About Joomla SEO and SEF

I have found Joomla SEO and SEF to be rather difficult to take in because there are so many components out there to do these optimization jobs. This blog is intended to bring beginners up to speed on the concepts of SEO and SEF but also direct people to the correct resources for more learning. There is already a huge amount of information out there, so I don't want to re-invent the wheel. But I have to say there isn't any one resource that pulls this all together. While I intend to be this hub for you, I still need to run my business Joomla Packages which provides Advanced Joomla systems, so updates to this blog may be random. Grab the rss feed for updates.
What prompted me to write about Joomla SEO and SEF was the lack of documentation that was around for this. I found myself spending a huge amount of time in the forum looking for information on all of this and recognized that there wasn't any one resource I could count on. So here's my attempt folks at giving you the best resource about SEO and SEF that I can muster.

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Where Can I Find OpenSEF?

So the big guy on the block in Joomla SEF, OpenSEF, has now gone missing. He got up and left and told nobody. Now some sites like http://www.alledia.com's OpenSEF Review , which is rather good, will give you the wrong url for OpenSEF, presenting is as J-Prosolution.com, and it used to be there (that is where I initially downloaded it to use in all of our packages), but I looked today to get the latest version and it was missing. It turns out that OpenSEF has been abandoned by the initial developers, and perhaps rightly so, it had turned into a rather large application in itself. The work must have been very time consuming, and when you're working with open source, free software rarely pays the bills.
Good thing though. OpenSEF was such a great Joomla component that another group of people picked it up and continued developmet. The new link (until they get tired of it) can be found at http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/nusef/. They Changed the name to nuSEF (pronouced "new" ess -e -eff). This is novel and noble of them and their attempts to keep OpenSEF going under a new name but at the same time it was a bit confusing. But hopfully this post can help others, social bookmark it if it fits your adgenda, help others find OpenSEF. Special thanks to Marko Schmuck and his team of developers for refreshing OpenSEF under nuSEF. Now the question, "Where Can I Find OpenSEF?" may finally be answered.


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