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		<title>When to Use a SEF Component</title>
		<description>Discuss When to Use a SEF Component</description>
		<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/</link>
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			<title>Klaus Nitsche says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-8524</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Stefan, when did you activate SEF? Maybe it takes Google a little more time to see the new URLs. Do you use built-in SEF, or a component such as sh404SEF? Are you sure the old URLs get 301-redirected to the new SEF URLs? Kind regards, Zorro]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Klaus Nitsche</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Stefan Andonov says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-8523</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi all... I already send my question to Klaus hoping he can share some light on it, since I really don't have a clue how to solve this issue. I will post my problem here hoping that maybe some of you can help me with this problem. Hi, Everything was fine when applying the SEF option. My URL looks like this now: http://www.tratschstadt.de/Tratsch/Kate-Moss-wieder-schwanger.html But when I search on Google for Kate Moss wieder schwanger the Google Result looks like this: Tratsch Stadt - Kate Moss wieder schwanger - [ Translate this page ] Das kontroverse Model Kate Moss und ihr Freund Jamie Hintz werden wahrscheinlich Eltern im august dieses Jahres, wie die britischen Medien berichten. ... www.tratschstadt.de/index.php?option=com...task... - Cached - Similar As you can see above the result looks like: www.tratschstadt.de/index.php?option=com...task.. ... and not as the actual SEF URL. Why is that? How can this be changed? When I click the link I still get to the correct SEF URL, but the result shown back from google is different. Can you please help me with this issue? I don't know what else to try. Thanks in advance, Stefan]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Stefan Andonov</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-8523</guid>
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			<title>Klaus Nitsche says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7969</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Matthew, your start page's PR (5 is very neat for only 7 months, congratulations ) doesn't have anything to do with Joomla's general SEO capabilities. Often it is better to have strong individual content pages, e.g. for products. And that is where Joomla's catastrophic behaviour of creating multiple URLs is really damaging. Instead of requiring users to manually block multiple entries as you do, it is usually the job of the core to provide consistent URLs. This is an old Mambo heritage. The very concept of ItemID (assigning an URL depending on menu entries) is inherently flawed. I hope Joomla will do away with it in a future version. Kind regards, Zorro]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Klaus Nitsche</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7969</guid>
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			<title>Matthew Murphy says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7966</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Klaus Nitsche can you explain a little more on this? Too bad that Joomla core still does not care about those essentials in 1.5. Other CMS are light years ahead in this respect. I have a almost 7 month old site, its always used core and I am a PR5 with google. JoomlaMafia.com When I randomly check googles indexed pages, i just use robots.txt to block double indexed pages if i happen to have any, Most people I don't think understand how to link to articles even more so when using menu items and having multiple menu items link to same article/section etc, your supposed to use Alias.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Matthew Murphy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7966</guid>
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			<title>Makis says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7964</link>
			<description><![CDATA[great resources from all of you, i just want to add that multilingual joomla websites made with joomfish suffer from seo since when installed on an english website like http://www.mysite.com it changes home page as http://www.mysite.com/en even if default language is English. Last but not least almost all sitemap components(the ones i ve tried) have problem in creating the homepage sitempa, instead of / they put /home. All this stuff make seo components look as the only solution for all this problems. If you add up the non latin characters which Joomla doesnt accept for the alias plus the dupilcate content that may be created they you ll get a heavily non friendly seo website to work with. For multilanguage websites i m trying setting up a complete new website with the same content, design, template only with the translated language, then put a mod with some flag png's on the main website and direct the translation flag to the new website. If you have mydomain.com in english and you want to have a greek translation then the best option for seo is to go with mydomain.gr, next option is gr.mydomain.com and last option is mydomain.com/gr]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Makis</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7964</guid>
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			<title>Steve Burge says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7963</link>
			<description><![CDATA[SmartMtK - thanks, that's a great point and I'll add it. Thanks Jack too, another good example.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Steve Burge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7963</guid>
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			<title>Jack Bremer says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7961</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I think that SH404SEF is fantastic - it allows me to roll out a microsite in seconds without creating links to every page and assigning a new template - simply assign the template to one menu item (homepage of microsite) and then just access each subsequent page using the itemid of that menu item - hey presto, clean SEF URLs, with the appropriate template applied automagically! Would be great if you could use it for completely custom redirects though, to other sites or where-ever - I still have to use .htaccess for that...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jack Bremer</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7961</guid>
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			<title>SmartMtK says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7960</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ well, not sure it is the right/correct thing to do, but the built-in J!SEF feature does not allow non-Latin characters in the alias field, it will be converted into the publishing date (therefor the URL will will look something like: http://www.site.com/01-01-2009-00-00.html) An SEF Component such as sh404SEF will allow using non-Latin title as the URL. (for better or for worse, that's for you to decide)]]></description>
			<dc:creator>SmartMtK</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Klaus Nitsche says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7959</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Definitely with you on this, Steve. Too bad that Joomla core still does not care about those essentials in 1.5. Other CMS are light years ahead in this respect. Come to think of it, did anything ever come out of http://www.alledia.com/blog/open-questions/open-question:-seo-changes-in-joomla-1.6/ ? Is there a chance that we can expect better URL behaviour in 1.6? @Barrie: Yannick Gaultier was thoughtful enough to provide a migration path from OpenSEF to sh404SEF. I made the switch on about 10 sites and it went flawlessly, I noticed no drop in traffic at all. Still, I agree that it would be better if the core took care of these things without creating multiple URLs. Kind regards, Zorro]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Klaus Nitsche</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Steve Burge says:</title>
			<link>http://www.alledia.com/blog/joomla-urls/when-to-use-a-sef-component/#comment-7957</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hey Evan - don't worry too much about that. / is a little better than .html but its certainly not worth changing.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Steve Burge</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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