Joomla has thousands of plugins, extentions,modules which helps to run a Joomla website easily. To optimize SEO for website in Joomla these are the best 5 plugins one can use:

# Joomap – One of the first and most important things you can do when building your site is to make sure to create a sitemap and submit it to all the major search engines. The extension shows all the menu structure, content categories and sections and can also create a Google Sitemap list.

# Joomla SEO/SEF Component - The Joomla SEO/SEF Component mainly makes your urls more search engine friendly. Instead of your urls being a mixture of numbers and letters, it allows for more understandable urls.

# SEOSimple - SEOSimple is one of the most used SEO extensions by Joomla users. On the front page, you can choose whether to use automated meta data based on what displays on the page or manually insert meta data. Other features include the ability to customize the meta data for each page.

# J!Redirect301 - This extension works just as it sounds. The plugin redirects your domains to one domain so that only one version of your site is indexed.

# JoomSEO - JoomSEO has a ton of different features, but most notably, it dynamically makes the content more search engine friendly.

Microsoft Powerpoint is the most  popular software in creating slideshows for business presentations. As most presentations have lot of data to show & produce, charts are quite often used in these slides. The common way to make Powerpoint Charts is Microsoft Graph. You cancreate several types of charts, including line, column, area and pie charts. It is quite easy to make charts in this. You can check out a nice tutorial on adding a Chart to PowerPoint.

But as more websites like www.slideshare.net is emerging the trend of making & uploading corporate presentations is growing. Though Microsoft Graph is a good option but lacks a bit in looks & animations. FusionCharts is launching a Powerpoint Charting add-on called oomfo, the product is still in beta but you can register for a sneak peek  here. The best part of it is the interactive charts & great 3d animations. You can also watch a product screenshots video to see it in action.

Facebook is one of the most successful social networking site after Myspace. The receipe f or it’s success is some nice concepts which sets it apart from other social networking site. But well that is for another post to discuss on.

So if you are a wordpress blogger you can’t igmore the power of Facebook to promote your blog, these are some of the best worpress plugins for to integrate facebook in wordpress blog.

# Facebook Connect : This plug-in makes it easy to bring Facebook to your blog. This plug-in is used in TechCrunch btw.

# Add to FaceBook : This plugin adds a footer link to add the current post or page to a Facebook Mini-Feed. While the plugin is activated a link will appear after the content of the post with the text “Share on Facebook” or the Facebook icon or both.

# Facebook Photos :  Show your Facebook photos right on your blog easily.

# Facebook Dashboard Widget : This plugin will process your Friends status updates RSS feed, your posted items feeds and/or your Facebook notifications feed, and add a widget for each to your WordPress admin dashboard.

# Facebook Posted Items : Facebook Posted Items plugin allows you to display posted items from Facebook on your blogs. The fetched post items are in unordered list and you can style them easily.

# Wordbook : Wordbook allows wordpress users to publish blog updates to their Facebook’s profile mini-feed. To use this plugin, you need to link your WordPress blog with your Facebook account.

# Gigya Socialize : It allows you to authenticate users through Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and AOL.  Also, you can update your social networking sites within your blog and invite your friends to visit your blog through this plugin.

# QuailPress : QuailPress allow you to add a button so that your readers can easily share your stories on their Facebook account.

# Friend Bookmarklet : Detects hCards, Facebook links, and Wink.com search results and allows the user to add the detected people to their WordPress links system.

# StatusPress : This plugin takes your Facebook status updates and places them in your WordPress blog.

# WassUp : This WordPress plugin for Facebook helps you to track your visitors in real time.

# Socialize Me!: Adds your blog posts to Facebook and other social networking sites.

WordPress is known to be the most popular blogging platforms, but it has moved far beyond to  be JUST a blogging platform to a fully customizable CMS solution. One can tweak wordpress to turn it into a fully functional website, a social networking site & even a shopping cart site.  There are quite a number of eCommerce plug-ins for WordPress, the most popular one is wp e-commerce plugin which you can get for free. Many of the themes use this as the base plugin for the shopping cart  functionality.

These are the best Shopping Cart Templates For WordPress :

Crafty  Cart - It’s a fresh flavoured retro style for selling t-shirts and handmade items, designed to be a starting point for any online shop. This is one of the best-  looks great, quite stable, & of course free.  It uses WP e-Commerce plugin for WordPress for functions.

Crafty Cart – Download it HERE

Vanilla Cart – This is also a good free clean & elegant theme for shopping cart sites. Similar to Crafty Cart it also uses WP e-Commerce plugin.

Vanilla Cart – Download it HERE

Shopper Press - It’s a fully featured shopping cart plugin for wordpress with it’s own set of templetes. It has free as well as paid templetes.

ShopperPress  – Download it HERE

eGoods – This is also a nice option for setting shopping website, made by designers based in Germany.

eShop – Download it HERE