How to choose the best SEO modules for your CMS

Modules and plugins are a set of scripts and programs that extend the functionality of your website engine: WordPress, OpenCart, Joomla, Bitrix or any other. Plugins are a little different:

• they are installed to particular parts of the template;
• they work independently and do not require to install anything.

These SEO tools also help website optimizers. With their assistance, websites are optimized to search engines, and they also help to track the optimization progress.

They may conflict with each other. Don't install them to maintain the "the more, the better" principle.

Blogs, online stores, information websites and other resources are mostly developed on the basis of popular CMS, including WordPress, OpenCart, and Joomla. This is not the comprehensive list, but in this article, it is them that we will consider plugins for.

This plugin attacks spam in the comment sections and feedback forms.

The program is already in the framework, so you don't need to additionally install it. The tool also helps to control the number of approved comments from one customer and assess links.

The tool is free for blogs.
Prices for commercial resources start from $5.

This tool helps to edit the sitemap.xml as well as the Title and Description meta tags, disallow indexing of particular sections, and generate meta tags.

This tool is designed to optimize content. It allows you to:

• manage headers and keywords;
• assign meta tags to website categories;
• generate meta tags for each type of page;
• optimize website pages for social media;
• generate a sitemap;
• massively edit meta tags.

The tool is free of charge; there is a Premium version which costs €79 per year.

This tool resolves most SEO tasks. It is also great for advanced webmasters.

This is another free tool with a paid version. It reminds Yoast, but it can switch off the needless functions, thus optimizing work of even a weak hosting.

The price for the PRO version is from $68 to $559 per year.

There are more options:

This is a paid tool which allows you to assess links and manage them so that they assist in the website optimization. This tool can even handle links from comments.

Let's briefly consider the functionality of this tool:

• it automatically scans content to detect internal links on a website;
  
• LinkPatrol reporting: it helps to analyze link placement by domain or author;
  
• automatic closure of the selected links with the nofollow tag;
  
• exporting the necessary reports to CSV.
  

Unlike previous plugins, this tool is being purchased once. You do not have to regularly prolong your access. The price of this tool ranges from $50 to $200.

It helps to optimize images. Namely, it fills in all tags for images. The most important thing is to double-check them.

The plugin fills in the headers, but you can program the formula yourself:

The CMS is constantly developing; therefore the list of plugins is regularly updated. Don't forget to track it.

This CMS is less often used for the current commercial and information projects. Therefore, we are only providing a brief digest of the most popular extensions for SEO.

• AJAX Register facilitates the process of creating a registration form on a website; there are flexible field settings: text fields, selection lists, and file uploads;

• Akeeba Backup creates a backup version of a website;

• JSitemap PRO generates a site map;

• Canonical Links All in One helps to tackle the duplicated content by setting up canonical links.

SEO modules and plugins facilitate the webmaster's working process. It is important to choose them wisely.

The major task is to define the most effective plugins according to the website subject and type. Keep in mind that caution is very important here. If a plugin is incompatible with the version of your CMS, this may break your website down.