Since our inception in the Website development industry back in 2009, Magento has played a crucial role in our progress. Till date we have worked on over 100 + bespoke Magento development projects for our clients. The real beauty of Magento is its feature to extend the functionality and have a bespoke Magento Website developed specific to business requirement. In our years of experience with the help of our lovely and talented Magento developers team, we have developed several of our own Magento extensions and have also used and come across some outstanding and very useful extensions contributed by other Magento development companies or Magento developer. So here we present a list which can be quite handy and valuable.
Top Magento SEO Extensions
Yoast MetaRobots
With this beautiful SEO extension for magento it becomes so easy to prevent indexing product page of your store while still allowing the search engines to follow the links available of the pages, just by adding noindex, follow robots meta tags. With this extension you can also stop indexing no contents page, login and register page. It stops indexing your feeds by adding noindex, follow tag in the head section.
SEO Suite Pro
SEO Suite Pro magento SEO extension adds Canonical URL and Robot Meta tags to the HTML head of magento pages. This useful tag prevents search spiders from caching duplicate content and pages.
It’s available in two versions: Ultimate and Pro. The Pro version offers basic functionalities for On Page optimization where Ultimate version provides more advance and complete range of features that are needed to make store fully SEO ready.
Ultimate SEO Suite by aheadWorks
If your store possesses similar or identical content accessible through more than one URL, this could really hurt your website very badly in organic rankings. To prevent this, it is widely recommended to use Ultimate SEO Suite extension by aheadWorks which adds Canonical links to the head of each product and categories pages. Thus search engines would easily identify the preferred URL that the duplicate content refers to.
SEO Suite Enterprise - #1 SEO extension
SEO Suite Enterprise Extension has been designed to bring all the essential SEO features under one roof. It transforms all Product Tag URLs, RSS Feed URLs into search engine and user friendly URLs’.
It includes the features of Extended Sitemap Magento Extension which creates SEO optimized hierarchical links structure of all existing product catalog and categories, CMS pages and additional configurable links for search spiders on a single site map page which is available at your store footer. For instance, http://www.mystore.com/sitemap/.
SEOgento : Magento SEO extension
Without writing any single line of code you have a great opportunity to increase your store SEO rankings. With SEOgento extension you can enhance your Magento website SEO with dynamic optimizations for titles and Meta tags, canonical URLs, rewriting URL in layered navigation, tag rewrite and many other useful features.
SEO Layered Navigation Pro
With SEO Layered Navigation Pro extension you have opportunity to enhance your store search engine visibility by transforming standard magento layered navigation URLs and converting them into search engine friendly URLs.
For example
http://samplestore.com/electronics/cellphones?color=24&manufacturer=3
you have SEO friendly URL,
http://samplestore.com/electronics/cellphones/filter/color/black/manufacturer/nokia
Top Magento Checkout Extensions
Magento one step check out extensions has completely transformed the online shopping experience. They have become ultimate alternative of traditional six step annoying and irritating checkout process and have boosted up the conversion rate of eCommerce websites. Following are the few ultimate and best checkout extensions you should acquire for your store.
One Step Checkout v4
Popularity Score : 6747
Reviews : 4.6/5
Compatible with : 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2.0, 1.7, 1.8, 1.8.1
Price : €245.00
Ultimate One Page Checkout for Magento - Fire Checkout 2.4
Popularity Score : 1555
Reviews : 5/5
Compatible with : 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2.0, 1.7, 1.8, 1.8.1
Price : $189.00
GoMage LightCheckout v.5.5
Popularity Score : 4891
Reviews : 4.3/5
Compatible with : 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2.0, 1.7, 1.8, 1.8.1
Price : $169.00
Skip Checkout Step 1
Popularity Score : 4666
Reviews : 3.8/5
Compatible with : 1.7
Price : FREE
One Click Checkout by aheadWorks
Popularity Score : 74
Reviews : No review
Compatible with : 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2.0, 1.7, 1.8, 1.8.1
Price : $89.00
Checkout Fields Manager
Popularity Score : 4439
Reviews : 5/5
Compatible with : 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2.0, 1.7, 1.8, 1.8.1
Price : $99.00
Quick One Page Checkout by Kamtechco.net
Popularity Score : 3452
Reviews : 5/5
Compatible with : 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2.0, 1.7, 1.8, 1.8.1
Price : $89.00
Express Checkout | One Step Checkout
Popularity Score : 4191
Reviews : 4.2/5
Compatible with : 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2.0, 1.7, 1.8, 1.8.1
Price : FREE
CheckItOut! the best checkout extension
Popularity Score : 102
Reviews : 5/5
Compatible with : 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.6.1, 1.6.2.0, 1.7
Price : €245.00
Top Magento Shipping Extensions
Shipping is an essential element for eCommerce websites to become successful. Shipping can either make or destroy your store so a thoughtful selection has to be done for efficient service. The importance of 24 hours shipping, no handling charges, product tracking number and one day delivery can dramatically improve your store conversions.
Here we have compiledd some of the best and important shipping extensions for Magento websites.
Dutch PostNL (Parcelware)
Dutch PostNL (Parcelware) magento shipping extension with letter logic (brievenbus pakje), all rates national and international, it is compatible with all Magento community versions.
Meanbee Royal Mail Domestic and International Shipping
One of the beautiful creations from Meanbee, Meanbee Royal Mail Domestic and International Shipping extension generates calculated shipping price for all Royal Mail shipping methods.
WebShopApps MatrixRate
The MatrixRate is a FREE and popular magento shipping extension that enables you to offer multiple shipping options to your customer based on their locations and regions. With this shipping extension you can define multiple shipping rates according to destination, shipping method, weight, price and quantity.
Premium MatrixRate extension gives you even more control over your shipping rates. You can even offer multiple shipping options to your customers according to their destination.
Shipping Extension for DHL Express, Australia Post & more
STATSHIPIT is the shipping solution for the DHL Express and domestic couriers from Australia and New Zealand, including Australia Post EParcel, Fastways, CourierPost, NZ Couriers + more.
Magento Shipping Extensions by Amasty
Best magento shipping extensions from Amasty. Get even more control over shipping methods using listed all shipping extensions and give even enhanced and happy shopping experience to your buyers.
Top Magento Search Extensions
Tired of getting irrelevant search results for your customer? An effective search results can really impact impressively on store conversions. In many case customers revisiting eCommerce websites are more likely to head straight for search box. Thus it is important for retailers to retrieve best possible, relevant and accurate search to give them spot on results.
Below we have compiled few best Search Extensions that further improve your store search functionality.
Sooqr for Magento
Search ― Search Sphinx Ultimate
Search Autocomplete + Search Suggest
Celebros ConversionPro V8
Search ― Advanced Sphinx Search Pro
Solr Bridge Search
SLI Systems
Better Store Search
Advanced Search by aheadWorks
Here you can read more about Must have Magento Extensions
If you have any good Magento extensions to recommend and aren’t included in the list, please let us know in below comment section.
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