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JoomSEF, by ARTIO - Joomla Extension Directory

Introduction

Site Management, SEF

SEO component to make your Joomla! URLs SEF (search engine friendly) and easily human understandable with metadata generation capabilities. Supports URL translations at multilingual sites using JoomFish/Falang. Online upgrades and extension instalation. Custom 404 Page Not Found, duplicate URLs management. Having SEF URLs means more comfort for users and better ranking with search engines.


Main features:
* generate SEF URLs
* advanced SEF URL management
* generate and manage metadata (component - based)
* can override default metadada generated by component or Joomla (title, meta tags)
* keywords management
* duplicates management
* 3rd level domain support
* support for other components through extension modules; each component extenstion has own configurable parameters
* multilinguality support (JoomFish) and URL localization
* UTF-8 URLs support
* URL caching
* URL source tracing to help allocate problematic code
* 301 Redirections management
* 404 Page Not Found customization
* online upgrades and extension installations

Support for many Joomla components: AdsManager, AlphaContent, Contacts XTD, Community Builder, Datso Gallery, DocMan, EZ Realty, Fireboard forum, Glossary, iJoomla Components, JE Comparison Charts, JEvents, Jomres, Joomlaboard, JoomFish, Joomla Tags, Jomres (Joomla Residents), Portfol, Seyret Video Component, SMF Bridge, SOBI2, Marketplace, Mosets Hot Property, Mosets Tree, ReMOSitory, RSGallery2, VirtueMart, Zoom Media Gallery. ...
at the moment, there is more than 100 extensions available directly from ARTIO - see http://www.artio.net/en/joomsef/artio-joomsef-extensions for complete list, plus many more from 3rd party developers.

Im disappointed...



Posted on 30 October 2010
I recently purchased this component and i was expected more from this company. When installing the component everything was fine until you activate! The configuration completely changed my store in the checkout process skipped the step 2 (shipping) to 4 (confirmation), that is the most important step (payment) is not showing on my e-store with Virtuemart. I lost a lot of money thanks to the installation of this component. You ask for support and no one answers my posts, to be a customer who paid for the extension have a bad customer support, I am really disappointed ...
Owner's reply: Hello,
it was confirmed - in collaboration with the user - that this problem was not caused by JoomSEF, neither by original VM extension, but due to a usage of 3rd party (unrecommended) VM extension for JoomSEF, not working properly. So it has in fact nothing to do with JoomSEF.

(ad support and response time - it was about 48hrs - during the weekend!)
This is a review of the paid for product.



IMO the area of SEF is one of as yet defined benefit, the selling point of having human readable URL’s is of debatable value. SEF is certainly no all curing elixir, there is much you can do to improve your rankings before turning to SEF alone.



As you’d expect from the opening paragraph I’ve found no discernable traffic increase from using Artio’s Joomsef for a period of approximately 8 months unless you count my 404 traffic which has literally gone through the roof!



Anyway the Good points on this product;



• Easy to install

• Easy to update (one click from the control panel for core product as well as any add-ons a particularly appreciated feature)

• Good Documentation (though describes only the function rather than how it works or the impact of using features)

• Regular updates



Bad points (the bit you’ve been waiting for)



• Doesn’t play nice with many components even when you purchase the plugin for that component

• Clunky navigation when trying to identify rogue URL’s

• 404’s increase exponentially (from only a handful pre-install to over 50,000 in 8 months)

• Poor Support (takes a long time to get a reply and then only with a holding type response, not good)

• Creates huge numbers of duplicates which wreaked havoc on my sited

• Doesn’t handle RSS feeds well

• Requires extensive maintenance (correcting URL’s, getting rid of duplicates etc.) and since I run a news site with material changing everyday this creates far too much overhead.



In a nutshell I’ve bitten a very large bullet and uninstalled Artio Joomsef, there were for me, far more downsides than upsides, particularly once you consider that many components now are adding their own SEF functionality, it’s difficult to see a bright future for components like this.
Owner's reply: Hello,

thanks for your extensive feedback. However, let me debate with you a bit.

JoomSEF is JUST a tool, not a magic wand.
Tool that will assist you with improving your site SEO. It will help you identify weakness of the site, components and structure design.
But it cannot solve all the problems by itself! You (or the component author) or the programmer who implemented your Joomla site needs to check for the reasons and remove them. JoomSEF will just point towards such problems.

If the site works fine with no duplicates, also the URLs and overal SEO ranking will be fine.But if there exists duplicate in the original non-SEO URL, there will be also duplicate in SEO URL. This also relates to the maintenance; if the site is well developed, no maintenance is needed.

I do not see relation between 404s and JoomSEF. If a URL does not exist, then it simply does not exist and generates 404 error. JoomSEF does not play any role in that.
Similar issue is with RSS.
A review should tell you how good the component is and I would rate this as an excellent component if it were not for the back links. However because the back links are there I will just spend the time in saying that if you install Artio JoomSEF every page on your site will have the meta information changed, spammy links inserted and an "SEO by Artio" at the foot of every page. The commercial version removes these but do not install the free version unless you want to advertise someone else's site on yours!

If this spam was gone I would rate this extension as EXCELLENT. The Artio devs are good chaps - I don't know why they do this.
I pretty much had given up on URL redirects after failing to get two other SEF programs working...



JoomSEF was easy to use, it works, its NON DESTRUCTIVE and well, well worth the $ for the paid version!!



I'm once again happy with URL redirects...like I jokingly said on twitter the other day, I am having a Joomla-plugin crush with this app...its really changed the way I do business with SEOing my websites with URL redirects...I haven't had one other extension mess it up, and I have LOTS OF WEBSITES with LOTS OF EXTENSIONS and NOT ONE messes up JoomSEF. Other SEF apps cannot say that...(not calling out names, lol).

Not so great



Posted on 01 September 2010
I really didn't like it. Too many little quirks to list, but I saw no real significant advantage using it. It did mess up some of my Community Builder profile links. After I installed, I watched for 2 weeks, and my error 404 hits tripled. With it on, it also interfered with the "Answers" component... made it throw 404's every time.



Too many downsides which outweighed the benefits (what little I actually saw).

In all honesty, it does little more than Joomla's standard sef.

Good extension



Posted on 12 August 2010
Very good extension that replaces the default Joomla! URLs with SEF URLS. It works very well. Efficient support.

Poor support



Posted on 08 August 2010
I paid for this extension recently. They recently updated to 3.7.1 and this version is not working properly. Site totally crashed. No urls are working fine after the upgrade. Now i switched to other SEF extension.

Very impressive



Posted on 07 August 2010
So after agonizing last night over JoomSEF vs sh404SEF I decided to try JoomSEF for the project I'm working on. I went to Artio's site to download try the "Free" version which wasn't available anywhere (shame on all of you who do this, if it's not there then don't offer it. But I digress...)



I finally acquiesced and decided to risk the $45US since I needed the Virtue extension as well. I'm sure glad I did because this is one of the most complete, professional, well though out Joomla extensions that I've ever used. The administrative tools are well thought out and actually useful for determining how a given URL is being formed. There are configuration parameters for tweaking URL generation just about any way you want it. It even did a reasonable job for components that aren't supported by dedicated extensions.



Two thumbs up and well worth the price. Nice job guys.

Excellent!!!



Posted on 05 August 2010
For me there are no more words needed! JoomSEF is a really useful tool. Beside 5 stars reviews here it is to add the fantastic possibilty to create nice urls for hybrid submenus (automatic). The homemade joomla core seems not to be able to. A complete system for seo is offering. And I am very thankful for that!
It is a great Extension and I am using it very often but I got a little dissapointed since upgrading to version 3.7.



I have been using version 3.6.5 before upgrading and i still had the ability to change my .htaccess and sitemap via backend but now it says that I have to get the paid version to use these feature.



Give us a little heads up before making such drastic changes. Your site doesn't even mention this... in the news section nor the changelog.



I will be downgrading for now...
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JoomSEF

Version:
4.7.5
Developer:
ARTIO
Last updated:
May 24 2018
6 years ago
Date added:
Aug 28 2006
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
c p
Compatibility:
J3
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