense that they exist on Google Chrome now as well. These included StumbleUpon, Flashblock, Bit.Ly, and an Auto HD for YouTube extension.

By visiting the website I quickly decided to add about 5 of the 10 extensions in a matter of seconds and my Google Chrome is souped up a bit more thanks to the authors list.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out Google Chrome Extensions yet, these are “Add On” equivalents for Google Chrome which increase the browsers functionality and feature set. From all my testing so far the ones that I have downloaded cause no perceivable negative impact on browsing speed or Google Chrome load times.

You can find Google Chrome Extensions here to browse the complete list or visit the Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions link in the first paragraph to visit the favorites from that blogs author.

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