sh404SEF

297 reviews

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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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delivers what it promises

Louis (1).
Posted on 28 October 2015

Functionality

It does exactly what I want, after a short study.

Ease of use

I think it is made as easy as posible but some knowledge is needed.

Support

Support is very good. Within 3 minutes I had a response on my ticket!!!

Value for money

Yes no doubt in my mind

The main Joomla component for SEO

Andrea (4).
Posted on 18 October 2015

Functionality

Sh404sef manages many SEO functions: meta tags management, duplicate URLs, web site security, web pages suffix and more.

Ease of use

Sh404sef gives you many important features about SEO that you can know with tutorials and a video that can be found on the web site.

Support

Support sh404sef is working very well. The developer is always very available to help you if it is necessary.

Documentation

The documentation is comprehensive.

Value for money

This componte has an excellent ratio between quality and price.

I used this to: I installed Sh404sef component in all my web sites. I use it from some years.

Good extension for SEO

Tavernier (3).
Posted on 30 July 2015

Functionality

very useful to take control of URLs and manage some security features. We must learn, but then you can do much of anything

Ease of use

Easy to use but it must be set up and understand with the use of other extensions

Support

Good support. I doubted after redemption with weeblr

Documentation

Complete and clear documentation.

Value for money

Good value

I used this to: Manage seo for all my websites

Owner's reply: Hi

Thanks for your kind review, it's appreciated and helps in continuing the work we do with dedication.

I'm sorry you doubted of support quality after Weeblr took back control of the software: I'm not sure everyone is aware that Weeblr is the original and only developer of sh404SEF since 2006 (AD was never involved in development) and so one reason of leaving AD was indeed to restore support quality at its orginal level!

Thanks and regards

Excellent control over SEO URLs and most importantly, better support now!

Matt Schwartz (26).
Posted on 15 July 2015

Functionality

Complex software, but gives you flexible and powerful control over your URLs

Ease of use

Not the easiest if you need a specific setup, but out of the box works with one click with almost all software, even 3rd party components

Support

Now that they moved away from AnythingDigital and handle support internally, excellent, friendlier, and work harder to resolve issues

Documentation

Great documentation across the board

Value for money

Price is on point for all you get

I used this to: 90% of all Joomla sites I builder per year for my clients on marketing and e-commerce

Certainly effective for a large site

Franck Sinimalé (7).
Posted on 16 June 2015

Functionality

Much more fonctionnalities than I need for my 5 pages web site.

Ease of use

Since I'm not SEO competent, I just can say that SEO isn't as magic as I would like, nevertheless I managed to get some results without rtfm

Value for money

Not expensive at all for the big job it does. As in my case the extension does not match my needs I had been refunded just on demand. Cool.

Great Support, Great Component

Cindy Moore (10).
Posted on 12 June 2015

Functionality

The component functions as promised but I needed some help with the configuration.

Ease of use

If you like the settings as they are its good to go out of the box. Can be a bit to learn, though if you need to make modifications.

Support

Top Notch! They are quick and courteous. Quite helpful!

Value for money

Very good value, very generous of the developer not to tie it to each domain.

I used this to: Removing the category portion of the url so that we could have direct links to JReviews listings detail pages for use in marketing materials and landing pages.

Still the best

seoritchie (3).
Posted on 13 May 2015

Functionality

This extension is the best for Joomla urls, avoid number id in the Joomla contents

Ease of use

Once you install and activate the rewriting the management is automated. To tweak all the power of the extension you need some efforts

Documentation

Covers many aspects

Value for money

Better urls mean better indexing and also more visibility, so i think well spent money

I used this to: Several websites that i manage for clients

Always good, now even better

Jesse Williams (11).
Posted on 30 April 2015

Functionality

Component makes quick work of most all SEO related pieces missing out of the Joomla core. Avoids duplicate content on urls.

Ease of use

Works out the box.... just turn it on and you already have and SEO site

Support

With the move back into the original developers control, the support is once again top notch, and this is the reason I am writing this revie

Value for money

I use this on many sites, and the license covers this, very generous on the part of the developer

I used this to: Used on all my sites for years, since Joomlla 1.0 right through to joomla 3.4.1 today. It takes care of all the basic SEO so easily and quickly. It plays well with multilingual sites. I must have for any site that wants to rank well on searches

เป็นเครื่องมือที่ Joomla ขาดไม่ได้เลยจริงๆ

Phichet (1).
Posted on 15 April 2015

Functionality

ฟังก์ชันการทำงาน
เยี่ยมมาก มันจะดีมากถ้าหากมี ตัวอย่างในการใช้งานฟังก์ชั่นต่างๆ ให้เป็นไกด์สักหน่อย

Ease of use

ความสะดวกในการใช้
ใช้สะดวกระดับหนึ่ง แต่เนื่องจากฟังก์ชั่นการทำงานเยอะ จึงต้องค่อยๆศึกษา

Support

การช่วยเหลือ
ดีเยี่ยม ได้มาตรฐาน สากล

Documentation

เอกสาร ฉันว่าควรจะมีตัวอย่างในนั้นด้วย ก็จะดีเยี่ยม และบอกให้ละเอียดเกี่ยวกับการใช้งาน เช่น สเต็ป บาย สเต็ป มันจะได้ช่วยสำหรับมือใหม่ได้ดี

Value for money

ความคุ้มค่า ผมว่าคุ้มมากจริงๆ

I used this to: ????????????????????????? ?????????????????????? SEO ??????????????????????

Funziona alla perfezione e fa il suo dovere

Gregorio Nuti (4).
Posted on 10 April 2015

Functionality

Riscrive meravigliosamente le URL del sito, creandone delle nuove, che fanno invidia anche ai siti non creati tramite CMS. Perfetto.

Ease of use

È semplice da utilizzare, richiede soltanto un po' di dimestichezza per essere utilizzata velocemente. La si ottiene con un po' di pratica.

Support

Il supporto è velocissimo e mi ha aiutato a risolvere un problema che apparentemente era sorto con l'utilizzo di sh404SEF e DocMan.

Documentation

La documentazione è completa e consultabile.

Value for money

Posso concludere dicendo che per me sono stati soldi spesi bene. È un componente che non costa molto ma che vale ogni centesimo di Euro.

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