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[hsyong Friend hsyongJoin date: April 2009Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

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Hi,

The built in SEF feature seems to work fine.

Are there any strong reasons to use other modules like Sh404SEF or JoomSEF?

Thanks.

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#299776

The built in SEF is Search Engine Friendly, it converts complex URLS into keyword rich simple urls, does almost nothing for your search engine ranking

Artio JoomSEF and SH404 are for SEO
Search Engine Optimization, this is what you use to optimize your site for ranking on the search engines and it includes your titles and meta tags, you have a choice of autogenerated or customized. Every page of your site needs its own targeted unique set of tags.

I prefer Artio JoomSEF

[hsyong Friend hsyongJoin date: April 2009Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#299780

Thanks for the explanation.

Besides ranking, are there any technical issues with the built in SEF? I’ve heard about duplicate URLs or such (can’t really remember tho)

Regards.

[Arvind Chauhan Moderator Arvind ChauhanJoin date: September 2014Posts: 3835Downloads:74Uploads:92 Thanks: 1240 Thanked: 1334 times in 848 posts]

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<em>@hsyong 122400 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks for the explanation.

Besides ranking, are there any technical issues with the built in SEF? I’ve heard about duplicate URLs or such (can’t really remember tho)

Regards.</blockquote>

I prefer joomla inbuilt SEF, over artio and Sh404. I have used Artil on one of my J 1.10.15 site and now when i try to disable it, it messes up all the urls and just wont let joomla to go back to default.

To me Joomla inbuilt sef is much safer than 3rd party sef, certainly not all are going to agree me on this. I have not encountered duplicate URL’s using Joomla sef so far and it sounds impossible.

Joomla inbuilt sef supports commonly used components, certainly the url’s generated by artio or sh404 are more attractive than the inbuilt one.

regards

arvind

[hsyong Friend hsyongJoin date: April 2009Posts: 11Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2]

#299792

Testing inbuilt SEF now. It seems if an article belongs to any section/category which is accesible thru the main menu (or any menu) will not have the duplicate URL issue… else it will have URL like:

http://www.mydomain/component/content/article/36-news/78-be-our-agent-reseller.html … instead of the normal http://www.mydomain/sectionname/categoryname/78-be-our-agent-reseller.html

Correct?

A new question:

For testing, I changed the article title and alias of a sample article with the article editor.

Original:
http://www.mydomain.com/world/europe/145-poll-of-polls-obamas-national-lead-triples.html

Changed to:
http://www.mydomain.com/world/europe/145-my-article-name.html

Now, i can access the SAME article using BOTH of the url. Is it normal? Why is the old/original URL still accessible? (cache is not enabled)

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