How to enable SEO on Joomla |
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I know, there are many FAQs on Joomla SEO. I still want to point out the essential steps and related information here on teachmejoomla.com:
http://www.teachmejoomla.com/component/option,com_weblinks/Itemid,22/ http://www.teachmejoomla.com/useful-links/link-list.html Step 1: check SEF URLs requirements:There are a few requirements for SEF URLs to work properly(the other SEO configuration options work regardless you have SEF URLs enabled or disabled):
Step 2: Configure SEF URLs and rename the htaccess.txt
This step requires a FTP client or a web filemanager. (such as cPanel's Filemanager). That will allow you to rename your htaccess.txt and/or revert to non-SEf URL's if something goes wrong. A note to Windows users: Explorer does not allow leading dot filenames. To rename the file under Win32, you need to click Start->Run, then type cmd (this opens a command line when you hit OK) then change dir to your local joomla folder (e.g. cd "c:\easyphp\www\joomla" <ENTER>), and issue the following command: ren htaccess.txt .htaccess If unsuccesful, go to step 3. Step 3: I screwed upDon't worry! It happens all the time. Reverting. Here's how it's done: Save the configuration.php and you're back to non-sef, but working URLs. Resources
Thanks David Palmer you sorted me out alot especially on the redirects for error handling Enabling apache mod_rewrite on Joomla for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to get Search Engine Friendly URLs (WAMP) Good Article but incomplete. Many Joomla sites go wrong after making the changes you suggest, most common being the 404 errors. Great article, thanks. Very helpful. Following this article I manged to make my Joomla links SEF-y so thanks and keep up the good work. Thanks a lot. It worked. My client gave me ftp access only and I made the joomla site seo friendly url by renaming the htaccess.txt and editing the configuration file.. Pretty useful info on making joomla SE friendly, esp for newbies. Thank you. Thank for sharing your knowledge. I was also getting 500 error pages before reading this nice article. I gave a few try and sorted the stuff out. Thanks. 9. Solved29-10-2008 14:48 Tudor Thanks for your feedback. the glitch is solved, at least for FF3 and IE7 10. can't read posts29-10-2008 12:27 keefrichards Is the owner of this site aware of the text running in to the columns making it difficult to read? Thanks for sharing this info I love joomla not sure you know this, but your main center column here is squished in between the two outer columns and as a result the lines get cut off... VERY annoying! You may want to look into that. Hey great information I have been trying to find out how to get rid of those ugly titles for ages I did everything as follows and can see the new url written when I hover over my links but none of them work. I keep getting 404 erros. Here's an example link for one of the albums in the easygallery component: http://www.example.com/main//component/option,com_easygallery/act,categories/cid,47/Itemid,99999999/ whoah! i changed htaccess.txt to .htaccess then getting server error? Many thanks for the article this is great as we have numerous clients who use Joomla and we want to standardise how they are all configured. Nice Article. If you are going to do this, make sure your web server users Apache. Server software such as Zeus does not work with .htaccess re-write, even though they say they have workarounds for it. I persisted with Zeus and re-writes for 2 months, only to give up and change hosting companies. You're right, but artio joomsef has the capability to 301 non-sef urls to sef urls, for consistency. This option is available in configuration, if you have the latest version. If your site pages are indexed in Google with an old non-sef url and then you add the SEF friendly URLs to your site, Google may regard the new URL as duplicate content and it won't put the pages in the primary index or index it atl. Hi, 22. SerrBizSEF - Joomla SEO03-10-2007 01:31 Good stuff.But, users should be aware that the default Joomla SEF can cause multiple URLS for ONE content item. This is considered spam in the search engines.To fix this, we created SerrBizSEF. Write Comment |
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