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If Joomla site go-you have, you need to install multiple components, so that functionality is not natively supported by Joomla (yet). For example, is a site map is a must for SEO. Newsletter subscription is a must for lead generation. Google Analytics is a must for your understanding of your visitor behavior on your website. And there are a few more features that most small businesses would find it very useful. So we have compiled a list of 10free must-have Joomla extensions, including a toddler installed and enabled to receive:

Xmap – generates automatically a sitemap element on your web page. Every time you add or delete a page, your page is automatically updated card to get.

CcNewsletter – a simple sign up for newsletter component with subscriber list management capabilities. The display understands your CSS template, but needs a little tweaking, if you want to look perfect.Reporting functions are not available, so you can test, and send your own e-mails, import and export your list of participants, but you will not be able to see how many clicked or opened your e-mail. Heck, it's free.

SimpleCalendar – this is a treasure! If you publish a calendar of events on your site, for seminars, trade shows or whatever is – this component is a Sweetie Pie. It even allows you to choose your own colors. The only two things we would have found,Amend a link back to the author (one appears tiny, non-invasive) and a "Back" arrow icon next to each listing. The two are not necessary and should appear only when needed.

Kenya's white sandy beaches – this is a very popular component in the Joomla community. It is used on this website, right here in the blog section. It works well and looks good, so we recommend it to anyone with a blog on their Joomla site.

JCE Editor -This is a very nice article Editor component. There are other – Breeders – editors for Joomla, but we love this one to one comfort: the ability to add links to your own pages using a drop-down menu and by copying a URL. Pictures too!

GTranslate – This component provides translation of your pages in 20 + languages. It does not translate modules and plugins, but it works well.

Joomla Pack – This component is a must. ItYou can backup your website online. Do not forget to click on the saved file and save it to your hard drive. The recovery of the secured file is not easy, as the actual backup, but it works very well if you learn how to do it.

MassContent – if you need due to publish articles, several at once, or have a lot of easy to publish on a daily basis, component, this is a must. You can post a blog, a press release, static items – all from one source. Sweet!

Google Verify – This plugin allows you to central review of your Joomla site in the Google Webmaster. Google will generate voila one line of code for you and you are within you need this plugin – you can statistics about your site as Google sees them (your links, your pages, your coding errors, such things).

Bigshot Google Analytics – This plugin allows you to enable Google Analytics Tracking Website Statisticson your Joomla site.
In our view, any website have these extensions installed and enabled, especially if you need SEO.

As a Joomla developer, you can on the necessity of Google Analytics on a Joomla site to add, run, maybe you want your own Analytics monitor or have a client that you can add the Analytics code so they can send visitors track will. In any case, you must know how to add Google Analytics code to your Joomla site.

The most important part of the addition of Google Analytics code is finding where the code is so placed that it appear on every page of the site. This isrelatively easy, but it works you must understand how to that of the standard HTML template change in the administration area of your Joomla installation.

The first thing you need is an account with Google. This article assumes that you already use an account with them and know how to access the code to be added to your website. Once you logged into your account, you copy all your Google Analytics tracking code. Paste it into a text program and save for the futureReference.

Next, login to the administrator area of your website. Go to Extensions> Template Manager. Choose a standard template check box and then click Edit. Edit in the page template, click on "Edit HTML". This will show your presentation of the index.php page. Select all the text, copy it and then paste this text into a program that you save in a safe place should you do damage to the original document.

Now to go back to the original file, and scroll downthe side. The second was on balance the end body tag that looks like a forward slash immediately followed by the word "body". Add the code just before the end body tag. Click "Save."

Now you have the Google Analytics code on every page of your Joomla site placed. Remember that if you templates, you must add this code, with the same procedure, in your new template.