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Joomla 1.5 is definitely going to bring some SEO benefits in the core, including better URLs and no-follow on some key links such as PDFs.

This means that for more complex SEO efforts we'll still be relying on extra components. The first one out of the block is likely to be from Richard of Joomlatwork.com, who developed the SEF Patch and who used to be on the OpenSEF team.

In the fine tradition of OpenSEF, Richard has revealed that the component won't simply produce Search Engine Friendly URLs, but will be a multi-purpose SEO machine:

"We have made a 'roadmap' for the URL rewriting tools based on SEO needed aspects. Examples of the functionalities we want to develop are:

• Generating a Google sitemap, therefor you will need an admin tool to manage your urls and the URLs need to be stored within a table.
• Fetching incoming traffic that is from search engines: fetching the keywords how the pages is found and related this to the URL repository and generated reports about this and based on these statistic adjust 'bad' ranking URL's based on the incoming traffic statistics.
• Enabling custom redirects or modules based on the incoming traffic of search engines. Example some one seek for red roses for which he has an hi ranking in Google, but when the visitors comes on his site he also wants to show alternative pages links (for example in a module).
• Reporting modules for the google Adwords (tracking the incoming traffic)
• Enabling 301 redirects in stead of showing a 404 page which removes the pages from the search engine indexes."
  

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Comments (5)

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written by Good Web Practices, October 24, 2007

Glad to hear that the SEO patch will be improved in 1.5. It's great that Richard is working on a component for the new release. Nevertheless, it doesn't sound like any of these will solve the automapping problem, which is a disappointment. From the SEO point of view, everything still seems to be encouraging us to develop in 1.13 rather than 1.5...

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written by Zorro, October 25, 2007

Nevertheless, it doesn't sound like any of these will solve the automapping problem

GWP, what makes you think so? I would suppose that Richard is very well aware of the importance of automapping and probably has the solution already laid out before him.

Kind regards,
Zorro

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written by Good Web Practices, October 25, 2007

Zorro, without there being mention to it, I just jumped to that conclusion the automapping problem wouldn't be solved in his first release... But as the list above is a list of examples they want to deal with, hopefully they will deal with the issue in the first release. In any case I'm sure it will be dealt with in due time, and hope that as you metioned, he has the solution laid out before him already!

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written by trichnosis, November 07, 2007

J!1.5 has made great sef improvement . it has a better seo than J1.0.x but it's not as good as i expect. i'm waiting for this . i'm waiting them to launch their component. i will start to use the J!1.5 after they lauch this component

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written by tekno_boy, January 06, 2008

I'm new to Joomla and love it, I'm sick of template systems that don't work and how a non Joomla site become difficult to manage if it gets big.

I just wish SEO was a little easier (in general), I'm still struggling with it. Thanks for you insights.

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