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.

Best support and working



Posted on 15 October 2010
I'm working since 3 Years with sh404sef and i find it an excellent extension. The supportforum works very fine.



I recently upgraded to the 2.x.x. version and i appreciate very much the new analytics feature.



I find it a very complete extension and it's also well compatible with most important other extensions.



Every cent spent for it was spent good.



thank you and continue like



regards



Kubwit
I recently had the need to address an issue with Joomla SEF URLs that would change on an irregular basis depending on where the content was accessed from after a cache reset.



I also wanted to use a Joomla component that would allow more control over the SEF URL configuration.



With the above in mind, I brought and installed sh404SEF. It's been extremely easy to work with, and is a well polished product (still learning some basics, though the documentation has been great thus far).



What issues I've run into have been promptly addressed (and almost all resolved) by the community behind sh404SEF.
I've been using this extension for a few years now on some sites and have been very happy paying the very reasonable annual license fee (unlimited domains) because there is now very active support and development since the move to Anything Digital.



Today I had a couple of problems (turned out not with sh404SEF), which they helped resolve very quickly - thanks to jimie and shushima.



The extension also includes some worthwhile security features and for some extensions e.g. Virtuemart, is essential because Joomla!s SEF doesn't handle them well.



I've had a brief look at the new Google Analytics functionality, which could be very useful but I won't be using it until they have a secure solution for storing and reading the GA authentication. They do say that you should just create a new GA account for each domain if you don't want your username/password compromised but this is a work-around that requires a change to our business processes.



Very good extension.
Owner's reply: hi

thanks for your kind review. A note on the Analytics password. I'm sorry if our wording makes you think there is any security flaw there. There is not, and a change in storage method is not researched nor needed. Your credentials are stored in a file on your server, just like Joomla stores your mysql password or your smtp email password. This is very secure and does not cause any issue.
Our advice was more a no-nonsense kind of remark, whereby we advice to not use the same password on each and every email account or website credentials you use, so as to avoid having all your accounts compromised if only one of them is uncovered

Best regards
I've tested this extension on one test site of mine, the default configuration worked at least on what i've seen witouht anything abnormal.

Great documentation to read on the first time use.

Realy a must have for joomla beginers (like me)developers and designers.

Has lot's of options (wich i have to explore)

Keep up the good work!

Fast support



Posted on 29 September 2010
Must say the new SH404sef has lot's of (new) features, more complex to handle also, today they fixed it very quickly almost like live support. Excellent job Jimie!

Willem-Hein
sh404SEF is a must have for any website. I have created over 20 Joomla websites and use sh404 on every single one.



The product itself is paid, but it has excellent support helping me solve issues within an hour. It is continuously developed and supported by a great time. Developed releases don't just include bug fixes but contain new features such as the Google Analytics feature.



Thank you Anything Digital for a great product.
In the past this product did virtually everything I needed it to do, but the move to anything-digital has been a big plus. They continue to innovate, the current version not only has new features, but is more stable and is easier to configure and use. Highly recommended!
I have 3 things to say for sh404sef,

1. I have been using this for years now for all of my clients and I personally use it for my company website as well. Works great!

2. The new version 2 has got some terrific additions, like Analytics.

3. The Forum Support is excellent and works24x7.



Overall, a very very happy customer!

Awesome!



Posted on 07 September 2010
Normally I dont write a lot of review, but I must say, "Awesome!" After trying many of the SEF type exentsions I'm very happy with this one.



Very easy to use (if you read the documentations) does what is says.

Awesome



Posted on 17 July 2010
If you want to build a good search engine friendly website using Joomla, then sh404sef is a must. The new version of sh404sef is awesome and its very user friendly unlike older versions. The new version has a great feature called page id.



Great work Yannick.

Thanks a lot.
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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:
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