sh404SEF rewrites Joomla URL to a more user-friendly format for your site visitors.

sh404SEF rewrites Joomla URL to a more user-friendly format for your site visitors, as well as for search engines. It makes use of plugins to process the various components used in a site. Plugins for VirtueMart, Fireboard, Community Builder, iJoomla Magazine, and more are included.

It comes with shCustomTags, a module to build and insert in your pages titles and meta tags, insert h1 or h2 tags where needed, and much more

Features:
- Easy to use : a traditionnal operating mode using mod_rewrite and a .htaccess file, but also a new mode which does not require .htaccess file at all 
- Fast: sh404SEF has a dual URL cache : in memory and in the database. This reduces a lot the number of queries made to the database.
- Easy transition if your site currently has either no SEF URL, or uses standard Joomla SEF URL (URL similar to www.mysite.com/content/22/12/lang,en). If a search engine or a visitor requests a page using the old style address, because that is what is currently stored in Google or Yahoo, sh404SEF will automatically perform a 301 redirection to the new address. No need anymore to do this redirection manually in your .htaccess, no risk of damaging your search engines results.
- Works with Joomfish: translate URL and/or insert a language code. Either can be switched on or off in the backend, on a component by component basis. (tested also with the upcoming Joomfish 1.8 beta release)
- Integrated Title,Meta, Robots and language tags : automatic generation, plus manually entered tags on a URl by URL basis
- Duplicate content reduction : very few different URL for the same content. For instance, homepage will always be rewritten to www.mysite.com (or mysite.com). No more mysite.com/index.php, mysite.com/index.php?lang=en, mysite.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1, etc. Several parameters in the backend to manage Itemid if needed, but default settings work well in most cases.
- Custom plugins for main components, producing nice URLs. You'll have much control over the output of these sh404SEF plugins, as many parameters are available in the backend.
- Can use OpenSEF and SEF Advanced sef_ext plugins. No warranties, but tested on SOBI2, Bookmarks, Alphacontent and iJoomlaMagazine
- Can insert a unique numerical ID in content URL, for inclusion in services such as Google News. Can be switched on or off in the backend, for each category.
- Manage SSL switch, including using shared SSL. Very useful when using Virtuemart 404 errors logging. Can be turned off in the backend.
- Interface: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Hungarian, Russian, Dutch