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Yannick,
Always looking at simplifying and reducing loads on the server, I wanted to revisit this question now that 4SEO has been under development for a while now. Do I need to use sh404SEF anymore or does 4SEO do the important stuff now and make sh404SEF rather redundant?
Best regards,
Russell Thomas
Hi
sh404SEF does your SEF URLs. If you remove it, all the URLs on your site are going to change - and revert back to their Joomla SEF equivalent, meaning:
- there will be a loss in ranking when you change your URLs, at least until such time Google crawl the site and update their index. It's not possible to predict the effect of this, it depends on your site, how many URLs you have, etc
- 4SEO latest version has a new feature which automatically redirects sh404SEF addresses to their Joomla SEF version. This tells Google the address has changed and they will update their index much more quickly. You can still experience a drop in ranking and then recover, but it should be pretty quick.
So it's up to you to decide and make that change. If you have a smallish site, a few dozens or a couple hundred pages, with the redirects in place, it should be ok. On larger site, it might take more times but again, the actual effects is not really possible to predict. In all cases, redirects from old URLs to new URLs are needed.
Also,
- if you have things like custom redirects or custom canonicals, you will need to re-create them in 4SEO.
- if you have customized URLs, you won't be able to do that in 4SEO
- if you have custom meta data in sh404SEF, that won't be carried over to 4SEO. This is planned but not done yet.
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr
Thanks again for your detailed answer it was appreciated. Just for your information, I have jumped to page 3 from pages 7-10 historically since I started using 4SEO, thank you!
Best regards,
Russell Thomas
Hi
I have jumped to page 3 from pages 7-10 historically since I started using 4SEO, thank you!
Now that's great ! I'm sure 4SEO is not the only thing here, but all the small things add up in SEO!!! There are many more things to come in the future for 4SEO, hopefully they can help getting you even higher!
Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed. If you do so, please mention this ticket number in the new one.
And please feel free to post a review on the JED , it helps and we appreciate it!
Best regards
Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com / @weeblr