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.

Great extension and support



Posted on 19 November 2013
Been using for years with great success on many sites and certainly seems to help google rankings. Just needed to raise my first support ticket in a long time and had a quick response which fixed my issue. Highly recommended.

excellent component



Posted on 15 November 2013
Very good component, it does great work.

Very good support!



Posted on 13 November 2013
This component is working on many websites of me since years. The support is great with fast response. Everything fine.

Amazing support



Posted on 13 November 2013
The best component for seo that you could want.



The best support that you can get up even to get into the backend of the site where there are problems!



Excellent: Five stars!

Solid support



Posted on 11 November 2013
I had a problem with three sites after updating Joomla, sh404SEF and several other components.



I posted information about the problem on the sh404SEF forum and had a response quickly. They continued to work with me until the issue was resolved.



Solid support from a professional team is always appreciated!

Well...not



Posted on 09 November 2013
I have used this component many times over the past 4 years and it always ends up the same: uninstall. With my latest usage I used the latest paid version and I kept getting endless loops when I created new content. I would be forced to purge all my URL's and be forced to recreate custom URL's, only to have to do it again the next time I added content. I also continued to find incompatibility issues with addons like jcomments and plugins such as Facebook Like. Once I disabled the component everything worked fine.



Very, very disappointing because this is clearly the most powerful SEF URL software available. Now I'm back to core Joomla SEF with article ID's in my URL's and not happy about it.

Flex Belt Reviews
I was seeking a component for SEO and i saw the great reviews about component. Yes, if you haven´t any problem....



The support doesn´t guide only like a french expression "passer la patate chaude".Always say if there is a module problem,website problem or something with problems.Nothing else.



Also once enabled the component, the site goes slow and the AJAX doesn´t work, for example with a filter.Simply doesn´t show the filtered items.



I´m disappointed with the component.

Saved Me from Insanity



Posted on 31 October 2013
This extension is awesome. I had been wrestling with another SEF extension (paid) for months, and was ready to pull my hair out. Bought this one, installed it, and worked great. I had a few issues with some duplicated SEF URLs for different pages, but figured it out easily, and fixed it. Definitely better than any other SEF extension I have tried.

Excellent Support



Posted on 29 October 2013
I've used this extension several times with great satisfaction. Today I had a troublesome issue on a site, I wrote to support and after a few hours I got an answer that solved the problem.

A support that works in this way is certainly a synonym of reliability.

I recommend it.
I recommend this extension to everyone!



It's very easy to configure and to use and the customer support is excellent and really pro-active.



Worth every penny!
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sh404SEF

Version:
4.24.7
Developer:
Yannick Gaultier
Last updated:
Jul 26 2023
9 months ago
Date added:
May 27 2007
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Paid download
Related extension :
4SEF
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Compatibility:
J3
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