mynet-info.com

This tutorial will show you how to enable the "Search Engine Friendly" URLs functionally of Joomla 1.5 application. When SEO is enable, your links will be in human-readable format and this will help your rank higher in search result. If you are looking for the perfect environment to create your Joomla website, you can check our Joomla hosting package.

Search Engine Optimization

To have the website better indexed by search engines such as Google and Yahoo, the pages have to be with meaningful names. That why siteground recommends using Joomla SEO functionally. Two enable SEO for your Joomla website, follow the steps below :

• Step 1. Enable mod_rewrite. Mod_rewrite is install on all Siteground servers and in order to enable the rewrite rules, you will have to rename the htaccess.txt file in your Joomla installation directory to :   .htaccess
• Step 2. Enable Joomla SEO functionally from site -> Global configuration in the admin panel.

• Step 3. In the SEO setting section change Search Engine Friendly URLs and Use Apache mod_rewrite to Yes.
• Step 4. Click on [Save] from the top right menu.

This will change the link to for example, 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/About_us

Original source : http://siteground.com