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Best SEF component for joomla
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- xdev
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I want to hear the community speak. What is in you opinion the best SEF url component for joomla. A plus it would be that it would work good with other components like Virtuemart...or have the option to exclude them (to avoid errors).
Thank you!
Daniel - "Everything is designed. Few things are designed well."
— Brian Reed
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- JEM
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Start with the core, see if it works.
Basic Core SEF:
If joomla is in the root; htdocs, or public_html...
In Global Configurations, Search Engine Friendly URLs Yes, Use Apache mod_rewrite Yes, Add suffix to URLs No.
Change htaccess.txt to .htaccess.
If it’s in a folder, you need to change the # RewriteBase / to reflect the path of your site.
Change:
# RewriteBase /
to:
RewriteBase /(the name of the folder joomla is in)
If that doesn't work, search or post here:
forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=544
If you are using a 3rd part component, contact the developer.
Beyond that there are components such as Artio and sh404SEF. - Thanks,
jim
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- Roeland_A!
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- Joomace is also worth a try.
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- xdev
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Ben Lee wrote:
Just FYI, most SEF extensions actually make SEO worse!Hi Ben,
Make sure you're choosing SEF for the right reasons and not trying to improve SEO through using SEF.
That was the main idea...to improve the site's SEO through SEF. Are you saying by this I will make it worse? How come? Can you expand a little here?
I'm aware of the fact that some SEF extensions may create double content ... is this the problem? Actually if SEF would only impact the "aesthetics" and user friendliness, I would rather not use it
because this site must have a good SEO.
Please give more details on your statement.
Kind Regards,
Daniel - "Everything is designed. Few things are designed well."
— Brian Reed
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- Ben Lee
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Here's a really good article that explains the functions of urls and some of the what's and why's when it comes to changing urls from what the core system uses:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/09/dynamic-urls-vs-static-urls.html
If SEO is your goal, I would stick with Joomla's core rewrite functionality...which is actually just taking advantage of the apache rewrite module on your server. Adding just about any of the SEF extensions you see that promise better SEO, really just adds large tables to your database and then connects the dots...if you want to go to this real url, we're going to make it look like this. Extra steps like that defeat what Google is trying to find and crawl for.
Google spends a HUGE amount of their time and energy making sure that there search features beat any short cuts or cheats that extensions promise. What might work this week, will surely be re-written by Google next week. Making sure your article titles and category and section names, content text, image file names and descriptions all match up are a much better way to legitimately get picked up by search crawlers.
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- Mark Orciuoli
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Ben,
With the response you mentioned below would implementing this be what JEM mentioned belowI would stick with Joomla's core rewrite functionality...which is actually just taking advantage of the apache rewrite module on your server.
Start with the core, see if it works.
Basic Core SEF:
If joomla is in the root; htdocs, or public_html...
In Global Configurations, Search Engine Friendly URLs Yes, Use Apache mod_rewrite Yes, Add suffix to URLs No.
Change htaccess.txt to .htaccess.
If it’s in a folder, you need to change the # RewriteBase / to reflect the path of your site.
Change:
# RewriteBase /
to:
RewriteBase /(the name of the folder joomla is in)
If that doesn't work, search or post here:
forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=544
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