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Trouble is, the wealth of different components means that its easy to get confused. Which one should I use? Should I pay? Should I use a free component?
Hopefully, these two charts will provide a complete comparison guide for the main five SEF URL components.
Please note:
SEF URL Component Comparison
SEF URL Components and Comptabile Extensions
Comments (5)
  written by Jacky Supit, December 28, 2007
This article is so great.
thanks for your effort to create this comparison. I have spent weeks to find what is the best cms for me since I am going to create a forum and i need a good cms with a good seo performance. thank you so much for this article. and Yes Julien, you're right, the SH404SEF craetor deserve to get some donations for his/her work. thank you guys. and thank you Puthzel (if you read this), your recomendation on adsense-sby forum brought me here. thanks written by Jacky Supit, December 28, 2007
alledia,
what seo extention you use on this site? thanks  written by trichnosis, January 02, 2008
@jacky: i think alledi is using SEFAdvance for the sef urls
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We've long talked about how important it is to use a Search Engine Friendly URL component with Joomla. The best ones don't just create human-readable addresses but also help your site in many other areas of SEO.
I have tried all the free ones and used to use Open SEF, and SH404SEF is by far one of the best. It offers lots of option but yet simple to set. The options are very simple to understand.
Also the support in the forum of SH404SEF is excellent. The developer deserve huge donation for doing such a great job.
***** one more thing ******
there is one more thing not showing in the comparison table above is the number of queries done by the component is almost the same as without the component (see http://extensions.siliana.net/...ccess.html)
Which is a major asset when talking about speed. As we al know the more SQL queries the slower joomla! will be. Especially when you, most users and myself included are hosting our site on a shared server where don't have lots of RAM and CPU resources.
This components coupled with PageCache and QueryCache; and you have a nice cocktail to put your joomla site on speed with nice SEF URLs.
Unless you want to spend money, SH404SEF is "THE" component to use to get SEF URLs. But it does not stop you from giving a small donation
ps: i am not part of the dev. team, just a user who had a great experience with SH404SEF