Joomla components for Ecommerce, SEO and Social
This post looks at 3 highly popular Joomla components. These components support the key elements for a successful Joomla website, namely Ecommerce, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Social Networking.
Virtuemart for Ecommerce
Virtuemart is the popular Joomla ecommerce solution and a must list component in any Joomla popular components list. It offers an integrated shopping cart solution suitable for almost any type of Ecommerce website.
Key features
- Easy to administer your ecommerce.
- Easy to add, edit, delete products.
- Generate custom reports and invoices.
- Support for several payment gateways and shipping tools.
Benefits
- It is an open source, hence customizable.
- Low cost solution
- Complete documentation.
- Easy to setup, your online retail store.
- Has excellent support through service providers.
sh404SEF for SEO
sh404sef is a popular component for making Joomla websites SEO friendly. Joomla is probably the most popular CMS out there and deservedly so. But when it comes to SEO, it has certain limitations just like most CMS systems. But due to this component, that is no longer the case.
Key Features
- Create User friendly URLs
- Remove duplicate URLs
- Create unlimited short URLs for any page
- Customize the page title and page meta description
- Automatically emphasize all your article titles with “Heading tags”
- Satisify many of the Google recommendations for search engine optimization with a few clicks
Benefits
- Better optimized website for search engines
- Improved rankings and traffic
Community Builder for Social features
Community Builder is a popular component for making your Joomla site more social. It has a good record on security and offers the best profile management system for Joomla.
Key Features
- Allows users to create custom profiles
- Customize registration form
- Membership management
- Look and feel customization
- Scalable
Benefits
- Open source and free
- 120+ plugins
- Can be extended with CB API
- Extremely secure
Posted by Dharne & Co., a leading website design company based near Irvine, California offering Joomla design services.