search engine friendly

Mambo and SEF URLs

Submitted by Martin on Mon, 06/20/2005 - 13:14
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NB - this applied to Mambo before the Joomla developers forked off; I've read that Mambo has since included SEF URLs, tho maybe an imperfect method (I haven't tried). 

Mambo pages are compiled on the fly - as they're requested by
browsers, and their original URLs (addresses) reflect this: they're
stuffed with code, numbers, characters like "&". Looking like
gibberish to most humans, they can also be rather tough for search
engines to follow as they try navigating through sites.

There are, however, improved URLs: the search engine
friendly URLs, or SEF URLs. But these are by no means created equal;
I've found that some "SEF" URLs are friendlier than others. And with latest Mambo version - and with Joomla!, can get lots of Search Engine Unfriendly URLs (due to ItemIDs). Can be bit of nightmare, without care, trying to get truly SEF URLs - with one URL per item.

Joomla SEO

Submitted by Martin on Wed, 01/12/2005 - 20:28
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When it comes to making sites search engine friendly - ie Search Engine Optimization (SEO), so they are readily navigated and index by search engine spiders, and pages rank well in, say, Google, Yahoo and MSN Search, Joomla! has a few quirks that are maybe worth a little explanation: to me, rather suggest some of key folks behind Joomla are not really interested in creating websites.

Firstly, though, the essentials of optimising a Joomla! site for search engines are exactly as for all sites, and as I've briefly covered in Free advice on search engine optimization.

So, what are the quirks?

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