Joomla and SEO...Does anyone know how to get Joomla permalinks to look like "pretty" WP links?

[Amber_Writes]

I've searched high and low on the internet, and I've seen plenty of sites that use them. But, for the life of me, I can't figure out the configuration for the Joomla permalinks. I hate the way Joomla looks out of the box, and it seems like it's more than just a plugin/mod that will do the trick.

Can someone offer some help here?

[TeamGlobal]

The link below may have some information that will be helpful to you.

Joomla SEO - Joomla Tutorials, SEO tools for Joomla - Home


All The Best,


Tony

[cr34t0r]

Originally Posted by TeamGlobal

The link below may have some information that will be helpful to you.



All The Best,


Tony

worthless answer.

real answer is. YOU CAN NOT(if you can please let me know, cause I want to know how to do it too :-] ) have pretty links in joomla. and it kinda sucks because of that. along with some other things that wordpress can do a lot nicer.
really all depends on the user who's using it. some of my clients are not as sophisticated and they want things to be simple, like wordpress. where they can edit, create pages with their own names (permalinks) without having to go through the whole joomla university to learn how to turn on search engine friendly links etc. which at the end of the day is still not the same as the pretty permalinks. :-P

[workson]

I don't know if you have already found a solution to your problem or given up on it, anyway, follow these steps to enable search engine friendly URL's for Joomla and it will resolve your problem, if you have any problems pm me for any other help with configuring your CMS.

1) Confirm that your web hosting company support's Apache and mod_rewrite.
( most web hosting providers do support this functionality )
2) Access your web host using an FTP client
3) Navigate to the root directory or Joomla installation directory.
4) Select the htaccess.txt file and rename it to .htaccess
5) Now Access the Joomla administrator console
6) Select the Global Configuration item.
7) Select the SEO tab
8) Enable Search Engine Friendly URLs
9) A popup box will now appear to confirm you have renamed the htaccess.txt to .htaccess
10) When you view your web the URL's will now look like http://www.site.com/content/view/1/2/ or http://www.domain.com/Section_Name/C...ame/Item_Name/

[BMboyz]

i got same problem too... n still finding the best solution..

[Nevis1]

My last site still in Joomla that I created needed this. Now I know why I switched to Wordpress.