SEF Components for SEO - Website Marketing

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July 1, 2008

SEO and Search Engine Friendly url’s are vital for any website. Not only will the search engines enjoy feeding on your website, it will also help promote your page rank and increase website traffic. Today we take a look at a few SEF components for Joomla.

sh404SEF

sh404SEF rewrites Joomla URL to a more user-friendly format (SEF URL or URL rewriting): mysite.com/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=69&id=34… becomes mysite.com/en/sh404SEF-and-url-rewriting/list-of-available-plugins.html).

It is also a security component and manages title and meta tags : automatic tags, or manual for every page. It works with or without .htaccess file. Fully Joomfish compatible.

Caching system for high speed and very small DB queries overhead. Support many components natively but uses also sef_ext from OpenSEF/SEF Advanced.

VirtueMart, Fireboard, Community Builder, mosetsTree, HotProperty, Sobi2, Docman, myBlog, iJoomla Magazine,News Portal, Remository and more supported natively.

SSL switch, automatic 301 redirection from non-sef to sef and from Joomla SEF to sh404SEF, insert Google news style numerical ID,.. Many backend parameters to control URL construction behavior.

Artio JoomSEF

This component will rewrite your Joomla! URLs not to be only Search Engine Friendly, but also to be human easily understandable. Provides support for multilingual sites using JoomFish. Enables full customization of wide-range of meta tags for any URL in your site! Works with both with Apache and IIS. May be easily updated on-line. Allows you to configure your 404 page.

NuSEF

This is a “rescue” of the popular OpenSEF component which has since been abandoned by its developers. The current version is an exact copy of the latest OpenSEF release.

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