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[jhickl Friend jhicklJoin date: October 2010Posts: 44Downloads:20Uploads:4 Thanks: 10]

#197299

Hey guys,

I’m currently migrating my old Joomla 1.5 Site to Joomla 3.3.
So far it went pretty smoothly, but I’ve got one major Problem:
I want to keep my google links to the blogposts working, but the SEO tool I used stripped the URL’s of their hyphen.
Because of that I want to do this for the k2 posts on the new Site too.

Is there an easy way to emulate this on the new site (maybe using T3 or something)?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Also, the infinite scrolling doesn’t seem to work correctly, it skips like 16 articles.

[alexsmirnov Friend alexsmirnovJoin date: July 2012Posts: 786Downloads:1Uploads:226 Thanks: 226 Thanked: 163 times in 119 posts]

#533218

Hi there,

To customise your new URLs to a specific format you may want to install one of the SEF URL extensions, like sh404SEF etc. T3 itself doesn’t deal with SEF URL parameters.

Hope this helps,

Regards

Alex

[jhickl Friend jhicklJoin date: October 2010Posts: 44Downloads:20Uploads:4 Thanks: 10]

#533221

Ok, I already tried one, but that just messed the whole URL up, while not being able to strip it correctly. Maybe I’ll have to try a different one.
I was just wondering, since I’ve read a few tutorials that said to change some lines of the templates index.php, but for Argo it only seems to reference T3.

[alexsmirnov Friend alexsmirnovJoin date: July 2012Posts: 786Downloads:1Uploads:226 Thanks: 226 Thanked: 163 times in 119 posts]

#533222

Migrating from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 3 is a big job and I doubt you will be able to undertake it without compromises. I personally think that URLs format is not the major factor for search engines ranking, even if you manage to format your URLs to include hyphen.

After all, if your new web-site has a professional look and feel (and why wouldn’t it since your are JA Developer member with all the goodies at your disposal), is easy to navigate and offers to its visitors unique, fresh and valuable content, then whether its URL contain hyphen or not won’t be important.

By all means, keep sh404SEF on your radar. It may come in pretty handy 😉

Regards

Alex

[jhickl Friend jhicklJoin date: October 2010Posts: 44Downloads:20Uploads:4 Thanks: 10]

#533223

You’re right, it isn’t easy, and a few compromises had to be made, but there are a few tools out there, that can do the bulk of the migration, e.g. the database.

And the issue is less the being search engine friendly, but more not losing the already existing links. I just don’t want everyone coming from google seeing an error 404. AFAIK hyphen are quite a bit better than, well, no hyphen, because google treats them as spaces, seperating the words and thus indexing them for every single word in the alias.

I’ve already looked at sh404SEF, since it’s implemented in K2 a little. I don’t know if you’re familiar with K2, but since a few versions it includes sh404SEF for its own SEO, complete with character replacement for non ASCII characters, custom prefixes, basically everything you might need. But I didn’t manage to make it remove the hyphen from the URL. Am I missing something or is that only possible with the “full” version?

[jhickl Friend jhicklJoin date: October 2010Posts: 44Downloads:20Uploads:4 Thanks: 10]

#533287

I now circumvented the problem by replacing the hyphen in the database, that way the old links can persist, but the new ones have a more modern format.

Has anyone an idea on why the infinite scroll (as well as the regular pagination) skips articles?

[alexsmirnov Friend alexsmirnovJoin date: July 2012Posts: 786Downloads:1Uploads:226 Thanks: 226 Thanked: 163 times in 119 posts]

#533289

Glad to see you’ve found a workaround for your URLs and thanks for sharing your solution here.

Could you please create a new thread with your question on the scroll/pagination for our team to work on?

Regards,

Alex

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