Best Joomla SEO Extensions?
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My website is a Joomla based website. My designer is good, but I don't think he knows that much about SEO . . . so I doubt if he added any extensions that can assist with SEO. I assume there are some good ones that can help my site.
Does anyone know what/which Joomla extensions are must haves?
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Thanks! I downloaded the paid version of JoomSEF... the free version includes a link in the footer... kinda tacky for a client's website. The paid version was only $35.57 USD. So... crossing fingers.. here goes nothing!
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According to CodeCanyon... the Smart SEO plugin is only valid up to Joomla version 2.5 (as of 1 month ago). Looks like JCH Optimize is for only for speed optimization.
Still looking for a good SEO plugin for Joomla. My client does not want to convert to Wordpress (even though they aren't selling any products, just service based org).
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Hey Shivun,
I've been using the "SmartSEO" plugin for ~2 years and I love it. I think it cost like 10 bucks.. It simply gives you frontend access to edit meta data when you're logged in as superadmin. Saved me countless hours.
I also just this week installed "JCH Optimize" plugin which decreased load time nicely, a common problem when you run a Joomla site with bells and whistles.. The standard GZip and other plugins that do this would always break some part of my site, but JCH had enough options that when I tweaked em just right I reduced load time by about 30% without breaking anything.
Danny
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Hi Everyone
I see this post regarding the best joomla extensions available on the market, As the post is dated now I thought I'd ask the question. Currently what are the best seo extensions for Joomla? Anything anyone can recommend?
shivun
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Hi!
I work a lot with Joomla and my company also use Joomla CMS. We have tried several SEO components for Joomla and SH404Sef is without a doubt the best choice. SH404Sef gives you a lot of options to work with. It can be a bit hard in the beginning, but when you learn it you will never change.
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There's a beta version of sh404sef for joomla 1.6 now (if that's what you're using).
Having said that, if you can move to joomla 1.6 you'll find they've made some effort to make it much more sef than 1.5 - though I did have to do some tweaks to get a canonical tag in there. I'll be using the sh404sef when it's out of beta to avoid fiddling around with menus to create clean urls.
Agree with Damon on the components - if you're using them then check compatibility with whatever SEO extension you use (if you use one that is)
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Hi Damon,
I have experience with two joomla components for SEO
- SH404sef, Its commercial http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef/10134
- Joomsef its Free http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef/1063
The most important thing with these components, its to double check compatibility between these components and other components that you have installed. For example Joomsef might not rewrite the urls for Jevents components for example. (this is an example, might not be true)
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