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[Stephen Britton]

Thank you Matt for the update on AceSEF. It can be difficult to keep track
of all these extension companies.


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Matt Thomas <matt at betweenbrain.com> wrote:

> Just a side note, AceSEF is now essentially replaced by MijoSEF. My
> understanding is that all of the developers at AceSEF left that company and
> started their own, due to differences of opinion... kind of like Mambo and
> Joomla. Since the split, service and support is much better, and they seem
> more open to new ideas and feature improvements.
>
> I do agree with Stephen about not using SEF extensions,
> and personally prefer not use them when I can. But, they do help resolve
> the inherent issue with Joomla having multiple URLs for the same page and
> do allow for more granular customization of non-menu item URLs.
>
> Best,
>
> Matt Thomas
> Founder betweenbrain <http://betweenbrain.com/>™
> Lead Developer Construct Template Development Framework<http://construct-framework.com/>
> Phone: 203.632.9322
> Twitter: @betweenbrain
> Github: https://github.com/betweenbrain
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Stephen Britton <sbritton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Head over to the JED and check out AceSEF and the classic sh404SEF.
>>
>> If you are using Joomla 2.5 and 3.0, I personally think the native
>> features work as well as any extension/plugin. You can manage meta
>> information and create SEF links without the extensions so why bother to
>> add more code to a system that is already in place.
>>
>> As for increasing performance, JBetolo works very well - it does things
>> like combine multiple CSS and JS files and can make your site download
>> faster (or at least appear like it does :-), But it is super easy to screw
>> up your site with JBertolo. It is not well documented and you have to
>> experiment. If you use JBetolo test  it first before moving it to
>> production.
>>
>> - - - Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Geoffrey Schaller <gjschaller at psi-13.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I've been working on improving my site's ranking, with a lot of help
>>> from this group - thank you all!
>>>
>>> One of the big things I did recently was get rid of an older component
>>> (JFusion) that had ugly URLs, and replaced it with something with more
>>> clean & friendly looking URLs (JoomGallery, instead of using JFusion to
>>> bridge to something else).  In addition, I've done a bunch with image
>>> optimization, etc. to help speed up the site, and other things recommended
>>> by PageSpeed.
>>>
>>> I'm now looking for a good SEO / SEF utility for Joomla.  I have Xmap
>>> installed already - I'm looking for something that will help with metadata,
>>> keywords, etc.
>>>
>>> I was looking at MijoSEF, which is free... but it breaks JoomGallery
>>> unless you pay for a plugin.
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend a good component?  Even if it's not free, if it's
>>> worth the money, that's a good thing!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Geoffrey Schaller
>>> gjschaller at psi-13.com
>>>
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>>
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>> Stephen Britton
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Stephen Britton
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Twitter: @StephenBritton
ph: 914-661-0040

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -
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