This component worked great and with no hiccups whatsoever.

Note only does this functionality help human navigation, but it can also improve your SEO efforts as words in links have more weight in the algorithms.

*Careful NOT to over do it though. Target select words which you are optimizing for.

This component works well and works with SerrBizSEF Basic and Complete. RD site map is a must have for SEO, as well as usability. :)

The only limitation I found is it only makes a site map of the default Joomla Content items. It would be nice if it read add ons like VirtueMart, Fireboard, etc.

M.Zittel

We installed this component which was a snap and very, very easy. We found the FIELDSET template worked the easiest with our design. We did run into some snags with permissions for changing the language file, but that was our server problem, NOT the component. Additionally, the asic commenting function and RSS comments works nicely with our seo component SerrBizSEF. The other functions (quote - report) default to the Joomla SEF, which we tested and found no duplicate content problems with. We'll be creating custom SEF rule soon. Thanks for the great component!

I've used OpenSef on a couple sites, and it's ok. Where it's most lacking is 2 areas.

1) Though it allows for custom SEF urls for any page, it get's confused when accessing content items through modules like latest news, etc. I think this is a core Joomla problem. Joomla creates different URLS for the same content item depending on how you navigate to it. It's very odd.

The issue with this is duplicate content. Google penalizes sites for "duplicate" content. So, after a page is published, you have to go back and manually fix the other URLS that are created. It's an extreme time waster.

2) In addition to custom urls, good SEO requires hand coded meta data. The only way we found to do this with OpenSEF was to use SEF Patch. It would be nice if these things all were merged into one, and the core issue of Joomla creating duplicate content was resolved.

In the mean time, we will continue to use OpenSEF and SEF patch combined as so far that's been the best solution we can find.