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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enabling Joomla! SEF URLs


Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs are an effective way of improving the experience that customers have on your website at the same time as fine tuning the results that a search engine might generate. Add to the good news that it is a simple one minute job to set them up and it makes sense to enable them.

Have a look at the following two URLs:

  • Without SEF URLS

    Consider the link yourdomainname.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=18&Itemid=162 just as an example. These type of links are not so good because they have none of our keywords and it is confusing to read them.

  • With SEF URLS

    The link yourdomainname.co.uk/index.php/category-1/28-3-reasons-to-use-long-tail-keyword is good enough, as we can read the keywords.

  • In VirtueMart

    And lastly we have the link in the form yourdomainname/shop/powertools/outdoortools/chain-saw-detail. You can see how they are not only friendly to the search engines but also help your site be more intuitive...