sh404SEF

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Introduction

Site Management, SEF, SEO & Metadata, URL Redirection, Social Share

After more than 15 years of duty, sh404SEF won't be ported to Joomla 4. To move to Joomla 4, please consider our newer extensions, released over the last couple years, including 4SEF to maintain your site SEF URLs (see Related extensions on this page or visit our website) and 4SEO for metadata.
sh404SEF is discontinued from August 17, 2023 - same as Joomla 3 end of support. Please update to 4SEF and 4SEO to maintain your URLs and metadata.

Joomla 4 notice

We created sh404SEF® for Joomla with SEO in mind. sh404sef helps you improve your search engine rankings and get more traffic to your website. Satisfy many of the Google recommendations for search engine optimization with just a few clicks.
sh404sef also includes many security features.

sh404SEF® is the most popular and longest developed Joomla seo extension. We are dedicated, full-time Joomla professionals who work each and every day to bring you the very best extensions and prompt support. Our staff have over 20 years of combined experience with Joomla (and Mambo) and we maintain some of the longest, continually developed Joomla add-ons available.

Brand new documentation set, including "Getting started" as well as other specialized short videos.

Features:
* sh404SEF rewrites Joomla URL to user-friendly format (SEF URL or URL rewriting): mysite.com/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=69&id=34
becomes mysite.com/en/sh404SEF-and-url-rewriting/list-of-available-plugins.html but it does in a way that prevent Joomla standard SEF duplicate content issues.

Important: from version 4.17, we automatically add robots meta tag required for full visibility in Google search results.
NEW: Support for Google Analytics version 4
NEW: Full Turkish translation
NEW: insert a QRCode anywhere, on any page
NEW: Redesigned Google Analytics reports, can now also display on frontend without having to log-in
NEW: block requests based on simple rules
NEW: Redirect mutiple URLs together, no more using .htaccess
NEW: Add canonical tags to mutiple URLs in one go
NEW: URL shortener can now shorten any URL, not just of current site
NEW: extended Structured data support: social profiles, corporate contacts, logos
Connector with wbAMP, our Accelerated Mobile Pages for Joomla plugin
Automatic redirect of 404s errors to most similar page
Google Sitename, Google breadcrumb and Google sitelinks search JSON+LD markup
Using oAuth2 for Analytics authorization
Twitter Cards support
Google Analytics Universal support
Google Tags manager support
all output through JLayout, easily override in template
Create and insert Open Graph data: quickly and easily add social media buttons to your entire site to allow sharing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linkedin and Pinterest.
Integrated Google Analytics reports display
Automatically generate tiny URLs (shURLs) for your content
Full urls and bulk meta data management
Multi-lingual support
Easily redirect 404s to suggested SEF URLS
Instantly add global support for canonical URLs (add rel="canonical" HTTP headers)
Removes automatically duplicate URLs, a common problem with Joomla websites
Create human ear and search engine friendly (SEF) URLs
Control URL re-write mode on a per-application basis
Support for Google News URL format
Easily customize the page title and page description with bulk updater
Create customized error pages (i.e. 404) with relevant links, suggest best match pages
Harden against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS)
Harden against malicious page requests
Limit flooding attacks
Protect input forms such as the contact page from spam (using Project Honey Pot)
Control site access from suspicious domains (using IP address whitelisting and blacklisting)

We Support many third-party SEF plugins via the standard Joomla installer.
Components we support natively include: VirtueMart, K2, FlexiContent, Kunena, Jomsocial, Community Builder and more.

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Great component!

Vladimir (3).
Posted on 30 August 2012

I use SH404SEF with Yootheme template, K2 and Virtuemart (Joomla 1.5).

It works out of the box. Support is quick and efficient.

I experienced a few minor problems but it turned out that SH404SEF had nothing to do with them. It was about general system configuration.

Actually anyone involved with Joomla needs to have a piece of mind to be able to troubleshoot possible issues using available resources, and that comes with experience. Support forum, documentation etc are excellent. Many extensions for 3-rd party components are included in the package so you don't have to pay for them.

I am totally happy with SH404SEF. Recommend.

fast and efficient support

Zoltán Nagy (1).
Posted on 28 August 2012

I use it for almost a year and until now I did not had any major problems. Support is professional fast and efficient.

Great Product

Travis Coats (2).
Posted on 21 August 2012

If you take the time, this component can do awesome things for your SEO and URL management. Three cuts above the rest!

Super Extension. Been using it for more than 3 yeears

Alvin (6).
Posted on 16 August 2012

We have been using the sh404Sef on our website icetheme.com on more that 3 years now and we are very happy with it.

I love its performance and how easy is to edit and modify a bunch of URL's.

The only minus is that there is not yet support for DocMan.

However this is recommend extensions.

Thank You and keep up the good work.

Owner's reply: Hi Alvini,

Thanks a lot for your continued support and positive comment!

Docman is supported as sh404SEF transparently use any plugin available, so it will use Docman router.php file, if any.

If this is not working as expected, please contact us again, we'll sort it out.

Rgds

Top product, great support

wudry wudryson (10).
Posted on 07 August 2012

Installed and configured out of the box and works as advertised.

I had one little problem and got the answer immediatly, perfect!

Great stuff.

Nightmare extension

Karamfil Rozov (1).
Posted on 25 July 2012

Stay away from this extension. It will cause you a lot of problems and you will suffer.

The support is non-existing, they only blame you for all of the component issues. It is never the case the are wrong or there is a bug. This is the first developer I see that claims that his extension has no bugs at all.

You will simply waste your time and money with sh404.

It causes a lot of errors, breaks the work of other extensions (i.e. those dealing with Facebook) and doesn't solve any of the issues it claims. It slows the web site significantly and has a horrible user interface.

My advice is: STAY AWAY FROM SH404.

Owner's reply: Hello Karamfil.rozov

Let me clear this first: I am the one and only developer of sh404SEF, and I never claimed there was no bug in it. Aside from being a stupid thing to say, as every programmer knows, it would be pretty difficult to claim: if you just look at the changelog of each new version, we usually fix a bunch of them ;)

What we claim though is that when an actual bug is reported, we fix it, as quickly as we can.

I have searched this morning our support forum for threads dealing with "breaking other Facebook extensions", and couldn't find any that were not solved. And even the most recent one is from May 30 (more than 2 months ago). Haven't found any user name similar to what you are using here either.
If you feel like so, please contact me directly by email and provide me with a link to the support forum thread, so that I can review it personnally.

Now the only thing I can think of is if you are trying to use both sh404SEF Facebook (and other Social features) at the same time that you want to use another extension providing social buttons. You cannot do that: it's one or the other. The fix is simple: disable either the other extension or sh404SEF social feature.
Of course, if you disable sh404SEF social feature, you will loose its ability to hook up social buttons with analytics and provide usage data right in the admin panel of your site. Including for Pinterest buttons, which is something you can't even do with Google Analytics itself.

I won't comment on "causing a lot of errors", "doesn't solve any of the issues it claims", "horrible user interface" as you don't describe what you dislike. I do think that over the last 6 years quite a few Joomla! users have been of the opposite opinion, and some of them have said so right here fortunately.

Rgds

Great extension! Only a little bit frustrating

Waseem Sadiq (2).
Posted on 10 July 2012

On the whole sh404 is an excellent extension - it does exactly what it says on the tin!

The only small frustration would be that javascript used for the control panel pages conflicts with the codemirror editor in Joomla 2.5 It took a little while (and some considerable googling) to figure out why some config screens would save yet others wouldn't

Anyhow, after tearing my hair out for a few hours I managed to work out what was causing the problem, switched editors temporarily and viola, fixed!

Significantly more hits

alarian (10).
Posted on 10 July 2012

For all the Dummies ;-) who are giving this extension a bad review:

1. I am also a Dummie, but I can read! Is to say that this extension is documented really well. And: It is not always the developers fault if something does not work!

2. I test (from experience) ANY extension for my website extensively on a local server first until I know that I can safely install it on my online website. Then nothing bad and no unpleasant surprise can happen.

What I like most about this extension:

1. Scope

At first you will be struck down of the configuration options in this extension. But on a local server (eg xampp) it's really easy and relaxed work to get to know this extension. Took with me about 1 hour (ok, maybe a little bit more ).

Plenty of presets with a very articulate tooltips (in German).

Automatically generated SEF urls can be changed effortlessly. Example: "ü" is by default changed to "u". In the editor, I have changed "u" in "ue"... klick on save - that's it ... just awesome!

The 404 management is a charm! sh404sef lists all the URLs, which triggered a 404 error. Here, you can redirect these URLs with two mouse clicks to a SEF URL. It is so easy I could hardly believe it, but it works (I have tested it).

2. Usability

With a little good will I have worked in quickly and now I love this extension! This is really worth every penny. Well documented, understandable Tooltips everywhere. Thats why after a short time this extension is very easy to use. For those who are too lazy to read the documantation before: do not give bad rating ;-).

3. What does this extension

Here are some figures: Before the installation I had an Alexa traffic rank global/de 480.000/21.000. After only 36 hours I'm on 420.000/16.500. The hits on my site have increased during this period, according to Piwik (Version 1.8.2) by about 30%. This is too much to be a coincidence IMO. The length of stay has increased significantly during the bounce rate dropped significantly.

4. My future request

A way to integrate Piwik into sh404sef would be awesome.

Even so, you get 5 stars from a happy, dummi user :-D. Please Keep it up. BTW, how much would you pay for an expert who makes all these optimization for your site by hand.

sh404sef Super extension

Janet Pannekoek (2).
Posted on 09 July 2012

This extension is super and the support also. I had some problems, but Jimie of anything-digital had solved it in no-time.

Thanks, i highly recommend this extension it is word to pay for it.

greetings

Janet of the Netherlands

Fantastic, love it

Barnaby Dixon (4).
Posted on 25 June 2012

As a fellow developer, I wanted to give two thumbs up to a great component. I have been using SH404Sef for years, and I highly recommend it to all Joomla users.

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sh404SEF

Version:: 4.24.7
Developer:: Yannick Gaultier
Last updated:: Jul 26 2023
1 year ago
Date added:: May 27 2007
License:: GPLv2 or later
Type:: Paid download
Related extension :: 4SEF
Includes:: c p
Compatibility:: J3

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