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With over 80% market share, sh404SEF is the most popular URL management Joomla extension. It is a widely used, reliable and trusted tool to optimize Joomla websites for maximum search engine ranking. The features of this component are as follows.

SEO features include:

• Allows viewing of Google Analytics dashboard in the Joomla administrative backend to keep a close eye on traffic volume and referral sites
• Helps removes duplicate URLs, a common problem with Joomla web sites
• Provides the shortest, most significant URLs for the site and the website rankings
• Generates 'human ear friendly' URLs
• Creates unlimited short URLs for any page
• Automatically generates tiny URLs for the content
• Allows the customization of the page title and page description
• Automatically emphasizes all the article titles with "Heading tags"
• Satisfies many of the Google recommendations for search engine optimization with just a few clicks

Security features:
The list of exploits sh404SEF helps protect from includes:

• cross-site scripting attacks (XSS)
• malicious page requests
• flooding attacks
• robots spamming input forms such as the contact page (using Project Honey Pot)
• site access from suspicious domains (using IP address white listing and black listing)
• identification of site software using the 'meta generator' tag

These security features can be activated irrespective of the URL re-writing features and hence are widely implemented by many users for security purposes only. Wide support by top Joomla extensions: Many of the most popular Joomla extensions currently support sh404SEF. Some of them are,

There are also numerous 3rd party plug-ins for the  sh404SEF. Improved standards and usability: Features which improve standards compliance and web development best-practices include, 

• automatically emphasize all article titles with "Heading tags"
• customized error pages with relevant links and other info
• automatically indicate the links on the site that lead to external sites with a small icon 
• automatically convert table-based output of core Joomla extensions to the preferred tableless HTML
• automaticaly detects visitors on mobile devices and switch templates

sh404SEF also ships with a comprehensive 404 error management solution. The three major features of our 404 solution are:

• create static URLs for your content
• suggest relevant URLs using SOS, our novel URL matching technology
• customize your error page to match the context of your web site

With all these features packed into the component, there is hardly any question as to why sh404SEF is the most popular and widely used URL management system.