6 Extensions for Joomla to Make it Social

In this digital age lifestyle, people are so web-oriented that it is must nowadays to promote your business and services online, so that you can reach the potential customers easily. Social Networks are one of the best ways of promotion to the general masses around the world.

Joomla a well-known CMS (Content Management System), offers various social media extensions  that allow the users to share and promote their products to the vast online community.

Here's to some of these extensions :
 

• The Ultimate Social Bookmarking Plugin : This plugin includes all the major social media bookmarking and sharing applications. It has 60 social bookmarking buttons that can be easily disabled and enabled as per your requirements.

• DiggIt : The focus of this pluign is on the major services like Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious. This plugin is best suited for the people who don't like to have excess of options and need to be with major social networks only.

• Sociable : This plugin automatically inserts small social media bookmarking and sharing links at the bottom of the article that includes all the major social networks and even some not-so-popular also. Plugin enables you to choose the social network buttons you want to share on and to hide the ones you don't like your content to be shared on.

• Tweet Me Button : Sometimes plenty of options aren't the best if you want to emphasize on a particular social network. Tweet Me Button, as the name suggests, is a social media plugin for Twitter, allowing your visitors to send a preformatted tweet to all of their followers.

• JO Facebook Gallery : This plugin allows you to display your Facebook albums directly on your site. You don't have to leave your site to view your Facebook photos. And the plugin also enables you to have full control over the layout of the slideshow.

• Article Footer : Article Footer allows you to create your own social media plugin by inserting the code at the footer of each post. It enables you to put your favorite social media site at the footer of the article with your selected images.

Conclusion : We all know that social media extensions have proved to be a great medium to promote a website. And with the help of above mentioned Joomla extensions, you can establish an effective social media strategy in no time and can leverage its power to increase your website's traffic.

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