Almost perfect I think, and the best of all kind of SEF component even SELL OUT components...

Others said, but that's it :
- download
- read the doc (easy doc)
- and look at these nice url's

Highly recommended !

First I take OpenSEF and ArtioSEF and have many problems with double URLs, configuring nice SEFs for other Compontents and big Sites getting very slow with OpenSEF.
I change to sh404 and the sun is shining again :-)
No double URLs, generate excellent SEFs for Components like VirtueMart, Cache-Funktion on board.

THANKS FOR EXCELLENT WORK! Donation is coming soon.

Wow ... I actually got this system to work with Gallery 2. But what I did was upload sef_ext.php and then turn off SEF for that component. I know, it sounds like sh404SEF isn't really doing anything at that point -- it's allowing G2 to do its own SEF without messing it up -- something JoomSEF didn't allow. And no advertising for tire stores in third world countries in my Meta tags, either. Woohoo! Thanks, sh404SEF.

I tried them all,sh404SEF works like a dream been running for 2 months.What I like is that the developer keeps updating and improving.Thank you....... for a first class extension and the most important one to get high search ratings!There is no advertising in the extension which makes this truly open to the community,404 handling is excellent.I highly recommend this SEF-URL extension.

I just uploaded the component, and didn't have to change my .htaccess file or even have to log into my backend. WOW...It actually works. thanks

At Last!! Finally found a component that allows me to have named urls instead of the other joomla default, which is rubbish.

Easy to install and set up although I am still having a problem getting to grips with the shCustomtags, I just can't seem to understand how it works? Can any one help??

But I have to say Im very pleased with this component, well done to you shumisha.

Owner's reply:
Hi DazzleIT,

I suggest you post on the support forum (link is in control panel in sh404SEF backend) for assistance in putting shCustomTags to work!

I can't be absolutly sure, but sh404sef seems to have crashed my Joomla powered site. After my newly set up website had been running perfectly for two weeks Joomla suddenly started to show only blank pages every so often. I found out that clearing the cached sef-URLs solved this problem instantly. But after some while Joomla would show only blank pages yet again. So I kept clearing the URL-cache over and over again to keep my site running. As I couldn't solve this problem I had to uninstall sh404sef. That didn't help much either. Still Joomla produces blank pages very often. But I found out that this now must have to do with Joomla's caching: Joomla seems to produce new pages only into the cache but not onto the screen whereas reloading shows the page. Turnig the Cache off ends up with blank screens only.
I will give sh404sef another try as soon as it is labeled 'stable'. As yet I don't want to rate this component.

Owner's reply:
Hi Ardandil,



If you are still experiencing these problems with sh404SEF uninstalled, it is fair to assume they are unrelated I think. Did you check your error log file for errors ?

WOW! Tried opensef and artiosef before, got lot of problems which could be solved with knowledge and a lot time. Installed sh404sed out of the box and went 15 pages up on main keyword with the next google update.

Note; The custom tags module doesn't work properly in combination with PageCache as far as I know. For now I go for findability in stead of speed.

Everything I read about Joomla and SEF required knowing the .htaccess file, core hacks (scary), ...

I had some time and thought I'd try out sh404SEF. A couple of clicks later - it worked! There are so many options - maybe I'll get to those later. Now lets see if it really matters on the search engines...

BEWARE - some components may not work. For example, after about an hour poking and forum-ing. I found that JCE (my editor of choice) must be changed to work with sh404SEF and Submit Content (or MyContent). The URL setting in the JCE config needed to be changed to absolute URL not relative URLs. That is an example of some tweaking that may be required.

I recommend sh404SEF.

Found I only had to activate it two places and it works to my satisfaction. Took 1 minute to get going. Placed it on 3 web sites in 5 min,

Hello,

i juste wanted to said thank you for this wonderfull plugin, i tried many times to make sef work in joomla but found it difficult to manage.

Not any more !!

Install, configure and i just works..

Beautifull work

This is a excellent extension. I installed it without any problems on two of my sites. There was a problem with the third which turned out to be the host! No names!

I also have to say the support from Yannick deserves my utmost respect for professionalism and time taken to solve an issue I had not due to his extension.

Will be keeping an eye on more of his products.

FANTASTIC

Cannot work with virtuemart products that are listed in multiple categories!

Just did my first 2 virtuemart websites and wanted a SEF extension. sh404 worked well for 1 site, but not for the second.

On the second site, products are often in multiple categories. sh404SEF pulls the new URL from the database, but links to the first loaded category.

Example:

Product: Nokia cell phone
Categories: Cell Phones, Electronics

If the Electronics page is visited first, the URL for the product, no matter where it is linked from, will load the product page showing the category of Electronics. But, because 'Cell Phones' is the first category listed in the database, the URL will be

/cell-phones/nokia-cell-phone

and will load the page

Electronics > Nokia Cell Phone

On my product detail pages, I have the category image display, and it's not good to view a category ( "Cell Phones" in this example), then click on a "Cell Phones" product and be taken to a page in a different category ("Electronics") in this example.

So.. It still works, but now I have to create duplicate, triplicate or more listings for every product that is listed in multiple categories.

Owner's reply:
Hi,

WHat you are doing is generating duplicate content, and sh404SEF tries to avoid it with its default settings. Have you tried simply activating insertion of category id in URL ? THat should make your URL unique, so you'll have the category you like (but two or more URL leading to the same content)

Regards

if I am here to write this review its because I know it works and is the best had some problems with .htaccess file was giving 404 error hey dont worry I changed to without using .htaccess files, and it generated great urls and the keywords that I gave it. marvellous