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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Still the best

Renzo Carlucci (6).
Posted on 21 May 2013

And for quality and for quick and capable assistance. Used for many years, till today a must.

good but

STEVE MC FALLEN (37).
Posted on 14 May 2013

good extension for seo, but your website will be slow too and hard to find plugins for several components as cobalt cck

Owner's reply: Hi

It is possible that depending on the extensions involved and the site design, a performance penalty may occur. If it goes beyond 10-20%, then you got a setup issue, and you should contact support to get you sorted out.
When using the built in cache system, especially the memcache backend, you can actually expect performance increase, as sh40SEF does not need to rebuild the full SEF url each time, as Joomla does, but can get it from cache almost instantly.
Note that the sh404SEF cache can also optionnally be enabled to provide caching for ALL Joomla database operation (ie: non-sh404SEF related), thus further speeding up the site.
Rgds

1 start in joomla 3

tiwi (10).
Posted on 14 May 2013

I've been using this extension for about 4 years in 1.5. I would rate it with 5 stars in this joomla version because sef was missing. What made this sef extension popular is now mostly standard in Joomla 3. Ok the sh404sef still offers a few extra features but it is questionable if it improves your ranking and if you need or want to have a third party paid extension take over the standard Joomla sef as it is already built in Joomla 3. There are more simple ways to improve your sef.

I did 2 clean new installations and gave the sh404sef a try in Joomla 3. In both cases it caused errors and conflicts with other updated (paid) extension with sh404sef enabled. The support for the issues I had was that it could be this could be that, if you like to know we have to copy your website on our servers and please use our premium support at 75 usd hour.

For me having built websites with other sef extensions and the sh404sef, currently no more paid sef components for me, too much hassle, useless costs and an increase for errors conflicts with other extensions. Then also the need for the periodical updates of these sef component for which you need a (paid) current membership.... and for what, most sef functions are now standard in Joomla 3, and a paid extension really does NOT improve your ranking.

Owner's reply: Hi

First, thanks for using sh404SEF for several years!

As someone who's very familiar with Joomla SEF, I have to say I'm a bit surprised by your statement that basically one doesn't need sh404SEF because SEF is good enough in Joomla 3 compared to what it was in Joomla 1.5

The reason I'm surprised is because there was no change in Joomla 3 SEF system, and there was also no change in Joomla 1.6,1.7 and 2.5 SEF system.

The SEF system was created in Joomla 1.5, and was never modified. It's still based today on menu items, generate duplicate content and create lengthy urls as soon as an item is not directly linked for a menu. Please just install sh404SEF on a standard Joomla 3, and go check the "duplicates" column to see for yourself.

In case of conflicts, we need to figure out which extension is causing the real issue - it's not because the issue appears when sh404SEF is switched on that it is causing the problem!!!. On extreme cases, this may require custom work.
We can always discuss the pros and cons of paid vs free extensions. Many people (see other reviews) appreciate having someone to rely upon when needed but most importantly like that extensions are still there and actively developed and updated to changing environment: search engines, Analytics, Facebook or twitter API changes for instance - by the way, Facebook has an API breaking change on July 10. sh404SEF will be updated accordingly, don't worry.

Rgds

Performant component and very good support

Paul (2).
Posted on 14 May 2013

Is many time that I use this wonderful component. For a recent problem now I know that have a very quickly and good support. I suggest it.

Wanna Finish Your Site?

JC Renish Mithani (4).
Posted on 13 May 2013

Really Very Good Extension for seo, but it will finish your website, your ranking and everything, it will slow down your website in a second.

I have used almost more then 1000 extensions of joomla. bt this is the worst of worst extension.

Owner's reply: Hi

No, sh404SEF will not destroy your site, your ranking and all the rest, including slowing down your site.

Extreme slowness is usually linked to misconfiguration, and we'd be very happy to fix that if you were to contact support.

Rgds

Great tool

Dan Otherseed (12).
Posted on 11 May 2013

sh404sef is an extension with a long history, and I've used it for a long time. It's not extremely easy to get up to speed with it, but when you do it becomes an essential tool for you site. Simply great!

Great Service

madmaxy (7).
Posted on 03 May 2013

Hi guys. Try this great extension. Ive used it for J2.5 and its works fine. I had for my site a specific problem and they handled it out really fast. Thx to Jimie for technical support and Ron for solve the rest.

Nothing to loose. Install it fastly- ready !

Quick and thorough

Mart v Berkum (2).
Posted on 25 April 2013

Had big time problems with live client mukti lingual site after installing sh404sef component the menu's disappeared in some of the languages and menu links were not clickable anymore... support was very quick in solving the issue!

good extension with great support

tataye (12).
Posted on 10 April 2013

I was not a regular user of this extension until one of my clients made me know it. and I must admit that I was pleasantly surprised by the ability of sh404, I had some concerns of beginners, and support intervened in the day.

I couldn't ask for better.

I recommand it.

sh404SEF excellent support

Pieter Wenk (1).
Posted on 09 April 2013

Hello

Roughly a month ago I activated sh404SEF with .htaccess. It's an excellent component and does exactly what it has to do.

Activating SEF does of course rewrite all the urls and this can create problems.

Thanks to jimie's great help, who made a visit on my site, these problems could be solved.

Perhaps a suggestion which might allow sh404SEF to be event better as it already:

To take care also of the various components, plugins which are not SEF compatible.

Of course sh404SEF will not be able to rewrite these urls...but lets say offering options being able using these non sef urls perhamps in META etc.

Just a suggestion which might help to enhance the offer.

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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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