Advanced options in Joomla 1.5: SEF URLs

Search engine optimization

To have the website better indexed by the search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, the pages have to be with meaningful names. That's why we will use the Joomla's SEO feature.

It can be enabled from Site -> Global configuration in the admin panel.

In this page you can change the Metadata Settings about your site along with other useful information. Though we are interested rather in the left part - "SEO Settings" and we will change "Search Engine Friendly URLs" to Yes. After that we will click on [Save] from the top right menu.

For example, this will change the link to the "About us" page from:

http://your_domain_name.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=2

to

http://your_domain_name.com/index.php/About us (yes, that's right with the blank space)