It is a sole desire of every emerchant to get huge traffic on their website. The technique that is used to achieve this goal is to do best SEO of the site. In today’s world, the most important entity of the SEO is a well managed articles blog. If you go further deep into, a blog is successful only when it has updated, unique and fresh content focusing the needs of readers.

Here you can focus the user’s needs by publishing

• Latest updates of your niche.
• How to and tutorial type posts

In this way, even if you are not marketing your products at large. Your website will be open on every desktop. This is of course a bigger success for an emerchant.

Coming to Opencart that don’t offer blog option by default. I have gathered a list of top 5 free Opencart blog extensions and I hope that you will definitely like any of them.

1.     Free Opencart PAV Blog Module

This free blog module is loaded with plenty of features and a catchy design. On the landing page, you can show blog categories, recent comments, recent posts etc. Following are its top features;

• Friendly administration panel
• Comment with captcha
• East configuration
• SEO Optimization options e.g. set metas

2.     Free Opencart Simple Blog Module

This is also one of the most useful blog modules for your opencart store. As depicted from the name, it creates a simple blog on your store with only the necessary features. Some of its features are;

• Multi store compatibility
• Multi language support
• Compatible with all themes

3.     Free Opencart TLT Blog

This free blog module is used to publish articles on your ecommerce store. This tool supports multi-language and even metas settings can be done in the desired language. It is SEO friendly such that you can set the on page for your content also. Following are its top features;

• Create multiple categories
• Category menu
• Article creation date
• Author bio
• Show related articles on product pages
• Post scheduling
• Google Sitemap feed
• Support schema
• SEO optimized URLs

4.     Free Opencart Boss Best Blog Extension

This blog module is loaded with all the necessary features like categories, menus, widgets etc. This extension has a nice backend to post articles and do the necessary SEO settings. Following are its top features;

• Work with all versions of Opencart i.e. 1.5.4 and previous versions
• Work with all browsers
• Compatible with all themes
• Blog listing dimension adjustment from backend through CSS file.

5.     Free Opencart Blog with VQMOD plus OCMOD Extension

Like the others, this free extension is having the same features like categories, recent posts, recent comments, archives, tags and recent posts. This extensions works with Opencart 1.4x upto 2.0x. Following are its top features;

• Works with VQMod and without VQMod
• Works with major browsers
• Compatible with all themes
• Dimension altering for blog posts view

Given below some other free blog extensions for Opencart;

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=18161

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=18767

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=19388

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=24220

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=20563

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=3679

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=17265

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=16052

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=1286

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=21431

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=27416

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=24542