hi, I have come to know that Joomla isn't much good with its default URLs & hence need to edit in htaccess.txt? Have I come across some wrong info? How to make joomla url's SEO friendly?
Click on Site -> Global Configuration, on the right there is a panel "SEO Settings". Make the 3 options Yes and rename the .htaccess file to htaccess.txt Your url will be like this:
I enabled all 3 options but its showing me "No Object Found" but the url has changed as you hav shown above.
And you can also put a different extensions like: sh404 but it isnt free, but also joomla upgrade with joomla seo patch try to google it and that patch is free. I read a book Joomla SEO and it was very helpful.
Although not free, I recommand you to install the extension SH404 Sef. I tested a lot of SEO extensions for Joomla and I came back to SH404 Sef because none other is working as well. Easy to use for beginners and a lot of advanced and usefull options for intermediates. The price is 35$ per year but if you have more than one Joomla websites it's quite not expensive.
Yes its great extension, but sometimes I have problem with sh404 if when I use it with joomfish. It make a mess in the main menu...
I just turned on SEO friendly links in the general control panel. Now my links are filled with keywords. I think it will really help with the SERPs.
To have clean and SEO friendly URL's for the Joomla website , then needs to use .htacces file. This means that your URLs are reading like normal pages that contain your keywords. This will give them a better Search Engine index as well as easier for you visitors to remember. The basic purpose of the .htaccess file here is to Rewrite the cryptic URL’s from a DCMS to more readable URL’s. For Apache to be able to do that, it needs to know some things about the URL Joomla produces and how they should be handled. These information is stored in the .htaccess file. This needs to rename the file htaccess.txt to .htaccess via your FTP Program.
1. Make the 3 options Yes for SEO setting 2. Rename your htaccess.txt to .htaccess with FTP. You can get it free in http://filezilla-project.org/
When using sh404 with joomfish, I recommend that you switch the "use pageId" on instead of "off" in the panel configuration of sh404. It will help to avoid conflicts between the menu items. You can also modify the options of the "system - jfrooter" plugin (installed by joomfish, in your plugin list). Just try and test the different settings until everythings work. Hope it helps.
go to global configurations and then to SEO settings, make the 3 options ok and you need to rename htaccess.txt file to .htaccess