Joomla 1.5 and SEO Components

Written by Steve Burge

Joomla 1.5 is now two weeks old and more compatible components are being released every day. For those of you interested in SEO, I thought I might write a short post about the status of SEO components for 1.5:

SEF Components Available for 1.5

Smart SEF. This solution for improving URLs on 1.5 was created by the team behind Joomlatwork.com and one of OpenSEF's former developers. They have a demo online and a Release Candidate available for download. I'm currently testing this and should have a review ready for later this week.

SEF Patch. This is very similar to Joomlatwork's high-quality patch for 1.0. It allows much greater control over Joomla metadata and is available for free downloading.

The Status of Other SEF URL Components

sh404SEF. This is very clearly the best SEF URL component available for 1.0. Its nearest rivals are Artio and SEF Advance, but both are weaker products and cost $43 and $60 per site respectively. However, I don't think Yannick has decided whether or not to rewrite sh404SEF for 1.5.

SEF Advance. A version for 1.5 should be available in the next few days.

Artio SEF. Due sometime in February.

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Your Comments (3)

Klaus Nitsche

February 04, 2008

I've tested SmartSEF beta myself on a local 1.5 install and it seems to work just fine.

It doesn't have all the shiny features that we're used to from OpenSEF or sh404SEF but I think it will grow over time - Richard is very dedicated about it. Looks very good so far.

Kind regards,
Zorro