Comments on: How to use sh404SEF to Improve MojoBlog SEF and SEO

By: iklan baris gratis

iklan baris gratis — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:31:47 +0000

i use sef404 to,but this some bugs i found on my web

By: Manjusha

Manjusha — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:13:58 +0000

Thanks for the info, Hummer.

I’m using Joomla 1.5
ad 2. if a url is like:
xyz.com/component/option,com_xyz/…
I’m able to set a custom redirect so as to remove the words “component”, “option”

but, if the url is like:
xyz.com/component/option,com_xyz&arg=1/…
it fails. SInce there are arguments embedded in the url

ad 3. As far as my knowledge is concerned, I’m not using any language components.

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:51:49 +0000

@Manjusha: Which version of Joomla are you using?

ad 1. From the sh404SEF configuration the title alias should be used to generate the URL, if you change that title be hand to “This is an example” then you will get the %20% in your url.
To get rid of those %20% you need to rewrite it to “This-is-an-example”, that way you don’t have any blanks in the alias.
After you have done that, clear ol the SEF urls wiht the option in the sh404EF component and let it create the nes ones.
sh404SEF changes blanks into %20%.

ad 2. From the component part you need to get a sef extending file form the component developer, wich in some cases is not doable.
The other option you have is to use the custom url option in sh404sef with wich you can create any URL you want elleminating all the thins you don’t like.
That however can be a tremendus job if you use that component for a lot of things.

ad 3. Do you use a language component like JoomFisch, that might cause the lang.en extension to you URL. But it might also be created by the components you use.
I haven’t seen the indistars component anywhere else…:-)

By: Manjusha

Manjusha — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:34:08 +0000

Hi Hummer,

Thanks for the informative post.
I have a small database driven website built using Joomla. Using sh404sef for generating SEF urls. I have few questions. Could you please help me with them?

1. sh404sef inserts %20 for the space characters, which I want to get rid of. The page titles are generated from what I have in my database records. How do I change the URL encoding scheme without changing the underlying database contents?

2. xyz.com/component/option,com_xyz&arg=1/ – This is what a typical URL looks like. Is there a way I can eliminate the words “component”, “option” and the component name from the URL?

3. I set “show language in URL” to “No”, but I still see “lang,en” at the end of the URL. How do I remove this?

Thanks.

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:02:29 +0000

@SokJuice: Great info, Thanks!
I will surely check this one out later today and update the post if it works! I saw on the ML version site there was an alpha version of a plugin as well.

By: SokJuice

SokJuice — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:55:15 +0000

I really have to disagree with the above statement that “at the moment there is no way to do it automatically”. While I use the technique you’ve described for certain items that SH404SEF does not automatically handle correctly (and I use this technique OFTEN–it’s great!), there is a MUCH better way of handling mojoblog posts than doing it by hand like this. Check out my blog at the following link to see it in action:

CMNY Cakes blog

There is a rich discussion of the topic at the joomlify.com forum, which is of course at the developer’s website. Check out the following stickyied topic at:

http://www.joomlify.com/forums/index.php?topic=147.0

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:20:49 +0000

@Zeno, At the moment there is no way to do it automatically, because the information if not in the same database table as the Joomla Title, your really have to do it manually.

By: Zeno

Zeno — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:57:02 +0000

Do you know if there’s a way to auto-assign page titles, based on the blog entry’s title? Sh404SEF does this with content items in Joomla.

By: Hummerbie

Hummerbie — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:39:55 +0000

@Ryan: You can manually submit different sitemaps to Google, even for one domain! Using Google webmaster central is always a good thing to do.

You can read here: http://blog.hummerbie.com/sitemapxml-and-autodiscovery-by-google-ask-yahoo-and-live-via-robotstxt/ how to make it easier for SE’s to find you sitemap.xml file.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:10:24 +0000

Ryan, thanks I downloaded that plug in and installed it. Works great! Now does the wordpress sitemap submit automatically to SE’s? I cannot submit it manually to the Google webmaster central because I already submitted my joomla one?