sh404SEF

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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.

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K2 incompatible Buyer be ware

Nadine (4).
Posted on 22 June 2012

Maybe writing a public review might make the developers more accountable. Also see previous reviewers notes.

When I purchased this component, I thought it was going to be great and releave some issues I was having with sefs on my site. However, what I found was it presented a lot problems than what i originally had. One of the biggest issues is that it doesn't work properly with blogging tools such as K2. This component brakes the RSS feed all it does is reload the page or you get errors.

Don't try to contact support for help as you will get the following:

"Seams that there`s a plugin which is conflicting with sh404sef, you have go to Extensions > Plugin manager > disable your website plugins one by one ( ATTENTION!: Do NOT disable sh404sef plugins ) and see which of them is conflicting with sh404sef."

They do not hold themselves accountable for their product even though you are paying for it, rather, they blame everyone else. That is odd since everything works fine when you turn off sh404sef. wow I guess buyer be ware is you use K2 don't buy this.

Owner's reply: Hi drewid1

I'm sorry to hear you're having so much trouble with sh404SEF and support, but I believe I have some answers for you.

When we said "It seems there's a plugin conflicting...", the correct phrase is not "It seems". It is: "We know".
This issue is a known issue, but not a sh404SEF one. Andrew Eddie, one of the main developer of Joomla! has described it here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/joomla-dev-general/S0GYKhLm92A

We tried to explain that to you, but we were not clear enough and the message didn't get through.

Yes, that post by Andrew does not mention K2. That's because the issue can happen with ANY extension. It only requires one or more poorly written system plugin installed on your site. And Yes, the issue will ONLY happen if you use sh404SEF, because sh404SEF creates fully SEF urls for your RSS feeds, and this problem won't happen if your rss feeds urls are not SEF, as is the case with Joomla! SEF for instance.
And yes, we have a setting to solve this, simply leaving the RSS feeds urls non-sef. USe this setting if you accept non-sef urls for your feeds, and don't want or can't get rid of the faulty system plugin.

K2 is extremely well supported in sh404SEF. So much that K2 plugin is actually not provided by the sh404SEF team, but directly by the K2 development team itself, with all sh404SEF params directly set in the K2 control panel.

Let's just say that sh404SEF likes K2 very much, to the point that our own web site is a K2 web site. And it has fully working rss feeds. I don't think I can link to our own web site here, but I'll let you check that by yourself.

Also, you have to recognize at least that support is reacting quickly. You posted for the first time on our forum less than 24 hours ago. And now we already have a review published from you here on JED! Maybe spending a couple more hours would have solved the problem!

Rgds

not fully compatible

Ka Lodger (1).
Posted on 21 June 2012

We have encountered issues with sh404 in combination with popular extensions like joomfish, k2 and t3 template framework. sadly, support was not really helpful and blamed it on those extensions, which "i should contact" along with not really helpful answers e.g. not providing links to forum posts but mentioning them in the text. installing a different SEF component (Artio JoomSef) worked out of the box, so i have to assume, it is actually an issue of sh404, making this a very bad support.

Owner's reply: Hi kaeau

I have checked with the support team, to be sure we were talking about the same problem. The particular issue you are facing is an identified issue in the language switcher module. We already have contacted Joomlart (maker of the T3 template framework) and provided them with the fix. We solely advised you to contact Joomlart to help in speeding up the process of a new fixed release from them.

Yes. sh404SEF may have different behavior from Joomla! SEF or Artio, especially when it comes to multilingual sites. That's because I'm focused on SEO and for instance, sh404SEF will not accept things such as the same URL sometimes returning one language and sometimes another one.
Other extensions may be more tolerant to bugs in some modules, but that comes at the expense of SEO results and that I won't accept.
In other words, your assumption that the problem is coming from sh404SEF because it "worked" with other extensions is not really correct. What happens is that it doesn't work with other extensions either. Simply you don't see the negative consequence now. I have always found that fixing the real, original probem is the way to go.

Rgds

Excellent Component

Mutaz (3).
Posted on 10 June 2012

This component is very important for any joomla site, I can't imagine how I was developing my site without it. it is for sure your google's search engine ranking would be affected temporarily after changing all your URLs, but at the same time it is a must.

Support is very good and quick. they are ready to answer any quistion. I found some difficulties while using Arabic in my site, but they guide me quickly and now it is perfect.

I am using xmap for generating my site map, I found it much better than jcrawler which is generating a lot of errors with this extension.

It has nice feature where you can change the title and meta tags and keywords for each page of your site very easly in one location.

Finally, I highly recommend this extension for all joomla site especially if you are suffering from duplicate contents in joomla.

Excellent!

Jim Hill (12).
Posted on 05 June 2012

This extension is as good as it gets, and as far as I am concerned mandatory for any Joomla site, be it 1.5 or 1.7+. I have used this successfully for one year now and won't look back. I had some minor troubles and their support team answered me quickly. Most of the time it wasn't their extension causing the problem. It's very well thought out and will had a major impact upon my search engine standing in Google when configured properly. One of the best features I have found is the abiltiy to create unique meta description tags to override the Joomla core created values. This is very important when using the Glossary extension as Google we see repated meta descriptions and penalize your SEO score. Buy and be done with it!

Not easy... but very good

carlo arioli (3).
Posted on 01 June 2012

It is a very effective plugin: all it does is needed and should be done actually bu joomla itself. I confess it is not an easy plugin to set-up and delicate with conflicts on others. I had a couple of issues I solved with the support: even this was not easy in term of communication style, but still effective and when I gave credentials they solved all for me. Overall, once you get used it is terrific and let you customize all the links. Hard, but don't regret a single bit of what I paid.

Smooth

Riccardo Zorn (7).
Posted on 30 May 2012

I've used most SEF extensions out there, and admittedly doing SEF on joomla is not so easy.

sh404 does an excellent job, with a very easy interface. Of course, everyone wants urls their way, and it's fairly easy to configure it properly.

Url management is really nice and easy to use. Plus some extra features like suggestions on 404 and social buttons.

On top of this, support is effective and fast even on the fourth enquiry. Couldn't ask for more.

Great product and fantastic support

Poldi (2).
Posted on 30 May 2012

Installed and configured out of the box and works as advertised.

Great stuff.

Sh404sef Support and Product

Sue Conradie (1).
Posted on 29 May 2012

I installed the product with no problem what so ever, but had a problem on 404 errors, my fault if I read and understood what had to be done with the .htaccess file, removing .txt I give the support and product 10 out of 10, response was great.

I have to add that I live in Thailand and have to pay for this service in baht and it is still very cheap in comparison with other products.

Great component

Robert Rosario (7).
Posted on 25 May 2012

Installed and it's working wonders. You can't have K2 without it. (my opinion)

Service and forum are top notch and they get back to you fast.

4 years of using SH404 and I'm one happy customer.

Tim Daniels (1).
Posted on 11 May 2012

I have used SH404 for my J1.5 site and now, my J2.5 site. I have had a subscription for about 4 years now. I have found it easy to set up and highly valuable for giving me the URLs I wanted and eliminating multiple / duplicate URLS. I have used it to customise my title tags on some pages.

I haven't had any problems. When I have had 'finger trouble' with the set up, I've received very prompt support in the forum.

Software updates have been reliable and I have confidence in the developpers.

I am now looking at using the latest Social features of this plugin so that I can set the image I want Facebook to pick up for my site and have Tweet / Like and Plus One buttons where I insert the 'Social' Tag onto my pages (there is also an option to have it before or after articles).

I feel the price of this extension is just about right. If you are looking to make your Joomla site Search Engine Friendly, I would highly recommend SH404SEF.

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sh404SEF

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

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