{"id":1613,"date":"2012-07-25T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/07\/25\/using-sef-urls\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:48:19","slug":"using-sef-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/using-sef-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Search Engine Friendly URLs in Joomla 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_seo-settings-search-engine-friendly-urls.gif\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"seo-settings-search-engine-friendly-urls\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <strong>Global Configuration<\/strong> settings of Joomla 3.0 is a set of <strong>SEO Settings<\/strong> that you can adjust. SEO stands for <em>Search Engine Optimization<\/em>, and configuring these parameters will allow you to change various settings about your site that some search engines may look at when crawling your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this tutorial, we\u2019ll look specifically at the <strong>Search Engine Friendly URLs<\/strong> setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To adjust your Joomla 3.0 SEF URL setting:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"article_list wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard\/\">Log into your Joomla 3.0 admin dashboard<\/a><\/li><li>In the left menu under the <strong>SYSTEM<\/strong> heading, click <strong>Global Configuration<\/strong><\/li><li>There are several tabs at the top: Site, System, Server, Permissions, Text Filters. Ensure you are on the <strong>Site<\/strong> tab by clicking on it.<\/li><li>On the right side of the page under the <strong>SEO Settings<\/strong> heading, find the <strong>Search Engine Friendly URLs<\/strong> setting. Select either Yes \/ No to adjust the value.<\/li><li>In the top left menu, click <strong>Save<\/strong> to save these changes. In our testing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/create-new-article\/\">we wrote an article<\/a> named <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>This is my first test article<\/em><\/span> and assigned it to the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Uncategorized<\/em><\/span> category. Below shows what the URL to this article looks like when we have the Search Engine Friendly URLs setting toggled to Yes \/ No:<br> <table class=\"article_table\"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Search Engine Friendly URLs \u2013 YES<\/th> <\/tr> <tr> <td> <pre class=\"code_block\">https:\/\/domain.com\/index.php\/2-<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">uncategorised<\/span>\/1-<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">this-is-my-first-test-article<\/span><\/pre> <\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <th>Search Engine Friendly URLs \u2013 NO<\/th> <\/tr> <tr> <td> <pre class=\"code_block\">https:\/\/domain.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1:<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">this-is-my-first-test-article<\/span>&amp;catid=2&amp;Itemid=101<\/pre> <\/td> <\/tr> <\/tbody> <\/table> <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Global Configuration settings of Joomla 3.0 is a set of SEO Settings that you can adjust. 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