Making your Joomla URLs Google friendly with
sh404SEF plugin (Very simple Joomla link SEO)
For 2 days already I'm playing with
Joomla and learning this CMS basic
usage.
Along with that I've been assigned a task to optimize a Joomla
based restaurant website to play well with Search Engines.
After some time researching in Google I've found a number of
Joomla extensions which seemed very hepful, however I still
haven't tested all of them and I'm still more or less in a process
of gettint to know the joomla framework and it's
capabilities.
Anyways I've succeeded in installing the
sh404SEF extension which I've found as a recommended and the
most easiest one available out there which is able to rewrite the
joomla site URL links to be attractive and more meaningful for
Search Engine (BOTs) Crawlers.
Nevertheless it appears that the
sh404SEF plugin is no more
available in the official website for free and it's no longer GPL
licensed.
So practicly it has almost disappeared from the net, it took me
quite an effort to actually find a link to a downloadable version
of the plugin. Finally I found
this blog
containing a download link to the file
Because obviously the sh404SEF joomla extensions seems to be slowly
disappear from the net I decided to make a mirror
you can download the Joomla com_sh404SEF-15.1.0.20_Beta_build_237
plugin for free here
Installing the plugin is very straight forward.
Open the Joomla plugin Installer
You need to go to after logging in to joomla admin to:
Extensions -> Plugin Manager
Then you should install the plugin with the URL installer.
Immediately after installation read the Install and configuration
instructions, on the README page to appear you will also notice a
link which will lead you directly to the sh404SEF configuration
panel from there you can tune many things related to Search Engine
Optimization and there you can enable the url links
rewritting.