Joomla SEF Component

Now that we have the basic Joomla SEO working, it is time for you to take the next step..

Installing a Component that makes even better URL’s, the ones that read like http://www.pathos-seo.com/seo-for-your-website/ibp-seo-search-engine-optimization-software.html 
Or just http://www.pathos-seo.com/seo-for-your-website/ .

Now that is what I call user and search engine friendly, it is easy to read en has most of the keywords in the URL itself.

But how do You get your Joomla pages to read like that?
By using a Joomla SEF Component that will do that for you.
But wich one? I can name three withour going to the Joomla extension site:

• SEF Advanced (Commercial)
• ArtioSEF (Free)
• Remosef (Free)
• Open-Sef (Free)

My Choice? I tested them all, but “There can be only one” (Quote Highlander) and for me that is Open-Sef.

How to install?
Simpel, just a few easy steps:
Download Open-Sef Joomla SEF Component
Install it like a normal Component via your Administrator Panel.
Go to the component section and configure it the way You want it to work.

Change you .htaccess to work with a Third party component, it then would look probably like this:
—————————————————————————–

#  mod_rewrite in use

RewriteEngine On

#  Uncomment following line if your webserver’s URL
#  is not directly related to physical file paths.
#  Update Your Joomla/MamboDirectory (just / for root)

# RewriteBase / 

########## Begin – 3rd Party SEF Section
############# Use this section if you are using a 3rd party (Non Joomla! core) SEF extension – e.g. OpenSEF, 404_SEF, 404SEFx, SEF Advance, etc
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR]   ##optional – see notes##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.htm|\.php|\.html|/[^.]*)$  [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
#
########## End – 3rd Party SEF Section

########## Begin – Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits
## If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below
## This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!
#                             
# Block out any script trying to set a mosConfig value through the URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to base64_encode crap to send via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*\(.*\) [OR]
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
# Send all blocked request to homepage with 403 Forbidden error!
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
#
########## End – Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits

You can put this in a htaccess.txt, save the file upload it via FTP. and then rename is to .htaccess again.

If you have Joomla installed in a subdirectory, don’t forget to Uncomment and change the RewriteBase!

Now You are ready to Activate The Open-Sef component.

Tip! In the SEF Configuration part of Open-Sef Choose the Content URL Structure: /Category/Title/ 
This will give you a URL for Search Engines that is no more then Three clicks deep

If You get 500 or 404 Errors after activation of Open-Sef, check you .htaccess !! most of the problems are related to that file….

Next Time: Sitemaps in Joomla, how to make them and to Submit them to Google.

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