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The Guy’s at the OpenSEF web site have developed and released a beta version of the free open source SEF component for Joomla which basically enables you to incorporate search engine friendly URL’s within your Joomla Open Source CMS. Currently the inbuilt Joomla SEF functionality by default creates Joomla URL’s like this http://www.mysite.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ and from an SEO point of view this is not to good but Joomla OpenSEF component can convert, display your URL’s to look like this. http://www.yoursite.com/welcome.html or
http://www.yoursite.com/business/articles/newideas.html.
The OpenSEF component for Joomla is extermly flexable and includes a wide range of administration features to control the output of your URL’s which include the following.
Rewriting Features: Ability to manually map arbitary, user-chosen URLs to Joomla's content and components.
Rewrites all URLs inside content items for seamless site navigation using "pretty URLs".
Automatic redirection when missing trailing slashes to strengthen the illusion of a real directory structure (/news gets redirected to /news/).
Module and component URLs are rewritten if the module/component supports the standard Joomla 1.0.x SEF application programming interface.
Unlimited number of alias URL mappings.
Output all site URLs as either relative or absolute depending on a configuration parameter. (Joomla by default outputs all URLs as absolute only.)
Ability to send an HTTP browser redirection instead of rewriting the URL internally in Joomla; just use absolute URLs (containing http://) instead of relative addresses in the target URL.
Administrative Features:
Developed as a standard Joomla 1.0.x component.
Easy to install and uninstall using Joomla's standard component management facilities; no need to manually replace files!
Does not require modifications to any Joomla core files.
Easy import function allows new URL entry quickly.
Full sample data included for a default installation of Joomla 1.0.x to get up and running quickly.
Easily publish/unpublish aliases with the click of a button.
Export alias database either as a human-readable text file or an SQL table dump.
Validation feature to check for broken target URL redirections.
Visit the OpenSEF site to download the component you can download it from the JoomlaSEO download database.
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