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 Product!

Tio Lions (3).
Posted on 19 January 2011

I needed a better SEF tool than Joomla's built in SEF. I've also used JCal Pro, another product from anything-digital, and have found that JCal works as it's suppose to with sh404SEF installed. I had a couple of problems early on with configuration but found support to be amazing. Thanks a lot for the awesome help and extension.

Great piece of work, fast and friendly support

Balbino Fernández Revuelta (2).
Posted on 17 January 2011

I've using this extensions since Shumisha's time and the guys of Anything Digital have kept on and event extended its development to make it become a must-have extension. Congratulations!

Owner's reply: hi,
It doesn't hurt that it's still me, shumisha, doing all the development ;)

Cheers

Worth every penny!

Amanda L. Sage (6).
Posted on 17 January 2011

Getting SEF URLs to work without error can be very difficult, and with every site I do, I always run into some problem. SH404SEF is absolutely the way to go when it comes to setting up SEF URLs on your site.

SH404SEF has great support at it's back, and I've never had a problem that wasn't answered by their forum moderators. That's a huge relief knowing you have someone at your back, especially when you pay for an extension.

The only thing preventing me from giving them a 5th star is that I think their documentation could be a little more thorough, and a little more descriptive towards newbies. But since the forum is so active, you'll still find the answer sooner or later.

They've recently updated the UI and added Google Anayltics which I find totally awesome. I love the new updates.

Very good support

Jaroslav Jana (1).
Posted on 13 January 2011

We use this extension for our company's website, problem with any czech characters in URL was solved quickly. Administration of this component is user-friendly, support is fast.

Serious overhead to server

Kent (1).
Posted on 10 January 2011

I use Sh404sef with jreview, and has serious issue that it will add a lot of overhead to my server loading. I have enabled cache in sh404sef, and did some test.

with only one online user visiting the same page, here is my finding:

when sh404sef disabled: server load around 20-40%

when sh404sef enabled: server load up to 70-99%

enabled joomla debug mode to find out that when sh404sef enabled, quries run one a page will be doubled compared to sh404sef disabled.

Owner's reply: Hi

sh404sef does add some overhead to the Joomla SEF system, but usually around 25%. The number of queries added depends on many factors, including whether you activated the url disk cache and, most importantly, on how the 3rd-party extension support plugin is done.
sh404sef does not have any support for JReviews builtin, which means you are either using JReviews router.php file, or a sef url plugin provided by somebody else. With that kind of overhead, I would certainly review the way this plugin was written, and probably try to optimize it.

Rgds

SH404SEF really rocks

Duc Le (3).
Posted on 09 January 2011

I've been doing lots of research on SEF extensions. Tried them all and although none of them is perfect 10, I have to give sh404sef thumbs up for being the most complete and workable extension of this kind. It took me literally around 45 mins to get it working. I guess I'm also lucky because the rewrite_mode and .htaccess file is compatible with the hosting server. The documentation is a bit unorganized IMHO. However, I was able to find information I was looking for. Thanks for an awesome extension. By the way, I'm also a subscriber of JCalPro and have high respect for it as well.

Not bad, but lacking features

Peter Martin (3).
Posted on 31 December 2010

I came to sh404 after horrible experience with another extension.

I would say that it is fair, does what it says, however compared to other extensions lacks many features. I especially miss full control over the URLs (i.e. remove categories and similar). For example, I wanted to have a K2 urls with only the item alias, but avoiding the category was impossible.

To be honest, it is a good extension, but its plugin system and extension options are not sufficient enough.

Its interface is also not very user friendly

Owner's reply: Hi

Regarding lack of control, You may have miss the "Extensions configuration" dialog box, where you can fully control the urls: remove section, categories, add numerical id, use alias or title,etc?
As for plugins in general, we have take another stance from most other SEF component, in that instead of trying to supply and maintain dozens of plugins ourselves, which is next to impossible, we work with extension makers so that they directly provide sh404sef support. It is so with K2, for instance, and all settings to configure URL for K2 are to be found directly within K2, which makes sense in our opinion as the way K2 urls looks is really K2 stuff.

Rgds

Excellent Support

Simon Davis (5).
Posted on 17 December 2010

Had been using an old beta version from the time it was a free extension for a year or so.

Decided to upgrade and paid the money.

The product has undergone a lot of changes visually and under the hood.

Looks good and does the job very well indeed.

Had a major problem after upgrading, but the support forum where very quick in responding. Eventually they went into my site and problem solved it for me. Excellent service.

Well worth the money

So far, so good!

Brad (2).
Posted on 10 December 2010

I bought and installed the sh404SEF extension onto my website last night. I ran into a minor issue that was a simple mistake on my part. I contacted their support team concerning my issues. They replied within no time at all and helped me solve my problem.

Keep up the good work!

sh404SEF is the best SEO software available

Shaun Matthews (1).
Posted on 08 December 2010

We happily purchased the full bundle of products created by Anything Digital LLC.

We found the the clever mix of programs not only improved our search engine ranks dramatically, but added flexibility by means of forums, and internal company organisation with use of the online calendar.

We would gladly recommend the product to anybody wanting their Joomla website to be SEO enhanced.

With the full package, we can rely on the excellent back support issued by Victor and the team, and being able to access future developments which will assist us optimising our site.

This software is essential to ANY online business wanting to be found online.

All the best,

CanberraWeb

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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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