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Chrome Extension Pricing: Freemium vs Paid vs Subscription
Free, freemium, one-time or subscription: how to price a Chrome extension, what each model converts like, and how to avoid underpricing it.
Accept Payments in a Chrome Extension: Stripe vs Paddle
How to charge for a Chrome extension: Stripe or Paddle, the merchant-of-record and sales tax question, license checks, and wiring it to your backend.
Chrome Extension Landing Pages That Convert
Why a Chrome extension needs a landing page beyond its Web Store listing, what belongs on it, and how it drives installs, SEO, trust, and long-term retention.
The Chrome Extension Developer Stack
The tools every Chrome extension developer actually needs — for building, debugging, the Web Store listing, analytics, and retention — with honest picks.
Chrome Web Store Optimization: The Complete Guide
How to optimize your Chrome Web Store listing to rank higher and convert more installs — name, description, keywords, screenshots, and quality signals.
Chrome Extension Analytics: What Weekly Users Really Counts
How the Chrome Web Store counts weekly users, what its dashboard hides, and the metrics to track instead: activation, retention and uninstall reasons.
How to Monetize a Chrome Extension: 5 Models That Work
Google gives extensions no payment system. Five ways Chrome extensions make money in 2026, with real price ranges, revenue benchmarks and how to pick one.
Get more Chrome Web Store reviews without annoying users
Reviews drive your Web Store ranking and install rate, but under 1% of users leave one unprompted. Here's the system that earns Chrome Web Store reviews.
How to get your first 1,000 users for a Chrome extension
Building the extension was the easy part. Here's an honest, channel-by-channel playbook for getting your first 1,000 extension users, ordered by leverage.
Chrome extension analytics: the 4 blind spots that matter
The Chrome Web Store dashboard shows installs, but nothing about usage, why users leave, or what they want. Here's what you get and how to fill the gaps.