7 popular Joomla Extensions for Your Website SEO

If you are an aspiring web developer or designer, or you have been working since a long time to improve your website, then you must be acquainted with the term Joomla extension. As I have been closely associated with improving web pages, , hence I thought of sharing some most useful Joomla Extensions for Your Website SEO that may help you to optimize your web page.

1.  QR Code Friendly

For a website, its URL, holds prime importance, as it is mostly screened by the big search engines like Google. To make your website’s URL most user-friendly and searchable, you can use this tool, popularly known as ‘QR Code Friendly’. With the help of Google Chart this module converts the page url that are displayed into a QR Code, by making use of Google Chart tools. By using the Page title, and value like ‘alt’, or ’title’, this tool helps to improve the accessibility of your web Page, through SEO.

“QR Code Friendly”, is basically a multi-language Joomla extension. It can be easily translated into other different languages ​​(e.g. Installer package contains en-GB and pt-BR), and helps

2.     Tag Meta

The next most important thing, which is given prime importance by search engines, apart from the URL of a website, is its ‘Title’. Joomla offers a resilient tool by the name ‘Tag Meta’, which has recently gained a lot of popularity. The results of this tool are seriously remarkable!

Tag Meta, basically helps in managing a website’s ‘Meta Information,’ most efficiently. In simple words, it helps in improving the site’s position during SEO optimization, and also helps in generating ‘Meta Information’, for any page dynamically. Another added advantage that you can have is that ‘Tag Meta’ has an in-built database of synonyms, which gives you the choice to automatically create and add new synonyms of your existing keywords on to any of your existing page.

3. Header Tags

If you want to convert your existing heading tags, this tool can prove to be a blessing in disguise to you. So, in short, this tool is best used to control the heading tags (h1-h6).

By searching the existent heading tags in the selected content, it helps a user to change them according to his/her specifications and needs. Moreover, the priority and occurrence of a heading tag can also be adjusted, using this tool. Since, ‘heading tags’, are also given much importance by search engines, while conducting a search, this tools has gained much importance and popularity amongst web developers, while implementing SEO strategies.

4. EasyImageCaption

The EasyImageCaption tool, helps to search the article text, and then creates ‘Captions’ from ALT’ or ‘TITLE’ tags in articles.

By searching article text for images, and using the same as a caption for images, this tool helps you to generate ‘Captions’, without using any javascript. It although works similar to the Joomla ‘caption tool’, however is more resilient and user-friendly, that it.

5. JoomSEF

This new blockbuster tool is nipping the market consistently. If you are on a lookout for a plugin, that can make your Websites URL search engine friendly, then you can give a try on using ‘JoomSEF’.

Adorned with capabilities like meta-data generation, and making the URL’s easily understandable, this premium tool is becoming a popular amongst most web developers.

I have personally tried my hands on this plugin, have found it to be quite handy.

Further the main features offered by this tool are-

• It offers features like advanced URL Management.
• It helps in creating search engine friendly URL’s.
• 3rd level domain support & Keywords Management etc.

6. Embed Google Map

Embedding Google Maps with websites has become quite a trend these days. If you want to embed one or more Google Maps at the same time in your Website, then this tool can b of great help to you. This plugin enables a user to embed multiple Google Maps to Joomla articles, by simply adding the coordinates and addresses which are required to be displayed.

Moreover, by using ‘Embed Google Map’, you can do the following:

• Integrate different Google Maps to your web page
• Set the boarder layout, ‘zoom level’ etc, as per your choice.
• Add a link of the Original sized Map.
• And much more.

So, to let your viewers find you conveniently, use this tool and add as many Google Maps to your website, as you wish.

7. Social Share and Vote Button

This Share Plugin is a popular Joomla tool for integrating the most popular social networking websites with the content of the webpage.

This plugin has proven to be a boon in terms of keeping a constant track on the preference of your visitors. By letting other share, visit, share and vote on your content, you can offer an open platform for your own self to know about the pulse of the online users.

Being a dynamic tool, this plugin allows you to choose as many social networking websites, as you wish, and helps them to get integrated on to your website.

So, use this tool, and enjoy the likes and visits to your content, from every corner of the world!