We’re writing this soon after the release of version 3.8 of the powerful Joomla [tipso tip=”Content Management System”]CMS[/tipso]. Joomla 3.8 carries a new feature which is especially interesting for [tipso tip=”Search Engine Optimization”]SEO[/tipso] purposes: a new structure for your web pages addresses, the so-called [tipso=”Uniform Resource Locator”]URL[/tipso], which will be more meaningful to both people and search engines.

Joomla already had some [tipso tip=”Search Engine Friendly”] SEF[/tipso] features, but native SEO features are not enough for advanced SEO and needed to be integrated via additional software (components and extensions), like sh404SEF or MijoSEF.

SEOs have long waited for a better URLs control with Joomla: they often preferred to use WordPress, in order to have greater flexibility  in this regard.

To better understand the possibilities offered by the last update for Joomla, we take a sample URL generated by the previous versions of Joomla:

https://www.deltamatica.it/category/123-my-article

where 123 is the content (article) ID code.

With the new routing system, we are able to get the following simplified address:

https://www.deltamatica.it/category/my-article

How to activate the new Joomla URLs: Read more