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.

We use this extension regular to improve the SEF url's of the sites we do build. It is not only easy to install, but it also works great. Also when you need support, you get quick and accurate support.



Keep on doing the job like this!
Not only is this product terrific, but the folks over at Anything Digital even helped with a problem that wasn't related to their software. These guys are great.

A+ Support



Posted on 01 April 2012
Been with sh404sef since the free days. Best bargain on the internet. Would not consider having a site without it. And the support... 3 am fighting with an issue. Speedy reply. Problem solved. Love the way they continue to improve the product, too.

very good



Posted on 20 March 2012
very good extension

too bad that sitemap is not possible with it
Given the difficulties of handling SEF in Joomla, this is THE product to make it easy. I have been using an older version for several years and now have to move a successful site to a new server with a different configuration.



Having had problems in replicating the URLs (and failure to do that could wipe my site off the map), I posed a question on the forum and had the answer within an hour or so.



This is a first-class product that does an excellent job despite having to work in conjunction with an ever-changing code-base at Joomla and in numerous third-party extensions.



Recommended.
After having invested non-successful hours into joomla 1.5.25 onboard sef and mod_rewrite I decided to give sh404sef a try. Should have done it earlier. Installing, re-upload htaccess file and activating the component took me less than 3 minutes and everything turned out to run perfect instantly. No more hassle with sef-links (100 % success. Before installing sh404sef the quota was 90 % - no idea why ...), easy to handle 404-errors and additionally google analytics intergration a cakewalk. Give your homepage a real boost and install that great component! Thank you Victor

Perfect!



Posted on 15 March 2012
Perfect product, using it for several years now. Roadmap is good with updates on a regular base and support is quick and good.



Recommended for every one who wants to create SEO urls.
The product is fine, if compared to others, there is nothing all that special about it but it works as it should. You do have a heck of a learning curve but then, it's SEO, what do you expect.



What I don't like about this product is that you buy it, you contribute to the forums by asking questions, perhaps answering some and generally helping the company in developing the product through your feedback.



As soon as your subscription runs out, guess what, you have ZERO access to support let alone forums. The GREED of companies like this and JomSocial has become a terrible practice which is fast spreading throughout the Joomla third party developer community.



Joomla is a great CMS but all of the TPD's have become terribly greedy with their 3, 6 and 12 month subscriptions. For the average user, this will scare many away to other CMS's when they realize just how crazy expensive it can get to run a site these days.



That is not the spirit of the Internet and supporting these companies in only ensuring that this spirit will be lost to pure commercialization at some point soon.
Owner's reply: Hi rightfoot

I'm glad you like the extension itself, and sorry support was not to your liking. Reading your review however, I'm not sure this is your real problem.
We believe forum is an efficient method to provide support. Please read reviews above and below yours, and you'll see many people do appreciate it.
Yes, after subscription has expired, you don't have access to support. Not sure how it can be otherwise.

Please consider also that:

- coming from a totally free of charge background, I have always made sure sh404SEF price is kept as low as possible. For instance, it is currently less than half of other extensions you mentioned
- subscription to sh404SEF is all inclusive: no separate support, plugins, doc whatever
- no restriction on domains, even for support
- we only have 1 year subscription, no short ones

You might find it to be expensive to build a web site today, but that's not because of sh404SEF. I won't comment on the spirit of the internet, too large a thing to handle ;)

But please search for "selling free software" and you'll find a page where the GPL license author strongly encourage GPL developers to charge for their software as much as they can, so that GPL-licensed software grows and replaces proprietary products.
We have just changed that to ".. charge as little as we can...", I hope most people like it that way ;)

Rgds
If we put the article on the front page or access it via the joomla! article name, it shows up fine. With sh404SEF turned on, the friendly URLs return a 404 error.
Owner's reply: Hi,
Not sure I really understand what you mean. Are you trying to acces a page byi its old, Joomla SEF url? Or only by using the article title? Have you set up either index.php or a htaccess file or equivalent?
I thinkn you have a basic web site setup, and you should use our tech support to get you fixed up.
Rgds
Thanks for this extension and the good support - it is great for url rewrite and seo .
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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
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4SEF
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Compatibility:
J3
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