Jooomla: Is it SEO friendly?

I will come straight to the point.

The links that joomla creates for pages has Item And Content Id, instead of lets say Key-word links.

Wouldn't this bring down a few points???

I would like to know if there is anyway to overcome this.

Thanks in advance

 

I think their is a setting in the admin section where you can simply select SEO but I just installed it yesterday and I'm trying to figure out how it works first.

 

I installed it too, and I am still in the researching phase. Once I am absolutely certain that it can be made very SEO friendly, I will start devoting more time to it.

I will check the admin panel right away and see if they have something for SEO.

Thanks

 

You can change to dynamic pages in the global configuration, and change the htaccess.txt to .htaccess.

Then you can use components such as 404SEF or Open-SEF to control the user-friendly, SEO-friendly URLs. You can change the names of the links, etc.

 

Are these plugin's or extensions you mean? Sorry only installed it yesterday and trying to get familiar with it.

 

404SEF and OpenSEF are components that allow you to add "user friendly" URLs, yes.

However, by renaming htaccess.txt and enabling SEF in the global configuration, you get basic SEF straight away. Basically, each parameter variable that is normally added to the URL in the GET portion of the URL is made in to a directory, hence having the appearance of static pages (just in weirdly named directories).

But yeah, those others allow you assign, for example, /products/widget.html to a particular path.

I have a funny feeling that OpenSEF actually does part of this for you straight up, actually, by enabling you to go to something like /articles/articletitle.html automatically, but that's only a 'maybe'. I thought I read that somewhere...

 

good information..I'll try it tonight..thankyou.

 

Open SEF gives you some flexibility. You can have an URL that goes:

/section/category/title
/category/title
/title

It can add the name (the SEO friendly name) of your sections and categories, or you can leave them out.

I'd like to see something that could add the date, like in the format, 20060606, for example, so that Google News could pick up the URL.

 

Yes use open-sef.org, it will create urls like this
http://www.scriptmob.com/vbscript/vbscript_downloads/unlock_user_account_script.html

My site gets crawled by all major bots and I'm starting to see hits from the SE's, site is still new.

 

I use openSEF on my income taxes website and it works great. Haven't had any issues at all... so yeah, Joomla _can_ be SEF if you want it to be.

 

I use open sef and it works great. The only problem is if you have another component installed it needs to work with that component and in order to do that you need to have a sef_ext.php file to allow open sef to work with the component properly and create the search engine friendly urls that you want.