On our website I am using free version of JoomSEF. For me, quite difficult to adjust components to help me solve support by Artio. Support the free version does not give as standard. Nevertheless, I got all my questions very quickly and professionally answer. Personally, it was David J. Company Artio I can only recommend

This is the best SEF tool for Joomla!



It has import/export of URLs, ease of use url manger, every option that you can imagine and supports many 3rd party extensions. I use this sef component from about 2 years.



The only con is that is little heavy for some of the host providers

I do not understand the low rating of this product. The product is simple and practical. Very easy. I've installed and running in a minute. I believe that you should not put in the explanation of this product that you put a link to your site, people may think that link is very large and it will bother, but the link is very small, negligible. I think the application is very good, very simple. Maybe have created problems for other users who used online shops etc ... i read it here, but for my simple blog has helped me a lot. A great product, a great job. Thank you very much.

I have tried this extension for a client website still running on Joomla 1.5 with Virtuemart 1.1.9

This extension is definitely useless, at least in its free version. Ok, it's able to create sef urls for the Joomla articles, but the Joomla built in sef engine does exactly the same, if not better!

When it comes to make sef urls for Virtuemart, you will discover that this brilliant product will simply ruin your site. ALL the urls generated for Virtuemart,products, categories, whatever just point to the same unique url.

If you look deeper into the settings, you eventually find that you can disable their crippled sef handling for Virtuemart and use the default Joomla router.

So this is what you get. A sef engine that does nothing but adds a back link to all of your pages...

I don't want to bash their business model. They handle it the way they like after all.

But I simply don't understand the point in pretending to distribute a free extension, when it actually does nothing. It does not even tease you to purchase the commercial version. It just irritates you because you lost precious time installing (I would recommend on a test server), discovering it does nothing useful and then uninstalling it.

IMHO this is a product to avoid. Sorry but there are much better extensions available here.

Be aware, the free version places a link to the author's website in the footer on every page in your website. It also automatically turns itself on and has settings to rewrite all of your urls using title links instead of aliases upon install. It also decided to replace my custom designed 404 page automatically.



This is such horrible web design practice to change everything on your website upon first install. It's always good to test things and review the extension before going live! I had it live on the client's site for a good 20 minutes before I noticed. I learned my lesson to always always always use a test site because of developers like this. Authors, you need to have it disabled upon install and have the rewriting urls be set to alias' to begin with, since that is how Joomla's default is.



It also seems to lack a vast majority of the useful features and extensions unless you purchase it. I only found about 1 or 2 useful things in the free version that are somewhat useful. I'm uninstalling it. I probably would have considered purchasing it for all of the other functionality it looks like it gives to paid users, but with everything mentioned above, I'll pass.



Sorry for a bad review, I don't like to post bad reviews unless I feel like someone else might find it useful information and to hopefully help the developer decide on issues to possibly fix.

The component after a little coaxing and changes does everything that we want. The main problems were regarding the virtuemart plugin but nothing was too much for David and he helped us plenty.

Thanks

Simon

This extension is silly-looking on the surface of it.

The extension is advertised with a name containing the word "Free".

Though in fact when going to download from the website, the options you're met with are "Purchase paid version for EUR 26.90 or TRY free version".

Secondly it's advertised as compatible with Joomla 2.5, but in fact both JoomSEF 3 and 4 are compatible only with Joomla 1.5 and 1.6.



What a laughable joke covered by a stylished website.

I had terrible problems with SEF and tried lots of other components before I tried JoomSEF. Wish I had tried it first, because it fixed all my SEF issues.



It's slick, professional, well designed and has really good support.



I use it with the paid Virtuemart SEF extension, and it was the only one that actually worked.



Great job Artio!

I just changed from some other extension, which was maybe more flexibile but crashed any component not supported with extensions. So Joom SEF works just fine, and gives you enough otpions to cut out most error and conflicts.

I have use Joomsef for a long while so i want to share my comment about it. This is not true that Joomsef cant handle large site. I have large site with +250 articles and 80k+ (yes 80000+) of products in catalogue (Virtuemart) and JoomSEF handle it with no problem in a normal non dedicated server. My friends other sites runs with commercial JoomSEF too without any problems with kunena, joomfish, jcomments. Support might be better but joomla community can help too if any problem exist. Is a great value product and really do his job!