How Can I Make The Joomla Urls Friendly To Search Engines?

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1. Shruti K 2 says:

   July 18, 2009 at 3:12 pm

   You may contact a joomla expert live at website like http://sarkiswebdesign.com/ ,etc .
2. JIM says:

   July 18, 2009 at 12:21 pm

   When you submit your site’s url to Google, they check out the site (eventually) but the url itself is irrelevant except as a signpost to the site. Not sure what you mean by making a url “friendly”
3. Draper says:

   July 18, 2009 at 7:05 am

   (1). Create a new file called .htaccess — be sure to have the “.” in front.
   (2). Copy and paste this code into your new file:
   [R=301,L]
   ##
   # @version $Id: htaccess.txt 4094 2006-06-21 18:35:46Z stingrey $
   # @package Joomla
   # @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2006 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
   # @license GNU/GPL
   # Joomla! is Free Software
   ##
   ######################################…
   # READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE
   #
   # The line just below this section: ‘Options +FollowSymLinks’ may cause problems
   # with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already
   # be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in
   # your .htaccess file. If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to
   # beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url’s. If they work,
   # it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.
   #
   # Only use one of the two SEF sections that follow. Lines that can be uncommented
   # (and thus used) have only one #. Lines with two #’s should not be uncommented
   # In the section that you don’t use, all lines should start with #
   #
   ######################################…
   ##### SOLVING PROBLEMS WITH COMPONENT URL’s that don’t work #####
   # SPECIAL NOTE FOR SMF USERS WHEN SMF IS INTEGRATED AND BRIDGED
   # OR ANY SITUATION WHERE A COMPONENT’s URL’s AREN’t WORKING
   #
   # In both the ‘Standard SEF’, and ‘3rd Party or Core SEF’ sections the line:
   # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
   # May need to be uncommented. If you are running your Joomla from
   # a subdirectory the name of the subdirectory will need to be inserted into this
   # line. For example, if your Joomla is in a subdirectory called ‘/test/’,
   # change this:
   # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
   # to this:
   # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/test/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
   #
   ######################################…
   ## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.
   Options +FollowSymLinks
   #
   # mod_rewrite in use
   RewriteEngine On
   # Uncomment following line if your webserver’s URL
   # is not directly related to physical file paths.
   # Update Your Joomla Directory (just / for root)
   # RewriteBase /
   ########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section
   ############# Use this section if you are using a 3rd party (Non Joomla! core) SEF extension - e.g. OpenSEF, 404_SEF, 404SEFx, SEF Advance, etc
   #
   #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(/component/option,com) [NC,OR] ##optional - see notes##
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|.atom|.rss|.htm|.php|.pdf|.html… [NC]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule (.*) index.php
   #
   ########## End - Joomla! core SEF SectionRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}
   (3). Save the file
   (4). Erase htaccess.txt
   (5). Turn on the SEO tools on the Global Configuration.