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Posted by dani cass on September 20th, 2011

There are many great extensions available for Magento websites, covering a whole range of functionality and features. Here are 5 Magento extensions that we like:

Twitter Integration Bundle http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/MagePlace/extension/7589/twitter_integration_bundle

Social commerce is fast becoming an integral part of many business’ marketing strategy allowing customers and fans of the brand to share products and services via websites such as Twitter and Facebook.

The Twitter intergration bundle allows you to connect your Magento website to Twitter providing the following functionality:

• Visitors can sign up to your website using their Twitter account cutting the long registration process down to a single click.
• Customers can share content from your website to their Twitter account without leaving your website.
• Visitors can follow your Twitter account by clicking the onsite follow button.

SEO Suite Pro http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/MageWorx.com/extension/2448/seo-suite-pro#overview

One of the biggest problems we face with ecommerce systems is that they automatically generate information about your pages which can lead to problems like duplicated content, urls that are difficult for search engines to read and access to pages that we would rather search engines didn’t visit! The SEO Suite Pro extension covers several of the issues that affect Magento Search Engine Optimisation including:

• Converting automatically generated urls to be search engine and user friendly.
• Creates 301 permanent redirects for various urls that access the same content to avoid penalisation by search engines for duplicate content.
• Xml sitemap optimisation including the ability to hide certain pages that you don’t want to be indexed.
• Frontend sitemap optimisation.

Speed Booster http://www.aitoc.com/en/magento_booster.html

Magento is a feature rich system, this means that there will be times when the pages of the store may take a little longer to load. In order to speed up the websites load time, making both your customers and search engines happy, there are numerous speed boosting extensions that can be added to your Magento website.

We like the Speed Booster extension from Aitoc which includes does following features:

• Complete cache of all visitor areas.
• Javascript compression.
• Automatic cache refreshing when products are out of stock, edited or deleted.
• Up to 10 times faster performance for visitors.

Advanced reports http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/magento-extensions/advanced-reports.html

There is no denying that Magento offers a lot of helpful reports in its backend that allow you to track the performance of your online store. If you are looking for even more advanced reporting then this extension includes:

• A sales by day of the week report allowing you to compare the sales of two days.
• Sales reporting by any criteria e.g. SKU, manufacturer, cost.
• Sales by product, this lets you track a product over a period of time or even compare it’s performance against another product.
• View customer conversion and retention rates all on easy to understand reports.

SBOeConnect http://www.sboeconnect.com/

Adding all of your products to Magento can take a while if you have a lot of them! One way to speed up the process is to integrate your online store with your inhouse solutions such as Sage or SAP.

With the SBOeConnect extension you can do the following:

• Synchronise the SAP system with the Magento website to import product details.
• Synchronise product stock levels.
• Set up tier and special pricing.
• Export multiple product images from SAP to your Magento website.
• Bi-directional customer information synchronisation.

If there are any great Magento extensions that you think deserve a mention, why not head on over to our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ImpactWebSolutions and add them to our discussion on Magento extensions.

Dani
Impact Web Solutions
Magento Web Design