Comments on: The Forgotten Joomla SEF Component

By: Site Tool

Site Tool — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:00:37 +0000

Good post, but have you thought about The Forgotten Joomla SEF Component before?

By: SEO

SEO — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:53:52 +0000

I was just thinking about The Forgotten Joomla SEF Component and you’ve really helped out. Thanks!

By: Edwin Woodward

Edwin Woodward — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:55:46 +0000

very helpful article

By: Pathos

Pathos — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:42:57 +0000

@Zeljko

Contact a SEO Firm that can help you setup 301 redirects form the Old URls to the new Content pages.

If you replace your old content you could also use a component like sh404SEF or JoomSEF, register the 404 errors and redirect those URLs to the new content pages.

Anyway you look at it, it takes a lot of effort and carefull planning to change a websites Conten Management System.

I wish you lots of succes and hope it works out well for you.

By: Zeljko Cavar

Zeljko Cavar — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:06:24 +0000

I have 5 sites coded in .aspx (example: http://www.dubrovnikpalace.hr, http://www.hotel-kompas.hr, etc.), and we consider to use Yoomla, because we need to redesign 7 sites in short time period, so what I want to ask is what I need to do, not to louse a today ranking . What will eventually happen if we upload a new site to old directory (how will Google react, are we loose our ranking instantly).

By: shumisha

shumisha — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:30:07 +0000

Hi pathos,

I have to correct what I said yesterday, as I have read that SEF Advanced indeed redirects standard Joomla SEF URL to new, full SEF URL
Regards

By: Pathos

Pathos — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:54:24 +0000

@shumisha

thanks for the info, from opensef I know you can ste the page you want to be your 404 page, but the header is still 200 OK

For Joomlsef I thought you need another plugin to get a real 404.

There is also an 301 redirect extension from http://www.joomla-addons.org/ so maybe a combination of those will work as well.

But I will defintly true the sh404SEF extension to see how it handels my old urls…
Would be a nice step formward to getting the Duplicates out of Google.

The Webmaster tools didn’t work because of the 200 headers.

By: shumisha

shumisha — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:44:32 +0000

Hi Pathos,
Actually, most component will ‘accept’ non-sef in the way that this page will be served. But the user will be served the ‘old’ URL. Only Opensef does a 301 redirect to the new UR. From alledia review, I know that SEF Advance does not do that, and Joomsef I don’t know. As far as I know, sh404SEF is the only one doing also a 301 redirect for Joomla standard SEF to new URL.
The good thing about it is that you don’t have to worry anymore about the 404 issue, because Google will automatically remove your old URL from its index, when it sees a 301 redirect to another page.
Not withstanding, sh404SEF (and Joomsef, and I think OpenSEF ) do provide a real 404 (I mean page header) when a page is missing

By: Pathos

Pathos — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:35:09 +0000

@shumisha

Thank you for your comment, and I will try the sh404SEF component on a new site to test it.

Most of the other SEF components will pick up the No-SEF link and the Standard SWEF links as well.

Main problem is still getting the “old” links out of Google because of the lack of 404 error in Joomla.
Its giving a 200 OK header almost all of the time…

By: shumisha

shumisha — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:33:37 +0000

Hello Pathos,

Very good article and good to hear a bit about other solutions for sef. I develop sh404SEF, and I would like to second you in your comment about thinking twice to change URL if you already have content in search engine. However, I’d also like to mention that, being aware of this issue, I have tried to overcome it for the 2 most common situations : 1/ sites with no sef url 2/ sites with joomla standard SEF
In both cases, sh404SEF will recognize the old style URL and perform a 301 redirect to the new style sef url. That should ease the transition from joomla standard URL to new format